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A couple of weeks ago I decided to go ahead and swap the 8 LEDs in the stereo and 3 of the 6 LEDs in the HVAC with white ones.
I decided to leave the 3 lower ones on the HVAC their original colors because I was worried if I made every single LED white, it might look a little washed out.
I'm not going to do a DIY as 100% of the information I used to do this was already covered in Netforcers thread, but these are the LEDs I used:
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2009 Camry SE V6 loaded
Mods: Borla Dual Exhaust with no resonator, K&N Intake, 5k HID headlights and 5k HID foglights, LED Tail lights, Complete interior leds, Ultra Racing Front Strut Bar, Ultra Racing 19mm rear sway bar, 20% tint, Rosen navigation system, 19 inch ASA GT1 wheels
It wasn't too bad. The hardest part was definitely the HVAC because to get to the LEDs, you have to unsolder the whole knob. The left and right knobs have 3 tabs you have to unsolder, and the middle one has six.
Thats so damn nice. Wish someone can start a service where they would solder the leds, ship it to the person and the receiver would ship back their original.
It wasn't too bad. The hardest part was definitely the HVAC because to get to the LEDs, you have to unsolder the whole knob. The left and right knobs have 3 tabs you have to unsolder, and the middle one has six.
Not true... hahaha... I figured out a way to disassemble the knob without unsoldering it...
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2009 Camry SE V6 loaded
Mods: Borla Dual Exhaust with no resonator, K&N Intake, 5k HID headlights and 5k HID foglights, LED Tail lights, Complete interior leds, Ultra Racing Front Strut Bar, Ultra Racing 19mm rear sway bar, 20% tint, Rosen navigation system, 19 inch ASA GT1 wheels
Looks nice, so you can't do this without soldering?
Also, how much did it cost you total with shipping?
If you don't want to do any soldering, the only thing you can do is remove the little green caps on all the LEDs which will make it shine blue. The stock LEDs are blue, and with the green caps, that's how you get that aqua color.
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