Prius Gen 3 - Instrument Panel Lighting Upgrade

[aporschefan]

Hi,

I bought my wife a pearl white gen III Prius (t-spirit) yesterday. It early days but she's over the moon with it so far.

The interior, imho, is much better on the gen III than the gen II Prius. Anyway, I think it would look better still if I could change the lighting on the instrument panel from green to white. I'd also like to do this on the steering wheel. (The lights on the steering wheel are quite dim.)

Does anyone know if this is easily achievable or where I can get this done? (Is there a LED lighting kit I can buy for this 'upgrade'?)

Or are there instructions re how to access the bulbs so I can change these?

Has anyone else done this and want to share their thoughts?

I'm not trying to pimp the car, I just prefer lights to be white rather than green. I don't want them overly bright either for obvious reasons.

I don't know much about the Prius but unless the bulbs are welded onto the circuit boards behind the instrument panel, it should just be a simple case of swapping existing bulbs for new ones. Shouldn't it?

[mybrainhurts]

aporschefan said:

Hi,

I bought a Prius yesterday.

anyone else want to share their thoughts?

[aporschefan]

Utterly unpredictable response and pure comic genius.

Hopefully someone else will have something more constructive to suggest?

[mybrainhurts]

Struggling, are we..?

[mybrainhurts]

You appear to need a hand...

BUMP...

[Save Ferris]

Hmmm, Ive never heard of this being done (or a kit to do it) My suggestion would be to try an American Prius forum/club to see if it's possible.

[mybrainhurts]

There is another way...



HTH...

[deanobeano]

I'm on my second Prius. And for BIK beating, cheap mile munching, it can't be beat.

Try toyotaukforums or better still, priuschat.

Gen 3 T Spirit, 10 plate and 88k pretty much trouble free miles. 52.9 actual mpg (fuelly) over 85000 tracked miles.

I'll get me coat...

[mybrainhurts]

I'm losing the will to live...

[Escort Si-130]

+1. I HATE the Prius and most Prius drivers are complete wkers. They either drive like grannies trying to see if they get get 100000mpg or just drive like tts thinking because they have a quick 0-10mph takeoff think they are driving a rocket.
st vehicle, end of!

mybrainhurts said:

[paulmoonraker]

mybrainhurts said: