My latest Mod

How do you change the needle color? isn't the needle itself orange?

 

But you remove the orange paint with some nail polish remover and paint them with hobie shop paint in any color you swap the needle LEDs so they match

 

How about the steering wheel controls...same led's right? Is it difficult to take the buttons off to swap them?

 

love the blue and green

 

Thats looks badass. Good job I like it. I hope to do the same to mine sometime soon and might have a few questions once I get started if u dont mind

 

steering wheel controls are the same leds there are 3 on eat side

05-08 Left side only
09+ both sides

what you do is disconnect the battery and on each side of the steering wheel theres a cover that you take off and you take off 1 star screw that holds the airbag.

then remove the airbag n take off 1 screw from the controls...other than that you just take the control apart and unsolder the leds and swap

any questions feel free to pm me

 

Thanks bro.

 

can u retro fit a +09 clock into an older model taco like 07 ect..?

 

No prob!!

It's not really Retrofiting but it's the same plug and it fits exactly the same as th older model ones

 

know where I can pick one up with blue LEDs?

 

Awesome man! Thanks for the idea. I might give it a try when I get some time!

 

I am looking into doing this mod and am wondering about the green needles. Other threads show the needles as being painted red. Did you re-paint or purchase clear needles?

The Toyota Nation link shows a clear, white and red needle: http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/6...-orange-red-yuck-how-change-gauge-colors.html

Jerez states he paints the needles.

 

Where did you get youre LEDs at for the cluster, and what are the specs? I want to do mine but I am having a hard time finding the right LED's.

 

Curious if you painted your needles?

 

If you want a different color needle then you have to remove the paint and paint it the color you want as well changing the LEDs to that same color

In the first pic they look painted...when they're not painted the needle is clear n u can see thru it