The Amber backlighting color on the current Scions are just plain ugly. Why even offer a blue or red under the dash lighting for a couple of hundred dollars if the dashboard is going to be a different color? Why offer a radio head unit that changes colors or is blue if the dashboard is just plain amber? Volkswagon Jettas and Mazda 3s come with blue dashboard lighting and it looks pretty good. Supposedly Volkswagon's blue is is the same blue used on airport runways, is easy to discern and very easy on the eyes. If people are tearing apart their dashboards and soldering in blue LEDs themselves to get the blue lighting, obviously people want this bad enough:
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When they do this themselves they risk damaging the guages or making them inaccurate, or making them less reliable, or causing a wiring problem which can start a fire which is not a good thing. Please make a better factory standard backlighting, or at least offer other colors as an option.

 

Already got mine. Looky how purdy....



Scion should give this as an option or just make it standard.

 

nice

 

the new mitsubishi eclipse has an ice blue dashboard backlighting

 

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the amber either. Blue would be VERY nice.

 

Where did you get your LEDS from? I heard the blue LEDS come out very dim. Yours looks pretty bright to me. Please let me know.

 

I would actually love to see the same type of user selectable backlighting that is on the new ford mustang, that way you would be able to change the color to suit your mood.

it would be perfect for scion's 'customizable' image and probably be a huge selling point for most of the potential buyer base!

 

that looks really damn good....i would jump on the chance to get blue blacklights

 

blue or red standard would be nice.

 

Scion has to be reading this!

 

How does that idea sound to you? |)

 

wow i want. a lot.

 

great idea

 

Should have been done right the first time.