Since it is for my own car I decided to go with something simple, oem looking yet STANDS OUT! And of course since I am one of the led super swappers I can always change it
After taking apart the cluster, the tach section of the XD is tinted orange on the face itself. Not much you can do here but use red leds and make it red / or produce new gauge faces. I plan to make my own faces of high quality / and non expensive / fast turn around as I have been working on a few things I will be specifically producing them for the xd only at this time since I just bought one and love the car!
Well enough of my disgruntled babble, the point is for tonight’s swap, I had to use the oem face. So I thought what the heck, red and blue turn out HOT on tC's so why not do that theme here? Well long story short, the needles turned out WICKED! They look like blue lasers almost haha. And the red, well as anyone that has seen an led swap before will know, cameras NEVER do the work justice. So I did blue needles, red faces and blue fuel / trip comp screens. Blinkers & cruise are set to blue and all warning lights in red. Turned out GREAT! The XD cluster is so cool as it has a coating over the face of it that looks black, yet transfers light like it is not even over the face of the gauges. Very cool stuff. Think 3m makes it.
Bah, on to the pics. As stated, not the most wild work I can do by far but I think it looks very cool. Camera just does not show it right! The red is RED and the blue is BLUE! and it is freakin bright!
Will have a price soon for the swap, there are more friggen leds just for the face of the xD cluster than light up the tach, speedo, fuel and temp on the tC! 17 leds for just the speedo, tach, needle area vs 12 for the tC!
I would as well... just doesn't look as nice as colored numbers coming out of a mostly-black dash...
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Next mods reminder list (cause I'll forget!)
Lighting revamp (in progress...)
Window tints
That's about it... I know, but it's a family car!
Hey, do we know how many LEDs are behind the HVAC controls on the xD yet? I'm lookin to order some LEDs to do my swap here pretty soon... I can't STAND that awful orange/amber color...
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Next mods reminder list (cause I'll forget!)
Lighting revamp (in progress...)
Window tints
That's about it... I know, but it's a family car!
This looks amazing! I dont think I could dislike a dash lighting color more than amber.
I have never considered doing a led swap before. Is it fairly simple once you have the dash unassembled? It sounds like the xD is more work than others, but should I just check the other forum?
I would love to see pics of the process you went through to change it. If that is possible at all. A buddy of mine just bought a new xB this week and dislikes the amber as well. I am thinking this could be a weekend project.
well coming from another gauge swapper, that looks tite, i have 2 that want swaps, my girlfriends xD and my friends wife's xD, so its nice to know "IT CAN BE DONE". Was it easy to take apart, i went as far as just taking out the bezel on my GF's car. Looks sweet man.. share the knowledge
1ST LED SWAP ON AN XD COMPLETED! WOOT!
