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[–] DannyBoy 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Funny that they use green LEDs because blue and white hadn't been invented yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

My eyes are screaming at me at the thought of a blue LED dashboard. My eyes struggle so hard with blue LED lights. I've wound up taping over every single blue LED due to this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Funnily enough the only example I know of of a blue lit dash was also Nissan circa 1990 or so in their Maximas. Unsure if they were doing other models blue around that time and it was an analog dash with blue back-lighting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly Volkswagen had this in the 2000 era as well

[–] maccentric 3 points 14 hours ago

They did. It wasn’t LED, but I thought it looked great; easy on the eyes and easy to read at night.