Interior Lighting.

[GALLA_4]

Hello All,

Is there any good websites or have you guys any experience modding the interior lighting of your cars? I dont mean the dials, I mean like the roof light, footwells maplights etc. I have tried replacing the bulbs in the dome light and the maplights to blue LED;s and they are not all they are cracked up to be. I would like to have a nice blue floodlit interior but with these stupid LED bulbs I am a good bit off the mark yet!

[Zee007]

Hi mate,

Try UltraLEDs.

Also - I did a quick search for you and found two threads on interior lighting posted over the last 2 weeks that I think you may find helpful:

Topic 1

Topic 2

:)

[GALLA_4]

Hi Zee

Thanks but the crappy LED's I was talking about were from ultraleds! They look a bit homemade-ish. They are like the poor mans cathodes.

[Colin P]

so why not just install an LED stip in each footwell? shouldn't be too hard, presumably you would use the same wores as you would for the illuminated sill plates?

[GALLA_4]

Hi CP409135

Wores??? Excuse my dumbness this morning but how would you go about wiring cathodes into the footwells? Is there a certain wire to tap into? Would you need to put them on a switch?etc etc etc

[Colin P]

well, you could connect them to the same wires that connect to the illuminated scuff plates/red light on the door so for instance when the door is open the footwells light up. I think you're better off with an LED strip rather than a neon strip cuz they draw less current.

i'm no electrical expert so please dont attampt anything based on my knowledge but that's what i'd do! Someone more knowledgable can advise you before I encourage you to blow something up (i'm too busy doing that to my car)

Or, I'm sure you could wire them separately and have a switch similar to what i'm doing with a neon strip in the boot.