Anyone do the interior color change mods
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it costs 75$ (return shipping included) and is done by chris (ardinos on IWS).
here's why he said the 2004 mod wont work on the 2005....
here's why he said the 2004 mod wont work on the 2005....
Originally Posted by ardinos
One good reason, the plastic itself is green.
When I do a HID leveling switch or intercooler sprayer switch, the piece of plastic that the light shines through I pop out. I then take and very carefully use a Qtip and non-acetone nail polish to rub off the printed/ painted (not sure which) coloring on the back of the plastic. Done right you have a plastic piece which is now clear and just shines with the color of the bulb or LED behind it.
For the knobs for the HVAC, the plastic itself is green, there is no coloring on the backside, it's tinted green throughout.
What this means is in order to shine red, you need to only shine red light through the plastic. If you have any green wavelenghts of light coming throught the knob, you'd get green and red which is I forget what color, but it's not red. (Being an amateur astronomer I should know this, damn.)
Anyways it can't be done, trust me I checked and there is no way to remove the green color from the knob itself, hence red LED's.
When I do a HID leveling switch or intercooler sprayer switch, the piece of plastic that the light shines through I pop out. I then take and very carefully use a Qtip and non-acetone nail polish to rub off the printed/ painted (not sure which) coloring on the back of the plastic. Done right you have a plastic piece which is now clear and just shines with the color of the bulb or LED behind it.
For the knobs for the HVAC, the plastic itself is green, there is no coloring on the backside, it's tinted green throughout.
What this means is in order to shine red, you need to only shine red light through the plastic. If you have any green wavelenghts of light coming throught the knob, you'd get green and red which is I forget what color, but it's not red. (Being an amateur astronomer I should know this, damn.)
Anyways it can't be done, trust me I checked and there is no way to remove the green color from the knob itself, hence red LED's.
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Radio is bulb condoms too. Once you pull the radio out of the console there's four tabs holding the face of the radio to the unit itself. Pry those out then pull the face off. Once the face is off on the backside of it there are approximately six screws you remove. Pull the circuit board from the actual face plate. Then you just change the green condoms to red on the cb.
Originally Posted by 02CavyZ24
thats seems pretty much it but how do you change the radio to red?
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*Scratches Jon's head too* Um yea, a) someone might have been waiting on the answer or b) someone new might come in looking for the answer and this thread is new to them and now the answer is there. 
Originally Posted by JON3KGT
*scratches head* Um yea, this thread is like a decade old.
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