mcskibadee1
Adventurer
Hey guys,
So seeing that half my interior lights were bad when I bought my car I decided to change them to LEDS. This helped a lot but I wanted more. I liked the idea of being able to have extra lighting that worked as if it were factory. I wanted the lights to turn on when the doors were open, closed or always on. Basically whichever you chose on your light switch in the front or rear.
This literally took me less than 20 minutes. The rear took longer because attaching the wires was more of a *****. Other than that this a great inexpensive upgrade.
I purchased these from amazon for less than $7 dollars for the pair.
I started by taking out the sunroof switch and the overhead light switch. I screwed the ground wire to the ground like in the pic and soldered the red wire to the positive cable. Honestly, you don't have to solder it if you pry it up a little and wrap the wire around but I just wanted to be safe.
With the switches out it is easy to run the LED COB through the liner and out the back. In hindsight I should have drilled a hole in the headliner for the cable to run through for a cleaner look. You will see in the last pic what I am talking about. Truth is, I didn't feel like soldering that with the switch hanging, I should have waited for a friend to help.
Here it is installed. Its hard to tell but I drilled 4 holes in the headliner ( 2 at each end) so I could put a zip tie at each end to hold it in place. If you don't do this it will eventually come undone. It does have 3M sticky tape but do the right thing first and make it secure. I also did the zip tie in the rear light as well. I stickier it to the plastic but it eventually would fall and hang.
I did basically the same thing to the back as well.
The front on.
Anyway, the light output is amazing. I do notice that it gets 12 volts per my multimeter but in the ON position they get VERY bright. In the DOOR position they are bright but not as bright as they are in the ON position. I was in a hurry but I will do a couple more tests to see what the true voltage is in each position.
Hope you guys like it!
So seeing that half my interior lights were bad when I bought my car I decided to change them to LEDS. This helped a lot but I wanted more. I liked the idea of being able to have extra lighting that worked as if it were factory. I wanted the lights to turn on when the doors were open, closed or always on. Basically whichever you chose on your light switch in the front or rear.
This literally took me less than 20 minutes. The rear took longer because attaching the wires was more of a *****. Other than that this a great inexpensive upgrade.
I purchased these from amazon for less than $7 dollars for the pair.
I started by taking out the sunroof switch and the overhead light switch. I screwed the ground wire to the ground like in the pic and soldered the red wire to the positive cable. Honestly, you don't have to solder it if you pry it up a little and wrap the wire around but I just wanted to be safe.
With the switches out it is easy to run the LED COB through the liner and out the back. In hindsight I should have drilled a hole in the headliner for the cable to run through for a cleaner look. You will see in the last pic what I am talking about. Truth is, I didn't feel like soldering that with the switch hanging, I should have waited for a friend to help.
Here it is installed. Its hard to tell but I drilled 4 holes in the headliner ( 2 at each end) so I could put a zip tie at each end to hold it in place. If you don't do this it will eventually come undone. It does have 3M sticky tape but do the right thing first and make it secure. I also did the zip tie in the rear light as well. I stickier it to the plastic but it eventually would fall and hang.
I did basically the same thing to the back as well.
The front on.
Anyway, the light output is amazing. I do notice that it gets 12 volts per my multimeter but in the ON position they get VERY bright. In the DOOR position they are bright but not as bright as they are in the ON position. I was in a hurry but I will do a couple more tests to see what the true voltage is in each position.
Hope you guys like it!
