hey guys welcome back to the channel so i'm just on a soldering spree last couple weeks so if you
guys remember a couple weeks ago i had done the dash upgrade on all the lights on the dash of
the is 300 i changed the bulbs in the climate control and the navigation and the dash and
the cluster and everything and i didn't get to the radio because it had a bunch of leds inside
what i'm going to do today is take the face of this radio part take all the leds out and change
them all to white leds i believe in the window switches the auto down and the lock button also
had amber leds in them so i'm going to take this guy apart and change those leds out so stay tuned
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little projects that take me weeks to do and i try to post everything i do so i keep you guys all
informed so you could try this yourselves at home but anyways we'll get started in today's project
all right so we got the radio out of the car if you guys want to know how to take the radio
out of the car i've taken this out a couple times on my videos if you want to check out some of my
other dash videos you check those out pretty easy i mean it's just four 10 millimeters once you take
out the vent and everything you gotta be careful taking out the top vent so you don't break it but
check out one of my other videos if you want to do that to get to the radio board it's pretty
easy there's three clips down here and two clips up top that let you pop the face off once you pop
the face off the thing just comes right out for the switch here it's pretty easy too if you really
want to take the switch assembly off there's three phillips that takes this thing out and then you
can just pop these guys out then you can take the back out without unscrewing this by just taking
these clips out from here so yeah just go ahead and use your pry tool pop this guy up top here
there was a couple ones on the side too that i didn't mention earlier
pull the knobs off too
alright there it is put that off to the side
so this thing wants to take it off there's a bunch of screws back here that you take off
so you have to take these off just unscrew these screws so basically all the white circles on here
careful all the switches and the buttons they all tend to fall out just put them all back in in the
correct orientation so we flip over here and then you'll see all the 1206 leds all around this thing
these come off pretty easily with the air solder you see me use that air solder before you can see
how quickly it comes apart so we'll go ahead and do that once i take this other switch apart so
with this switch like i said earlier you could probably pop it off without taking it off of
the body but i'm just gonna go ahead and take it off the trim so that way i don't damage anything
we got three screws in here so you're gonna get those off
let's take those off it comes pretty feels pretty
loose after you do that so you pry the things apart around the tabs
that comes apart there
you got all the different switches that just kind of fell out on me so in here you'll see the little
reflector for the amber light and on this board there's the led for the amber right here i see
one and then there's one right here there's two leds on the board right here one and two
so we want to replace those two leds all right so we got the board right here as you can see there's
about 31 amber leds all around this thing each of the knobs has three each there's also two green
ones for the load and the eject for the cd player so i might change those to blue i'm gonna do the
knobs around here blue also just to offset the all the white a little bit i suspect behind this lcd
is also amber about to take apart this lcd to look at it take apart the lcd you got to bend
these little tabs all around here there's a solder joint that you gotta desolder right here to get
the cover off hopefully once you pull the cover off you can pull the lcd off to access the leds
if you don't have any of these tools already check out the links
in the description for all these tools i've got i've got them all on amazon
what it looks like is this lcd uses these contacts right here along the board and then
back here to make the contact and get the signal through so it's important that you get these back
in perfectly aligned for the contacts there's another 14 leds right under here to take care of
so get started with this you got to get your air solder and like i said if you guys don't
already have an air solder at home go ahead and check out the description i just ordered
this on amazon a few months back it was like 45 bucks it's been a life saver for me for
doing these projects but all you do is kind of wave it around here don't hold it too long you
don't want to burn your board but you want to just get it loosen it and it pops right
off it makes desoldering so satisfying just try not to keep it on there too long because you're
going to burn the board or burn your leds or burn something that you don't want to burn
you just kind of wave it around and then get your tweezer in there just pull it right off
man that air solder makes this thing so easy i did like 47 or 48 of those babies in like less than 10
minutes and then i did these two over here these two over here were a little bit harder with the
air solder probably could have done it better with the regular soldering iron just because of how
thick the solder is over on this one but it ended up being fine anyway that basically destroyed it
when i took it out but the pad is still pretty good so we shouldn't have a problem putting
the new one on there for the leds i'm using i got these on ebay they were like a hundred for
like five or six bucks i'll have the link in the description if you guys need these
but these are just regular 1206 leds and i still have the blue ones for my 2is navigation upgrades
so i'm going to use the blue ones for the two dials and then the eject light on here and the
rest of them i'm just going to do white on this so as far as orientation goes on here it's pretty
straightforward if you look at the leds there's a little green on the front corner of it and that's
the cathode side which is the negative if you look on your board you'll see a little indicator
which is like a line or an arrow that kind of goes out that's wider than the other side and
that's usually the cathode side but if you want to make sure before you start just check with your
multimeter to see if the thing lights up positive and negative with your multimeter so before you
start on yours you want to clean up the solder pad a little bit before you put the new led on just
hit it with the soldering iron just to clean it up and kind of let the solder flux kind of spread
out from what you just took apart i'm going to do the eject and the dials first right now
all right we got about half the leds on here so before you move any further you
want to just test them all to make sure they all light up and you got good connection so
the best thing you want to do is use the little dots on the board so you just find
the anode and the cathode which is a positive and negative just put it on there and see if it
lights up using this method ensures that you have a good solder pad you're not touching
the actual led itself you're touching a trace that way it confirms that your solder is good
it's got this baby all soldered up now everything is nice and clean verified that all the leds work
so we're good to go here so i'm going to continue on getting these two leds for the switch and we're
finished here and we get everything put back together and installed and see how this looks
all right so we're getting back in here just clean up the little solder pad a little bit
keep in mind the direction so the cathode on this it looks like there's a k
on the side of it that marks it as a cathode
pretty easy there so i tested it in the car and everything lights up so
these two leds are fine this is good so we'll put everything back together now
so we're in the car got it all set up and everything looks good as hell now with the
radio everything matches my climate control my radio all the white leds matches my dash
i've got the leds over here for the auto down you can kind of see it going through there
and on the lock that little led right there for the lock that's good on the switches right there
everything looks really nice on the radio the white really pops off
these blue dials i did for the knobs those things turned out really awesome on here it's a nice
contrast it goes with the little blue voltage i have down here that i added on my last video
but overall very happy with this setup in a future video i got planned i'm going to be
swapping in an android screen to replace the nav screen i'm going to reuse the radio down here for
the sound and everything i just want to use the screen and bluetooth the audio down to the radio
hey guys thanks for sticking around all the way in this video on soldering that board for the radio
on the is300 and then doing those window switches to match all the white leds i did on the cluster
and everywhere else on the car if you guys didn't check out my last video where i did the rest of
the leds go ahead and go check out that video if you're trying to do this project too also go over
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and all my updates and if you're doing any of these is 300 or is 250 or sienna or any other
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