LED backlighting of the stove control unit - Toyota Paseo, 1.5 liter, 1999

I just completed the installation of such a space stove control.

I'll tell you in detail, because Without outside help, I would not have coped, but here a fresh look helped.

Let's start. Here's what it was originally:

Silvery sticker like from a childhood magazine, 1 blue LED backlight. At night you can't see anything.
As the autopsy showed, 2 were missing, 1 just lay in the block, fallen out of the nest, like a chick. Still, the size of the socket for the light bulb did not fit at all, but the last owner still stuffed one LED. I dug a little.

I took off the lining and with a glue remover (advertisers usually have this and those who glue with oracle film) removed the remnants of the sticky substance. Nail polish remover should NOT be used, even the most gentle one, even without acetone. Corrodes plastic, checked =)

The surface has become soft and silky clean and rough, this liquid mattifies simply gorgeously.

Next, I completely dismantled the control unit of the stove spacecraft.

The subtleties of disassembly (applicable to other cars, the principle is the same):

1) The fastening of the cables (indicated in orange) is quite tenacious, especially when dismantling.
We bend the middle ears and pull the cable sheath, pushing with a screwdriver. To do in 4 hands, otherwise it is inconvenient and can be broken.
2) Krutelki hold on very tightly and you need to solve a big puzzle to dismantle them.
Step by step:
2.1) I marked in red the ears that need to be bent (carefully!) so that the regulator starts to be removed.
2.2) Below is a metal plate (it is she who strikes when the position of the regulator is changed), which must be carefully pressed down.
2.3) Getting into the grooves for complete removal, everything is quite simple here.
The most disgusting thing is that everything is holding tight and I repeatedly caught myself thinking that "I'll break it off right now!"

I glued the LED strips, brought out a LOT of wires along the native fasteners, soldered them to the wires of the native backlight (the native wires are stupidly blue, it is better to find out the polarity in advance, using the scientific poke method, and not like me, digging out the car ONLY for the polarity test =)

And in the end, this is what we have in the dark.
ps The camera is bad, it is old ...

z.s.s. Somehow I got there without a control unit, while I was doing it, from one end of the city to the other.
This is a Japanese car, so if there is no limit switch, the stove will not work. Therefore, I stomp behind the disassembled block, put the passenger (goofed) holding this connected block, and myself, as in a puppet theater, pull the cables, "Schaub went warm ..."