New interior pics, 56K beware

New interior pics, 56K beware

well i got my center console to light up red, well half way. all the controls for the AC and stuff light up red and also the dome light lights up red. sorry, some of the pix suck, i'll take better ones tomorrow, what do u thin let me know











and one special one



sorry the car is dirty, but it rained here, and i took the pic at school



what u think how does it look, i got more interior pics but i gotta up load them
also, i'll post more exterior pics after i get my OEM Altis grill on this friday......[/b]

oh yeah, it lights up really red when the lights are on and you look at them in person, the pics kinda suck cuz of the lighting.....

not bad. I dont care for red, but good job.

yo

hey howd you do that? can you do a DIY and price on all of how much you spent? im not sure if i asked you already but i didnt see my post so ima ask again thanks.

how didja get the interior instrument lighting to be red?

didja use some colored bulb?

i have a CE. i took off the dash part and painted the bulbs, cuz i cant find covers that size. I'll do a DIY if stinky will put it up in that section, it will be up by friday...

I'll put it up if you do it. just post it up in here and ill snag the pics and stuff.

cool, i'll do it tomorrow b4 work and then post it up probably tomorrow night.

:?: Question - Your speedometer thingy. did u paint yours black??? Mine is white and yours is black??

Snuggles, no i didnt paint it, that would take an ungodly amount of work. You have a Corolla S. the S and the LE came with white face guages and the CE came with black. that's why mine look different....

I like it cuz they light up like the lexus color....

I didn't know that Ce comes with a black guage (guess u learn something new everyday). that is ghetto. the other two models gets white and the ce gets black. i think they should give the Ce the white guage too, almost all the cars coming out now has the white faces. Toyota is so stupid sometimes. I'm sure the black ones cost just as much as the white ones. Well the black does make the interior look more unify. Yours looks like an S (at least the inside). How did u get your interior to be grey??? I thought the Ce comes with a beige colored interior. B/c like the Ce = beige, S = black and Le = grey.

P.S. i have an Le (with the really ugly interior, it would've looked so much better with the woodgrain ). I don't really mind, as long as it's a Corolla !

no no no, the S is black only, on the LE and CE u can choose depending on the exterior. for some odd reason, all the CE's in that color had beige so i had to custom order mine and wait 7 weeks for it.

good job mate, hey how did you change the dome light?
i wanna change mine to xtreme white, can you show a DIY on that?
and what is the bulb #?
thanks

sorry dude, i painted mine so i dont know what the size it is but if u pull the cover off, there is the number which is the smae thing etched on the bulb, that might be it. i'll post pics tomorrow
u can just take it out and take it to auto zone or someplace to find the right one

cool, but how do you pop out that plastic cover thingy
just use a flathead screw driver with brutal force? lol

if u got nails, brut force or get a flathead screw driver

ok i m gonna try that tonite, thx

no probs bro good luck. if u find bulbs that size in white give me a holla, that's waht i wanted to do but i'm to fucking lazy and dont have enuff time to go around and check

I just changed the color of my bulbs in the center console to red. i got really lucky cause the color perfectly matched the red color of the hazard button. I did it by dipping the bulbs in paint that can be used on glass. That is $2.50 well spent. Here are some pics.



Notice the time? thats in the AM. i've got no life. :roll: I actually started working on this around 3:00am



Ofcourse it looks a lot better in real life than it does in the pics.



Instead of painting the bulb in the shifter, I took of the green condom and painted the back of the piece of the plastic right behind the "P","D","2" and "1". Notice the line i added next to those. Had to scratch off the coating with a knife on the back of that plastic piece to do that.

What did you use to paint the bulbs??

it's all purpose paint that can be used on glass. The brand is "Crown" and it's called "Just Enough". the color is called "apple red". It's a small 30ml bottle and cost me $2.50 from Zellers. I don't think they have Zellers in the states, only in Canada. It's like a Wal-mart.

Krylon makes a "stained glass" paint that you can use. one day Imay make mine more blue colored. I got my stock radio back in now so I am going to switch that to blue as well.

Stylin- don't u want to come to NC and change the lights on my car??? I mean since u "don't have a life". j/k It's just that it looks soo cool, but i don't think i have 2 hours of patiences to do all that. I am very impatient, so there's not way i could do all that and plus i am car literate.

Stinky, you can change the lights from green to blue in the stock HU?

Well I'll let you know in a few days if I can. I was planning on trying tomorrow. I was going to buy some blue LED's and solder them in, but I have the sneaking suspicion that the lights in the HU has those green condomes on them as well. If thats the case Ill just paint them plue like I did with the stock bulbs.

did u ever get to putting those blue bulbs in the radio? did it work?

no I still havnt done it. I got a lot buisier lately. I will mabey do it this weekend.

Sorry for the late reply.

So snuggles r u inviting me down to NC? :wink:

Actually changing the color on the bulbs took 2 hrs cause it took 1.5 hrs for the paint to dry. I dipped the bulb into the paint instead of brushing it on to get a thicker even coat. And 'cause of the thick coat it took such a long time to dry. It should also take no longer than 10-15 mins. taking out and putting back the bulbs.

Check out this link if you haven't seen it already for more info on changing the bulb color:

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I saw the DIY and it looks scary!! Like it looks so confusing. The disconnecting and reconnecting. The stock lights don't look so bad. But another color would look cooler. . .

stylin-- i wish i could invite u down here, but i doubt my mom will let me do that. It's not like NC is fun anyways. Boring NC. Nothing but trees and houses.