LED swap! color change green to blue (in progress)

can you not use a colored filter for the radio leds.
because they are so many?
some sort of color bleu that wil filter out the green and give a nice bleu finisch.
maybe just light bleu plastic transparent sheet

 

yes i now thats wy i told you "maybe"
you have to check and google for color mixing.

 

Think of the color filter that you want to use as a Band Pass Filter, meaning it will only pass frequencies that are in between the upper and lower limits of the filter.
For a Blue filter to work effectively, the source illumination has to be white. The blue component would come through fine, but it would block the other colors.
Now in your case, trying to shove a green light, which has very little to no blue content, it would just not work! It would look crappy. As hard as it is, changing the LEDs is the only way to achieve the spectacular color results you see in the photos!

 

Ah, the blue looks awesome! If you were closer (and I had a spare chunk of change), I might ask you to mod mine the same way. Can't wait to see what the radio looks like. The green was the only thing I didn't like when I saw the interior for the first time. A simple color change would have made it look so much less cheap, IMO.

 

How about the power button? Or that just a bad idea to take that apart?

 

Congrats on the work. I just pull my stereo, navigation, apart those are some tiny LEDs. Any tips on changing them? I work on copiers, we pretty much just replace the boards, but I have some soldering experience.

 

was it hard to change the colors from blue to green? did u have to actually use a soldering gun?

 

This is sexy. I don't get why Toyota hasn't upgraded their ugly green color to blue. Sigh I really wanna do this, but theres no way I'm taking my car apart! Looks great though! Awesome job!

 

I haven't had to drive my Three at night until this week, and I only just realized that my steering wheel controls don't have any illumination. Where did you get the lighted controls you used?

 

My mother always told me I was special, but I never really believed her until now...

Seriously, is this perhaps a difference between the One/Two and Three/Four? All my other control lights are the same as yours, but according to the specs in the brochure the two lower trims don't have the Touch Tracer display or voice recognition (voice is triggered by the button which would be in the blank spot above the phone controls in your photos).



The touch tracer display comes on at the lightest touch of any of the steering wheel controls, showing which button you're touching; it needs a harder press of a button to actually change the setting.



Presumably the idea is that you don't have to look down at the steering wheel to see which button you're pressing, so perhaps Toyota thought you then wouldn't need the illumination to find the right button at night.

Could someone else with a Three or Four check if their steering wheel buttons light up, please.

 

Yeah, I really like the way those blue LEDs look on your wheel!

How easy is it to pop the boards out of there?

 

I see it here: JDM Prius Steering Wheel, but I don't really want to mess with the airbag.