isfdave86

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I'm not a fan of that weird greenish color for the center console buttons. In my old car(Camry), if you accessed the board behind the buttons the LED just had a plastic capsule you could just pull off and the LED would show up blue. Is this the same case in our cars or does the LED have to be replaced? I have a 2008.

I did a search and came up with some several year old threads about this and there was a supposed DIY but it looks like it was taken down for some reason, not sure why.

Anybody try this?

lobuxracer

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You can change the color if you like to solder very tiny LEDs. Lexus did not use a colored plastic to change the color of the LEDs. There were a few threads in the 2IS forum about this years ago, and there are some small businesses out there who do this work, but no site sponsors AFAIK.

I did this to my Scion tC in 2005, but would not want to attempt it on a 2IS just because it's too much work for such a small change.

isfdave86

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Yeah I saw those threads. I was just hoping it would be easy. I saw some quotes people got from businesses that wanted $700-$900 which is just insanity

lobuxracer

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Sounds like you've not actually done this. I would charge at least that, probably more if it were something I wanted to do. I don't want to, once was enough. I spent many years working depot level electronics maintenance in the Air Force. I am very good at soldering, it's just a huge PITA job with those tiny LEDs.

isfdave86

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The insanity I was referring to was paying that much for not a huge return. I understand the pain it is for those tiny LEDs. I'm not even close to good with soldering otherwise I'd try it myself.

Rickna

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I have done this on 2 previous cars. I would not suggest doing this if you're not familiar with using a rework station. As it's been said, it's alota work for not much of a return.