I’ve been driving around Protaras yesterday and since my CarPC is being in the process of upgrade, I found my phone’s GPS navigation pretty handy a couple of times. It successfully guided through shortcuts, on my way home, beating Protaras’ awful afternoon traffic. Unfortunately my Glanza, unlike my dad’s 2006 Toyota Yaris RS, has very […]
Interior mods
Toyota Door Sills
Glove box compartment lighting
One thing I always missing from my car, was opening the glove box compartment in a dark night, and be able find what you are actually looking for (rather to the traditional blind trial & error method) 😛 All it took to fulfill my dream (duh), was four 10mm LEDs (supposed to output 12-15 lumens), […]
Carbon fiber look dials surrounding
Ebay did it again! Once more, the evil seductive auction site, returned an interesting item for my glanza related keywords search. This time it was a carbon fiber sticker for the dials’ surrounding plastic. The original carbon fiber surrounding from TRD, costs almost as high as €200!!! So I decided to follow the cheap way. […]
A/C Controls LED Lighting
I got kinda bored of the standard green-ish A/C controls found on most Japanese cars produced in 90’s. So one day I decided to give it a try and make something different. Make my Glanza a bit unique 🙂 After several attempts I decided lighting up the controls using orange LEDs (like the dash’s dials), […]
Electroluminated dials
TRD Quickshifter & Knob
I must admit that one of my least favorite mods, was the quick/short shifter. I got the official Toyota (TRD) quickshift kit, hoping to see some improvement at the gear changing. The installation was pretty straight forward. Normally takes 30-60 mins. There was indeed an improvement. The distance of my hand’s movement for each gear […]