Interior color replacement Xantia

[Niikoolaaa]

Hi guys, i'm new on forum. I have one problem. I'm going to replace all green interior light to red and blue. Is there a way to change the color of the plastic ashtrays and Climate, because they have glued green plastic. I' will buy t5 red diode but i think that i'm not going to get clear red light on ashtray and climate any help?

[Hell Razor5543]

Hi, and welcome to the forum (I can see you have been here since April, but this is your first post). Other than this, I cannot offer any advise.

[Zelandeth]

I've always preferred red for dash lighting as well (amber is acceptable as well, as seen on 80s Nissans), and did a complete red LED conversion on a Lada Niva many years ago.

Blue in my book is a complete no-no. The only car I've ever seen a colour scheme involving blue actually working was the late 90s/early 00s VWs.

The Xantia does present a few challenges - if I remember right the rear of the instrument panel faces is solid green plastic as well (I stand to be corrected there as I've never actually had one apart) which would also make injecting red light difficult. If that's the case your best bet there if you really want to go ahead with that might be to front-light the dash faces.

The heater controls are a problem. I don't think the green plastic separates from the face, the one solution you might be able to get to work (get a scrap one to work on!) would be to file away the green plastic from the back until you either get rid of it entirely or get a thin enough layer that you can get the light you want through it.

It's a task I was pondering doing on my first Saab, but eventually lost interest for exactly the sort of reasons you're encountering here! Most of the light to the heater and lighting controls there is via green coloured light pipes, and I decided the engineering a replacement for that was just too much of a headache.