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New Mods - Carbon Hydrodip interior, Blue Hybrid Start Button & LED Upgrade

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Old 06-30-20, 02:49 PM
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Default New Mods - Carbon Hydrodip interior, Blue Hybrid Start Button & LED Upgrade

Just thought i'd share some recent mods I did.

The 4 main mods here are:
  1. Hydrodip Interior Panels - I hydrodipped the centre console and steering wheel switchpad cover in black micro carbon weave pattern with a 2K clear coat on top to get a nice deep shine. I had recently wrapped the steering switchpad in gloss carbon fibre but wasn't too happy with the level of shine and depth of the pattern. So I hydrodipped it. I also took this oppertunity to finally change the outdated wooden centre console to the same design. Just have to do the window switches still.
  2. LED Upgrade - I took the oppertunity to change the LED bulbs inside the switchpad to blue. LED's are very cheap. I bought a pack of 100 for a few GBP. Plan is to change all the green LED's out on the car at some point.
  3. Aluminium Sports Pedals - I've always been after some OEM aluminium sport pedals but don't like to spend too much, so managed to finally source the whole set from a breaker for £20 GBP.
  4. Hybrid Blue Start Button - I wanted to upgrade the standard start button to the blue hybrid one to match by blue interior and exterior theme. I first purchased a hybrid blue start button from an earlier hybrid lexus for £5 GBP but wasn't happy with the tone of blue and the backlight was yellowish, so i gave up with that. Then I purchased one from a CT200h for £10 GBP and the blue tone of that is perfect and is like a pearl blue and the backlight is white. So in the pics you will probably see both start buttons.
Some pics of all these mods below:



























































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Old 06-30-20, 02:53 PM
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Nice work man. I'm really liking the CT200 push button.
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It looks great! Good job!
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looks good.
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I like the interior LED lighting on the interior and how you got rid of the stock green color!
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