My Modified Valentine One

[FailedSenses]

So, I saw this done by quite a few other people and I decided to tackle it myself. I wasn't happy with distinguishing the visual warnings of my V1 at night between the different bands, so something needed to be done obviously I also wasn't happy with people knowing I had a radar detector during those night drives because that little bugger would illuminate my whole cabin! The solution? Getting a concealed display and modifying it to fit MY needs. I changed out the LEDs for 3 out of the 4 bands to easily distinguishable colors and now night time warnings are not only colorful, but very easy to determine. I'm very happy with how my unit came out.

I mounted the concealed display where the hazard light button used to be and it looks pretty good I must say. I'll post pics of the new location sometime soon. I've been running this for 3 weeks now and it's great... I definitely recommend doing this. I say buy one from those selling the modified units here on the forums or try and tackle it yourself! It's a fun little project.

Stock colors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuPI45CLHMk

Modified colors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SduZvF9Roc

Here are some pictures of my setup:

V1 unit to the left of the rear view mirror and the display is underneath the clock.


Closer view of the display.


Angled shot... stylish.

[MerkXRTurbo]

Cool, looks nice! 8)

[m3sport]

Stealth and smooth..Nice Job on that!

[thestaton]

sweet install, sweet EVO.

[FailedSenses]

sweet install, sweet EVO.

Thanks staton Same as yours, black... just not as quick... yet.

[mrwhitefolk]

Sweet install and light mod!

[03Maxima]

i was wondering if there is a particular place that you purchased the components for your mod?

[FailedSenses]

i was wondering if there is a particular place that you purchased the components for your mod?

Yup, I got my LEDs from LSDiodes.com (I got the 0805 orange, blue, and green). They are sold out of blue at this time so you can head over to eLED.com for those. Good luck [/url]

[03Maxima]

thanks for the info, i'll check it out