Steven

That can't be right for some things ie High beam - that's blue from stock. Where'd you get this information? Furthermore I can't see you're average mechanic knowing everything that might not meet ADR's, especially not for something as commonplace as a roadworthy inspection

DJKOR - your best time is very quick. What's the fastest time you achieved before you did many mods (or, if not handy, the minimal amount of mods and what they were). Just my opinion, but your best time smashes any magazines attempts that I've read of to date. True you've modded your vehicle, but so far it's mainly just small intake/exhaust mods right? I would hope the factory setup wasn't so bad that even slight mods would result in such excellent gains.

Are you talking about the clock on top of the hazard light switch? It only appears slightly red because of the crappy camera shot - in reality it's close to the same "white" color of the dash cluster LCD No I have a much larger project I'm going to start next week hopefully

here's the complete lot done - sorry for the crappy phone pic, hopefully I'll get a better camera someday.

the smaller type SMD leds finally arrived today and I've wasted no time installing them. These were also far brighter than the factory LEDs - solution was to glue some dark tinted film over the leds to tone them down. Still brighter than factory, but not enough to be distracting just neat. So that's the steering wheel controls, and the reverse sensor buttons done! EDIT Once it get's dark outside I'll take a better pic of everything as a whole to show the overall job.

is your car red? if not a coat of red paint will make it faster - scientific fact!

ZRSHIFT - How does the car actually feel to drive? If you were that low on power, you would really notice it and the car would feel like an absolute slug. If it doesn't feel bad, I'd bet a bad dyno run. Furthermore I can't imagine you're car being that down on power and no throwing up engine codes/lights etc

no I should correct myself, even cars with regular air con have this feature - it judge goes by the temperature you set on the dial rather than the temperature the cabin is sitting on.

nearly all modern day air conditioning compressors use a type of magnetic clutch on the pulley wheel, so it only engages and therefore puts load on the engine when it's actually needed. Works the same way as many home air conditioners. So yes, the climate control system only has the compressor running when it needs it running, and will shut it off when it reaches the desired temperature.

FYI the factory sat-nav DOES have a built in security system, being a user-entered pin code. However the difference is that it isn't on by default, the owner must turn it on manually (pretty easy to do though).

excellent. I hope the blue leds that arrive aren't too bright - I've noticed a trend where the standard bulbs (For the same bulb type) are more dim than the replacements. I like the white, and am using it in combination with the blue. I don't like blue footwell or door lighting etc, it's fancy but not very practical and doesn't allow you to see very well. IMO blue/white creates a very classy look and not as bland as 100% blue would be.

I had considered using my larger SMD leds to do the steering wheel controls straight away instead of waiting for the smaller (and therefore harder to solder) leds to arrive in the mail. How do you find the brightness whilst driving at night? I like how dim they are from factory as they're very subtle. Otherwise looking very nice. Going to use white all round?

yes I had trouble with the even illumination as well. Easiest solution is to tilt the LED over a bit, so it's not directly aimed at the "AUTO" lettering. You can also see the spot on the board where an LED wasn't included, where in overseas models that was used to light up the child-proof switches. I think ours won't light up though even with an LED in there...

you'll thank for it one day :) I see you've used a 5mm LED - does that foul on the switch? I used a 3mm as it was fairly close to the same size as the standard one and I didn't want any interference

Here's window block

I remember before I started buying them in bulk, whenever I wanted an SMD led I would buy those flexible strips from Jaycar and desolder them off the strip! Even though I got pretty good at doing it you'd still overheat and kill the occasional one. Plus it was very expensive doing it this way. I'm going back over that toyota nation thread, found some very nice subtle features I'd like to add. -Edit- Just finished the power window block, piece of *****. Also found an old photo of the blue conversion I did to my old VT commodore, posted up for ****s n giggles

DJKOR's link is what I would recommend as well - that's where I've got most of my info from sofar. There are some parts I wasn't able to find there though, listed amongst them are the push-start button and to a lesser degree the dash cluster. Their are some guides to the dash clusters but our's tends to differ slightly from the american's. It's not hugely complicated but I've been taking plenty of pics of everything I do should people need a FAQ later. Power window block will get finished sometime this morning.

More progress - finished up the gear surround. Decided I preferred white letters, with a subtle blue touch around the shifters base. Both use easily available T5 wedge led replacement bulbs, bout $2 each from jaycar, though I needed to disassemble the shifter assembly and make a few changes so it would light up evenly. Plus it needed a good change and a bit of fixing, didn't realise everything had loosened up so much over time and now looked tired/worn - except for a few marks, it's now better than new! Currently on holidays, next goal is the power window block. Then it will be the sensor switch below the steering wheel and the steering wheel controls themselves (Waiting on those tiny leds to arrive in the mail) heck I might even go insane and finally wash the car :)

are you sure the factory sat navs don't have a code or something, except it's optional? reason i ask is that I swear I've seen an option for some kind of security option when scoping out my sat nav unit

It's a real shame it doesn't work the same way as other certain anti-theft features, like those in Queensland police vehicles - whereby removal of the key allows the engine to stay running, but moving the gear lever at all results in the engine shutting down

for a brief moment there, considering the late time of night and all, that I could beat DJKOR to posting the answer... Should have known better :P

Been exploring the Aurion's interior illumination setup lately, and it easily lends itself to a change of colour so I thought I'd give it a go. At the moment I've got the headunit, climate control, push-start button and dash cluster done. a note on the dash cluster, I could just have easily changed the white parts to blue as well - however I'm quite fond of the standard white lit areas staying as they are, and keeping the blue parts more subtle so really I'm just replacing all the green/aqua. I've taken plenty of pics of how things disassemble if people want to follow and give it a try - there's no reason why you can't use any color you want. All I've got left are the steering wheel controls (which use a gullwing type of SMD led which I sadly don't have any of), and sensor button (also gullwing), the transmission surround, and other bits and pieces.

Drawing 20amps at once, and without any fuses blowing? It sounds like a seriously potential fire hazard

No Fault Found. Oh okay. Thanks. And here my imagination had come up with "Not F**kin Fixed"

I don't know if there anything different plug wise, but they don't come standard with an AUX port, only the lower models do. Kind of a rip job there