I wanted to share my latest interior mods. First I swapped the dome lights with white LEDs...



Next I did the footwells. I conected them to the dome light circut so they go on and off with doors...







And then I did the glovebox and both armrest boxes...





Lastly, the licence plate..

 

woah, that looks pretty cool! i have cathodes installed where the footrests are and also in the back seats and are wired so that they turn on when the doors are opend but i never thought about the glove box or armrest. good thinking! nice stuff

 

maybe think about putting some on the bottom of the sideskirt and wiring them into the dome light circuit.... nighttime foot lighting as you get into the car. seems classy to me/

 

they already make that for the tc. lol its somewhere on the threads. puddle lamps or whatevers.

 

Where did u get ur license plates LED's from they look awesome!!

 

yes i know they do, that's where i got the idea from. this guy seems as if he likes to do things himself, so i just suggested the idea.

 

oh, my bad :X well, i'm glad you didnt take my comment the wrong way.

you know what would look different? if you had some individual leds on the pillars .. and wire them to the door so that when you open the doors, it lights up the entire inside. lol

 

that would be kinda difficult, there's no way to run the wire on the inside of the pillar w/o drilling holes and fishing for the wire.

 

Rob i hate ur tC makes me so jealous!!
hows the system hitting??

 

I need to know where you tapped into the wires for the dome. Was it in the circuit box? or under the hood? PLEASE give a pic of this and provide detail. I keep reading to tap into the door trigger, but where exactly and what color is it and I'm confused about the grounding also. PLEASE give us much detail as possible oh mighty one

Really though, where did you tap into and how exactly. I want to wire some cathodes under my door and in footwell to turn on when I open door. I just am not as clear as I should be about where and how to tap into. Plus is it different on the passenger side? Do both turn on with one door open? Once again, pictures would be great also. Thanks in advance! This would be a great help.

 

i'm not good at explaining how i do stuff but you can search "cathode install" or something using the search. i made a thread not too long ago asking. i got my Qs answered and such in that thread.

anyways, i got this pic from somebody else on this forum. it shows where you should tap into for the positive and negative so that the cathodes turn on and off when the doors open and close. there is another way which involves splicing into the wires near each door but for some reason it didnt work for me so i decided to tap into the fuse box which workers better cuz no matter which door opens, all my cathodes turn on

 

NICE!!! how did you wire up the glove box? is there a kill switch or does it go on with the head lights? it looks dope man. good job! =]

 

Those 'hidden' LEDs strips look clean. I'm not too fond of the red. Good job!

 

Not a huge fan of the red either, but those strips look really, really cool.

The spotlight effect makes it look like a luxury interior.

 

Thanks for the responses guys. To answer a few questions:

The glove box and armrest lights turn on and off with the headlights. I spliced them into the cubby light under the HVAC controls. The glove box still needs a little tweaking, I need to drill out the holes a little more so that the LEDs protrude out beyond the plastic to get more spill light. As you can see right now it looks like a pair of spot lights.

As for the red color, I'm planning on swapping all the dash/ gauge lights to red and I wanted them to match.

I hooked up the foot well lights using the same method yellowxboy posted. I'm considering adding 12" led tubes under the doors to act as puddle lights, but not until after some non-lighting mods.

I should also point out that the license plate LEDs aren't as bright as they look in the pic.

 

Oh yea, I got all the lights from http://www.superbrightleds.com/

 

might also be a good idea to take a little piece of sand paper and rough up the ends of the LEDs to make the light spread more evenly.

 

how long did that take?
easy or hard?

 

It was pretty easy, I did it over a couple of weekends. I went all-out with the wiring and made up my own quasi-wire harness with quick disconnects for each light. One of the hardest parts was cutting out the hole for the passenger side foot well light, I used a dremmel and cut from the back side. It gave a clean cut but it was hard to get a perfectly straight line. The hardest part was running the wire from the LED in the arm rest lid down through the two hinges in a way that can't be seen and doesn't get pinched.

 

I wish I found that picture it would of help soooooo much!!!! Hey did you ever get pics of the lights yet.

P.S I like the idea of putting the leds in the arm rest.