In car lighting

[stevies5_mufc]

interested at putting some LED's in the footwells in the front of my clio, anyone know how i would go about wiring them in though? i preferably dont want to just plug them into the cigarette lighter directly

 

[Aluco]

Don't bother.

 

[stevies5_mufc]

lol why dont bother?

 

[Aluco]

Because they look s**t and go dim, also when you're driving at night you have a dodgy glow shining up onto you illuminating you to everyone else on the road.

 

[stevies5_mufc]

but you have a switch to turn them off, it aint for when driving along lol

 

[Aluco]

First two points still stand.

 

[lamborgini8]

Unless you just want them to turn on when you open the doors I agree with above.

Im not sure how its done but it is possible, your best bet is to buy a haynes manual and look at the wiring diagrams. Then wire up the LEDs to the interior light so that they turn on when you open the doors and off when you shut the door.

Lot's of people are going to disagree with me on this but I think they look good depending on colour. Foot well lights come as standard on the Ford C-Max and they look really good.

 

[jack_davey]

Just use an empty slot in from the fuse box and run a live from there, I've thought about doing it before, handy to be able to see if you drop something etc

 

[PaulBag]

You get kits off ebay, wee bendy strips of LED's. These are simply wired up, they provide all instructions etc as well. I hand them in a wee Renault 5 i had for the fields when i was younger and they worked really well.

Although i do agree they look a bit naf, unless they come on with the interior light.

 

[DannoTheGreat]

same answer as aluco