Dash Backlighting

Is there a way to change the backlighting on the dash? Gauge lights, radio buttons etc, I swear I heard somewhere you can but I'll be damned if I can find it.

 

Turn your trip odometer switch.

 

You can make it dimmer or brighter, but cant change the colors. Turning the odo switch will change the brightness.

 

^^

 

Thanks guys, knew about the brighter or dimmer, was meaning the color...Funny, my kid's $150 Pioneer will change to like 25 different colors but the $42k truck cant lol

 

There is a option in the radio to change some coloring though, I dont remember where because I removed mine, but there was some menu color or something. It just changed the little header bars or something in the radio and I think in the screen in the cluster.

Not sure if newer radios have the option.

 

because the pioneer's color changing feature was designed as a gimmick to pad the options list over other radio's.

are you saying your truck doesn't have enough gimmicks the way it is?

 

Nope it doesn't even the cheapest head units have that ability. Even Walmart's house brand DUAL has it

 

i'm sure you'll be inundated with new vehicle quality reviews. be sure to note that you're selling for a ferd because you can't control the dash light color

 

Ok so you're the official Toyota twink gobbler, noted.

 

You can change the color of the display between the speedometer and tachometer.

Your Pioneer wont take you over Black Bear pass though!

 

LOL

 

Is there a way to turn on the tachometer and speedometer lights without the headlights being on?

 

Turn on the running lights and the cluster lights will turn on

 

You can change the color in the menu. It’s a setting somewhere. I found it once and the other colors were awful.

 

mine doesn’t

 

There should be 4 light settings on models with DRLs and 3 for trucks without.

Off -> DRL -> running lights -> headlights
Off -> running lights -> headlights

 

quite the title. look up my post count. i haven't passed 'sarcastic ass' just yet.

 

Im almost there, just about 900 more posts.

 

For the instrument cluster at least, the gauge backlight leds are soldered to the circuit card. So replacing them to change the color is out. FSM even says to replace the entire cluster if those leds stop working.