What bulb for console light to change to red?

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Has anybody changed the console light from white to red? The area where you would put your phone, and where the USB port is.
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This seems interesting. Were you able to get this done?

I wanted to change the LED in the map light assembly to white instead of the flame blue that comes stock.

98-0425, the hardest part is probably just getting access to the board that the LED is mounted on. Once you get access to it, it's just a matter of unsoldering the old LED and soldering on a replacement one that burns a different colour. The cost of the job is probably a $20 soldering iron from a hardware store and a $3 LED that you can buy on a parts site like DigiKey. The hardest part is getting access to the assembly that holds the LED.
 
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Someone else soldered red leds. I just left it. Getting to the assemblies requires removing dash pieces.
 

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If you open the cover, you will see the original LEDs on the board, check the voltage of the LEDs, and you can re-solder the new color LEDs.
 

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This is really ghetto, but this is what I am doing. Buying some red cellophane and taping it in front of each LED bulb inside the console. You can't see it and only I will know. Well my wife knows, already made fun of me. But hey..
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