Change color for button light

PonyFresh · Nov 11, 2017

Hey guys does anybody has any way to change the color for the button light? The color of the buttons is set to factory ice blue and MyColor doesn't work for the buttons. A uniform color must be perfect so I wonder if anybody has done this? Thanks!

Chef jpd · Nov 11, 2017

They can't change.
Just change the ambient and gauge lights to ice blue, and your sense of uniformity will be met.

Kinjirra · Nov 11, 2017

PonyFresh said:
Hey guys does anybody has any way to change the color for the button light? The color of the buttons is set to factory ice blue and MyColor doesn't work for the buttons. A uniform color must be perfect so I wonder if anybody has done this? Thanks!

Besides changing out all the LEDS to the color you want. Lots of work and I'm sure you run the risk of ruining electrical boards and such as it would take some soldering work. Seen some really cool custom work like that years ago on some cars...really makes it unique.

Dirtyblueshirt · Nov 11, 2017

Kinjirra said:
Besides changing out all the LEDS to the color you want. Lots of work and I'm sure you run the risk of ruining electrical boards and such as it would take some soldering work. Seen some really cool custom work like that years ago on some cars...really makes it unique.

This. I've seen it done once before in a Fiesta a few years back, but it was for SEMA and these days you're looking at dozens of micro-sized surface mounted LEDs. Not impossible, just insanely tedious and difficult. Over 9000.

jacknifetoaswan · Nov 12, 2017

I changed every LED in my Mercury Sable to blue back in the early 2000s, but dude, it's not worth it. Desoldering every. single. LED. sucks. Soldering in new LEDs sucks. Bad LEDs suck. LEDs that fail after a couple weeks suck. Don't do it.

JR

PonyFresh · Nov 12, 2017

Chef jpd said:
They can't change.
Just change the ambient and gauge lights to ice blue, and your sense of uniformity will be met.

Well, can't deny it's a way to make a uniform look

Kinjirra · Nov 12, 2017

Dirtyblueshirt said:
This. I've seen it done once before in a Fiesta a few years back, but it was for SEMA and these days you're looking at dozens of micro-sized surface mounted LEDs. Not impossible, just insanely tedious and difficult. Over 9000.

OVER 9000!!

Dirtyblueshirt · Nov 12, 2017

Kinjirra said:
OVER 9000!!

I was waiting for someone to pick up on that

black1985gt · Nov 14, 2017

I was curious as to why they decided not to put multi color options in from the factory. I resorted to leaving everything Ice Blue for uniformities sake. I'd love to have the orange or a shade of red but I'm not about to swap out all of those LED's.

Dirtyblueshirt · Nov 14, 2017

black1985gt said:
I was curious as to why they decided not to put multi color options in from the factory. I resorted to leaving everything Ice Blue for uniformities sake. I'd love to have the orange or a shade of red but I'm not about to swap out all of those LED's.

Simple, cost. Not just the LEDs themselves, but building more complex circuit paths into things like window switches, etc. which could also mean more wires (a control wire on top of a standard pos/neg connection,for example).

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