I was at a local car center yesterday in germany and was talking to another mini owner. He had all of the LED's removed on his dash guages and speedometer and replaced them with a very nice looking blue color to match the other ones in the car (except the orange screen on the onboard computer). I asked him where he got it done but he said it was done by the previous owner. Thinking it might be different on the Eurospec models I asked him if his was one, but said it was US spec. I know there is LED kits to change the interior lighting in the car but I havent seen a kit or guide on how to do it for the dash. Does anyone know? Im not even sure it can be done, so maybe he had to buy after market guages with the LEDs preinstalled? Thanks for the inputs!

 

just to be fully clear this was an R56 we are talking about? because if we are i am
+1 curious as well

 

Yeah its an R56. He was originally showing me his exhaust and other interior mods that were done on the car and then I noticed the gauges . . . and it looked freakin' sweet. But I dont know about ripping a tach and speedometer apart on my own to change LEDs, I would be afraid of breaking something. And my luck the guy wasnt the one who did the mod so he couldnt help me ; ;. Anyways I was doing some research for after market guages with blue lighting and I havent found jack on it, so I am really curious on how he got it done now!

 

I have seen the mod posted her on NAM but it was a custom mod and the work looked pretty extensive

 

Its possible, BUT!!! its a lot of work, fine delicate work. You better have a lot of time on your hands, there is a lot of disassembly involved.

 

We have a set of 07+ gauges coming in the mail. We will be making custom gauge face overlays.
When I have them opened up, I will look to see what is involved in changing out the LED's. If it is similar to the previous model, then it just requires replacing the stock orange LED's with blue ones, using a soldering iron.

If we decide to tackle this, we can swap out gauge clusters with those interested!

 

Thanks for all the replies! I might have some time coming up in the next couple months, so If I get around to it I can post a how to and some pics

 

I'm hoping to do the same. I'm wanting to go with this look.

 

How the eff did they get the radio and OBC displays to change to blue?!@?!?!?!

 

Looking forward to that!

 

That looks so sweet. I would definetly invest a lot of time into changing the LEDs to get a look like that. I would also like to know how you change the colors of the computer displays like that because it looks amazing!

 

i would love to have blue . its a lil more pleasing to the eyes at night to me.

 

my favorite part is the white Gas Light indicator

 

this is by far one of my favorite interior mods r53 and r56
good times

 

The orange is the one single thing I don't like about MINI's. I would much prefer a bluish backlight. Unfortunately, I don't have the expertise, nor the local business (in Montana) to get something like this done professionally.

 

Amazing!

Lagston, definitely looking forward to seeing your gauges.

 

WOW i realllllly want blue+orange! that is so sexy!

 

+++++++++++++++++1
really where do i get one???????? please

 

Wow, I'd definitely be interested in something like this. Let us know Lagston!

 

that looks quite nice. i was thinking of a more darker blue. if not red haha. it looks amazing though. would say that it might make the interior a bit too bright. (but that's just me).

Would definately be intrested in something like this.... kinda nervous though.

 

With all of the other options available on MINI's, I'm surprised they don't offer something like this...even if they would charge more for it, there's obviously a demand.

 

but i gotta say i like how every color matches. so it's all in unison

 

dy_xfactor, Where did you get those pics? You've got everyone's curiosity burning!

 

www.Essentialmini.co.uk.

 

i would love to have the choice of changing the colors just like the ambient lighting in the R56's