One easy way to make the interior look nice on a Cav is to make your knobs clear (AC, FAN, etc.). For newer Cav's it is very easy, take off the knobs (just pull... hard!!!) and peel off the black, plastic covering. They look way better and it is really easy to do.

I've seen cars with that done...thanks man i was wondering how that was done...it looks really cool

heh, anyway to change the bulb in the control unit to make the knobs glow blue?

maybe if you take it all apart you can unsolder the LED's they prob. use and solder in blue ones...? im not too sure

paint the insides of them what ever color you want with a GLASS paint.

and if you are not all ready, i suggest joing J-Body.org its a great place for J-Bodies like us!!

hey good idea...that would work well...but dont the Lights need to be bright enough to make them glow?

they are, i've seen it done. it looks great

i see. very nice idea then...have you seen other colors besides the blue?

Saw a guy around town with purple lights all over his dash. It was a good looking car.

hmm...purple...like purple purple or like a black-light shade of purple?

It is a dark purple, almost kind of blue. Kind of like the led light on the front of the PS2. I guess It does have kind of the same shade as blacklight, but not quite. It looked really good IMHO and I think the guy used red as a complimenting color.

Kind of like this (different car, I don't think this is quite the same color, but same idea)...

http://www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/roadtest/01.5.vw.passat/01.5.vw.passat.dash.500.jpg

I really wana do it, but i dont wana screw it up :(

that is cool. good color too.

Nah, done worry about it, there's no way to really screw it up. It is just kind of time consuming to get behind the dash and put in all of the lights. Just look up the stock light number for your car, then look around for custom bulbs with the same number. I would probably order several shades of the color you want (just one bulb a piece) and when you find the color you want, go with it.

Be careful though, my friend did all blue lights, and about 2 weeks of use the blue faded all away and they were just white.

man that sucks...were they cheap bulbs or something?

Yea, they were painted blue on the outside, so after a while the blue paint burnt off, so all that was left was a plain old white light. doh!!
So he got some better lights and they worked out fine.

something good to watch for...

I did this "mod" if you want to call it that. I pulled on the knobs, they came off semi easy. I used a hair dryer to heat up the plastic, melting the glue slightly to peel off the platic ouside. I then sanded and buffed the face of the knobs to get rid of all the ugly shards of plastic you have on the knobs. Then i used transparent model paint, and pained the backs of them blue. They look awesome at the daytime, and glow bright blue at night, very cool!