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Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

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Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by BlackSapphireZ » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:39 am

oh and LED interior dome light... ALL decked out with white LED"s despite the yellow-ness on the floor...

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by epbrown » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:13 am

How'd you mount the LEDs underneath the mirrors?
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by Jas667 » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:34 am

Yeah the mirror 1s are v.cool. Id be interested in hearing how u done that

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by fire-n-ice » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:00 pm

Dayum that looks good! :o
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by chariszzzz » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:23 pm

i like the LEDs inside the car.. what are they??

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by BlackSapphireZ » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:13 pm

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by sixspeed » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:41 pm

Looks very nice! Any chance of a how-to? ;)

I was going to take my mirror caps off soon to have them painted along with the front bumper (to get rid of all the stone chips). Would be nice to do this mod whilst I have them apart....

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by JackB1 » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:17 pm

Very Nice! Excellent upgrade and really stands out! :thumbsup:

Look forward to DIY write up with parts and where to buy.
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by ovrkll » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:40 pm

^^ Ditto!
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by mister_roger » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:37 am

Me likes. Please share with us all!! :D

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by BlackSapphireZ » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:19 am

its simple...run the wires to the dome light. wire the LED"s and BAM u got em!

im not gonna have time to do it. going on a 10 day cruise soon :)

as far as the LED"s i bought one of those pictured that have 194 bulb base and cut the base to fit in the mirror assy. sealed with rubber sealant and ran the wires to the dome light with pit stops at the foot well.
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by 20ducks » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:04 am

Looks good, question(s): any fault codes thrown yet? On a scale of 1 to 10, how easy was it to snake through rubber door conduit?

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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by BlackSapphireZ » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:26 am

1)no fault code... why?
2)i didn't i just ran outside in between the doors. just covered them with elec tape. half ass, gets the job done.


if I might add.... the ground at the dome light doesn't like all the added wires so the negative wire for the added lights need to be grounded to the chassis which I did inside of the dome light on the Windshield header...If i knew of this sooner, I would have grounded it elsewhere but found out after i wired everything and found it didn't work. after few tests...ground was lacking.
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by Traxxer » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:53 am

Did you use 194 LEDS for the courtesy lights?
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Re: Courtesy Ligh&Footwell Lighting

Post by BlackSapphireZ » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:59 am

i used the same LED for footwell and mirror because they have wide viewing angle but they were 194 bulb base which made it easier rather than having me solder my own resistors.
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