Has anyone ever changed the inside lights from that orange to something more appealling? To me it looks kind of ugly and just woundering if anyone has any advice on to change it. thx.
Maybe in the country he lives in it is spelled that way, like the way brits spell color, colour. Anyhow, it's very simple to change the instrument cluster lights, pw switches lights, radio lights and buttons to any color you want. Google that you want to change them to blue as there's one guy that did it in europe and then put a parts list to do it on the net and even had a company selling the kit. It's about 170 surface mounted LEDs that are fairly cheap and in under 145 hours of labor and a good soldering iron you can do it yourself.
There are a lot of reasons the colors are the way they are...
White/blue on the IP allows the eye to read the numbers with minimal instant strain and dilation to the pupils-it is most natural to sun light...
Orange/Red on the center stack allow a longer wave length and better dark image contrast for the smaller buttons - allowing the eye to dilate less and react easier to the small button icons and greater contrast on the center stack...
Look at an aircraft coskpit...
These are studied and matter of fact human factors - especially important for night driving, and long duration drives...
Your seat is also hard for a reason...
But you should be able to change them pretty easily…
Jake
First off yeah i made a spelling error but oo well! (and im a girl not a guy) i was asking did anyone CHANGE the lights, not why those colors are there???
you can get those LED bulbs for teh interior. check on ebay. I think that's where my friend bought them from. They're white LEDs btw. My friend gave me an extra one, but I somehow fried it otherwise I would show you how they look.
I am not sure of how you do the actual panel and LED removal on the c-class,( i am too scared to rip appart my dash coz they just never seem to be the same after) but the color of the LEDs you can actually make yourself. On my Nissan i took all the cluster LEDs out, bought clear ones and dipped them in transperent model airplane paint, so you can pick and choose the color youd like.
Interesting post. BUT, if there is human engineering reasons behind the orange lights and hard seat surfaces, why did they change the 07 instrument panel to light blue/white and the seats are much softer?
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