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Tox, Hey there buddy, great job with the lights!! I am really jelouse! I want my lights blue now as well!! I think I will give it a go. Thanks for listing the led sight!

Hey Tox,

Was in your neck of the wood this weekend. Took the wife and kids to visit her sister in Dallas, took everyone to Turner Fall on Sunday. Did you ever do the door lights? Pretty easy, just one 5mm LED in the switch. The switch panel just pop out from the door, no need to take the door apart. Good luck, might need some help later, thinking of the getting a Z1 and the new Z3 harddrive on ebay. Yours looking good everytime I read your forum.

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2007 White CM, TRD, 4x4

Yeah, i know the door piece comes out easy, I've just been too lazy to do it. I also thought about putting a couple extra ones under the switches to see if it would halo light the other switches. Might be interesting.

If you are going to get the Z1 and then put in a Z3 hard drive, go to Avic411.com and look around in there. Not too long ago there was a guy who was cloning drives for free right when the Z3 came out. You buy your own 40 gig hard drive and send it to him. He'll clone it with his Z3 and send it back to you. You pay shipping of course. I was going to do it but I wanted to wait to see what others who did it said first. If it was all legit, I was going to see if I could buy a hard drive online and send it directly to him and then pay for shipping to me. Should be cheaper that way. I'll look on there and find the thread on it when I have more time.

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2007 SR5 Crewmax 5.7L 4x4
Mods: nerf bars, Truxedo tonneau, radar detector power, 3M clear bra, fog lights, black billet grille, rear differential breather, parking sensors, Line-X, power tailgate lock, hood safety latch mod, one off driving lights behind grille, Pioneer NAV w/ OEM camera, Flowmaster 50 SUV dual/dual, blue LED dash lights, Volant CAI, Llumar tint, CompuStar Pro alarm, ProComp 6066 20" wheels, Cooper Zeon LTZ 275/60/20 tires, OME HD coilover lift, Firestone helper air bags, stereo cable lock, Tekonsha P3 brake controller
All mod descriptions and pictures © 2007-2009 by Toxarch. They may be copied only for personal use and the mods may be done for non-profit only.

Figures.... Just bought a Z3 on Ebay yesterday.

Here is the last part of the write-up if you want to be rid of ALL the amber LEDs. This is for the amber colored "Auto" in the driver door and for the amber colored ashtray light (cup holder light) for the center console shift trucks.

First pull the window switches off the door. It's just held down by tabs, but it takes a pretty good pull to get them up. You can try prying the handle end off with a flathead screwdriver. Be careful not to scratch the cover. Once that is up you have to remove the plug. push a small screwdriver into the tab on one side of the plug. It will come unhooked and the plug will easily slide off. Next, remove the 3 large screws on the ends of the controls.



Then you need to pull off the window lock button. Just pull straight up and it will come off.



Now remove the 3 screws along the bottom.



Next you have to separate the white plastic board from the circuit board. Wrap some duct tape around a flat head screwdriver and GENTLY pry them apart. You have to separate them by like a half inch before they will come apart. Be VERY CAREFUL to not damage the circuit board.



See the tall contact points in the plastic piece, this is why you have to separate them so much for it to come apart.



There is a single wide flat LED in the middle that you want to replace. You have to carefully heat solder joints and get the LED out. Mine was a bit of a pain because the LED leads were bent at the boards. So I had to heat up the solder and straighten out the leads and then try to remove them. I found it easiest to heat the solder and push them out with the pencil tip. It's a little tricky, but not terribly hard to do. Be sure to not over heat it.



Now take one of the larger rounded LEDs and grind the curved top off it. I wanted it to disperse the light a little better and not be too tall. I used my table grinding wheel on it and made the top flat. This also frosted the glass to even the light out a bit.



You will have to bend the leads a bit to get the LED to fit in the holes that are a little wider apart than the new LED wires. The shorter wire goes into the hole with the "K" next to it. If it's the wrong way, it won't light up. You have to turn the ignition key to get it to light up. Here it is installed:




Looks really good once lit up.


Now we do the ash tray light. This one was not very fun to do. You need a really small saw to do this. I pulled the blade off a tiny hack saw.

IGNORE THE OTHER TOOLS IN THE PICTURE. This was from another write-up. The blade from the saw in the middle is the one I used.


You need something small like that to remove the LED in the next part.

Pull the center console apart to get to the ashtray LED. You just need to open the center console and grab the edge closest to the dash. It's held down my tabs so just pull straight up and remove the piece. Now you should see the light. It's small and held in place by a single screw. Remove the screw and the piece will come off. Unplug the wire leading to the light. Now grab the back of the light and the large piece it is attached to. Hold one and give the other a quarter turn. It will pop right off.

Now comes all the fun parts. You have to get the light internals out of the casing. Take two very small screwdrivers and insert them on both sides above the light. This will push the sides outward and release the internal parts that slide right out.



Here is the back of that piece that slid out. You need to detach the LED that has been spot welded in place on those right two tabs.



I tried breaking them. I tried prying them up and breaking them. I tried getting some tiny cutters in there to cut them. Only thing that worked, was patiently sawing the leads with a tiny hacksaw blade. Took a little while to do it, but it finally worked and the light came right out. The old LED is on the right and the new one is on the left.



I took this LED to the grinder again. It made a beam that was a little too narrow. I wanted something wider. So I made a rounded frosted dome on the LED and soldered it in place.



Reassemble everything and you are done. The ashtray blue light seems a little brighter than the old one. Hopefully it's not too bright and distracting.

The only amber lights that might still be around are the shifter lights. Not sure if I want to change those.

Yet another great DIY yourself write-up Tox... you're like the Energizer bunny... you just keep going and going and going..... lol!

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2007 Tundra Limited Double Cab 4x4 Super White
Volant CAI
Pioneer AVIC Z-2 (hard drive upgrade to AVIC Z-3)
Key FOB Tailgate Lock (courtesy of Toxarch)
OEM back-up camera w/flip down monitor microswitch mod
Sirius Satellite Radio
WeatherTech Floor Liners
20" OEM alloy wheels
Line-X Bed liner
UWS Black Powdercoat Low Profile Toolbox
DU-HA underseat storage unit
JC Whitney Black Nerf Bars
Lund Interceptor II Bug Shield
Tekonsha Voyager Brake Controller

If it's mine and I get an idea for it, then I gotta just go ahead an do it. I had the door and the center console apart. The two final amber LEDs were bugging me. So I went ahead and pulled them out and did it. Now I don't have to look at them anymore and wonder when I would get around to changing them out. Ideas like LED color are simple decisions. Ideas like wheel and tire choices are a whole other problem.

I'll bet that blue looks pretty damn cool!!

re.ac.tor

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Another awesome write-up. Looks good, probably even better at night all lit up.

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07 DC SR5 Long Bed Desert Pyrite Mica, folding rear seat mod, Raptor step bars, OEM back-up camera, "iPod in the ashtray", Toytec 3" leveling kit

I want to say a very big thank you to Toxarch. I did the swap over to blue myself. However I didn't know that LED's only go one way. He helped a brother out big time with instructions and patience.

Thank you again Sir very, very much.