Changing all interior lighting to blue. Help?

by **TRD-SOLARA99** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:35 am

Has anyone done this? I am a bit confused on what to buy and how to install it. I don't know what type of leds I need to buy?

by **RichD978** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:02 am

Use search foo

by **that1mexguy** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:23 am

has it been done before? yes.. someone took the time to write a whole tutorial on it, take a few mins to look for it

and welcome to SolaraGuy!!!

:drinking:

by **bassthrive** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:13 pm

that1mexguy wrote:has it been done before? yes.. someone took the time to write a whole tutorial on it, take a few mins to look for it and welcome to SolaraGuy!!!

Model response mex, im tired of seeing noobs flame noobs...

by **1st Gen Sol** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:06 pm

^^^^ lol...

by **Astro** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:22 pm

Check this thread out...
Complete Lighting guide for Gen1 and Gen1.5.

You should also hit up the Introductions

by **arch.HI** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:39 pm

Took these after I did the HVAC controls with 3mm LED's. I haven't done the clock, ignition, or shifter yet.

by **nguyenSTX** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:41 am

I put in a 10mm blue led in the ignition

looks alot better and brighter then the regular blue bulb i had it there before. Also the reg blue bulbs behind the fan/heat control area isn't bright enough. So i ghetto rigged 9 5mm leds in it, i'm put 3 more in later for each nob. :drinking:

by **Jon11582** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:51 am

nguyenSTX wrote:I put in a 10mm blue led in the ignition looks alot better and brighter then the regular blue bulb i had it there before. Also the reg blue bulbs behind the fan/heat control area isn't bright enough. So i ghetto rigged 9 5mm leds in it, i'm put 3 more in later for each nob.

Wanna write up a tutorial on the ignition and the HVAC? Do you need to rig up an inverter/resistor or does the 10mm wire right in?

Id also like to see a tutorial for the 3mm's in the HVAC buttons from the Camry above.

by **xsolara33x** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:08 am

a tutorial for the leds would be nice bro... hehe...
raphael

by **bassthrive** » Sun May 08, 2005 1:17 pm

ditto, tutorial on the hvac, especially the buttons would be great.

by **SleeperSolara** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:33 am

bassthrive wrote:ditto, tutorial on the hvac, especially the buttons would be great.

I second that.
I was goin to do the HVAC controls LED's white.
But blue looks tight.

by **RichD978** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:42 am

we will all praise you for writing up a DIY for the HVAC controls

by **1st Gen Sol** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:25 pm

Feelen the blue...........

by **arch.HI** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:40 pm

I've been meaning to post a how-to but I been short on free time. I don't have any process pics but I can describe what I did. I ordered the 3mm blue LED's from e-bay I think a set of 10 for about $2 and if you "buy it now" he throws in 10 resistors for a 12v system.

I soldered a resistor to the LED then used heat shrink on one lead so they won't short. Basically it involves a lot of trial and error just to get the right fitment. I could only replace the main bulbs in the two outside buttons, not the small on/off lights at the top of the buttons. You just wire the LED's and resistors the same way the bulbs were wired with the leads through the little "hats". The on/off light in the a/c button on the left is a LED but I couldn't open it up to change it. And the on/off light in the right defroster button is a small bulb but there wasn't room to wire in another LED.

For the center button for those who have it (the fresh/recirc button) there are two small LED's that can be replaced. These are easy to replace, just solder two new LED's to the board.

Remember LED's do have a positive and negative so you might have to test it a couple of times. The resistor also has to be wired on the right lead you can test it on a 9v battery to be sure.

Changing all interior lighting to blue. Help?

Changing all interior lighting to blue. Help?

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