radio:
there are pictures on the other pages... look thru the article
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=84661

steering wheel controls:
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=91321
more than just prying.

 

good job, now i just need to find the ***** to do it!

 

<< Owns a set of those *****, I can swap your stuff anytime!

 

<---- me and her are thinking about you doing the swap

where are you located?

 

I am located in Arizona. I do a ton of mail order and would be happy to rock your gauges for ya!

 

pm'd you

 

yeah...I am not really good with soldering...I tend to make a mess...who is making these kits installed to buy?

 

knowone makes a "kit". You have to send it to one of these LED gods on here and they do the swap for you.

 

if we swap out the led for the the little red light that blinks with the key next to it with a different color, will it still blink? sorry, i totally forgot the name of it.

 

Not sure which you are talking about. I offer a parts kit with diagrams, but you have to know how to solder and have solder supplies in order to make the kit work.

 

Bump! XA diag is done and in the xa forum... XB soon to come!

 

what is the blue wavelength of your led's? i've see the blue led in person and wasnt my taste. i want a deep ___ blue look.. any info?

 

With leds you will generally not get a deep blue, however I can prodce a deep almost navy blue as a custom color. General wavelength is 475nm.

 

custom sounds expensive... no?

 

Custom colors run about $25 more in general.

 

so where about are the leds for the needles? are they in the gauge leds cluster? i wanna only do the red on the high end of my tach and speedo. thanks.

 

That is a question I get all the time, the needles are not lit by seperate LEDs, they are lit by the same leds that light up the gauge cluster. People tend to think they can change the needle color by simply swapping an led under them. Not so, you have to paint them or change them colors by a few other methods...

 

well i figured they were the same one, do you know how the needles change from one color to the next when your tach gets to about 3500. is that from wiring the furthest right led red or is it a paint trick?

 

It is a simple light filter trick on the gauge surface. If you choose white needles, I offer the RPM change free.

 

Just had to say, I did the swap last night and DAMN it looks better in person than in the pictures! I tried white but changed to pretty much all blue. Swapped around colors in the idiot lights and HVAC status lights including the fading temperature ring (that's AWESOME in person!)... Not a hard thing to do, and VERY well worth the time spent! Good job on the diagrams, I'm sure they'll help lots of people to come! While I was in there I doubled up on the odometer and HVAC LCD LED's, don't know if anyone else is bothered by the "bright spots" on the LCD screens or not.. (I could always see that there were 2 LED's on the odo and 3 on the HVAC) So I equally spaced 4 for the odo and 6 for the HVAC, and now it's a nice even light. But a PITA to do! Keep up the good work!