Originally Posted by MMZ_TimeLord
In the first post (If you read it yet again) you will note that I had purchased the accessory part 'Illuminated Sill Plates'. These generally cost just over $200 new from the dealer (prices may vary).
I happened to get mine from a forum member who had decided not to install their set.
You MUST have these to begin the 'mod' of this accessory. If you do not, the original sill plates on the Crossfire (SRT6 has them too) will only have a stamped lettered 'Crossfire' on it and not the cut out like the illuminated sill plates.
A conversion of the stock ones could be done, but it would probably require the use of a CNC mill to or CNC laser engraver type machine to cut out your letters where they are stamped now and this would be very expensive, probably more than the accessory kit itself.
Cheers!
MMZ,
This thread does not mention from WHERE you obtained the sill plates frs from. I was just asking some simple information, not to be told for me to READ the forums.
Your first POST on page 1 of this thread
I am not trying to start anything here but i thought this forum was for us to help each other.
Well, I got the illuminated sill plates and I got the replacement parts I wanted and you get a tutorial.
The original plates come as a light blue color when lit. This is nice, but I wanted to change it to purple (wife's favorite color).
So I went in search of one inch wide Electro-Luminescent Tape. I found it at:
www.beingseen.com. I ordered it on the phone so I could get less than 20+ feet which is the smallest amount you can order on their online store. I could not order purple tape itself, but rather they had white EL tape and a purple film to put over it. This would probably work for a variety of colors or even alternating letter/word colors, etc.
They suggested I get them to put on the connections, include two inverters and leave the tape in a single piece. I will probably suggest that you let them put on the connections if you are not able to solder well. I also would suggest you only let them send you one inverter as the second one for me is just going to be used for experimentation on the leftover tape.
Next step was disassembling the original illuminated sill plates and replacing the blue tape with the new white tape and purple film.
Here is the original kit.