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RE: How to ambient door lights - rfoster88 - 18:th-Oct-2017
Thanks mate ill have to check them when they arrive
RE: How to ambient door lights - Dooks - 30:th-Dec-2017
Hi guys!
I have a plan to add some ambient light to the rear doors.
Do you maybe know if is there already any cable (prepararation for electric windows)? I have manual windows.
Car is Estate 2013.
Thanks!
RE: How to ambient door lights - Rusty2009 - 31:st-Dec-2017
(30:th-Dec-2017, 23:45:22)Dooks Wrote: Hi guys!
I have a plan to add some ambient light to the rear doors.
Do you maybe know if is there already any cable (prepararation for electric windows)? I have manual windows.
Car is Estate 2013.
Thanks!
The car I just did had all the wiring body side for rear electrics.
RE: How to ambient door lights - groovred - 1:st-Jan-2018
Dobrý den, toto je mé " domácí" osvětlení.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYMsjBEkz-Q&t=5s
RE: How to ambient door lights - Dooks - 1:st-Jan-2018
Hi,
i have in plan something lake this. Only for rear door. In front there is already ambient light, so that part i dont wont to touch.
I will buy this, and put in rear:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Red-Car-LED-Interior-Ambient-Light-Decorative-Lamp-Optical-fiber-Light-4-Source/112686204411?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649
Maybe in future in front to...
RE: How to ambient door lights - Dooks - 17:th-Jan-2018
(31:st-Dec-2017, 08:47:46)Rusty2009 Wrote:(30:th-Dec-2017, 23:45:22)Dooks Wrote: Hi guys!
I have a plan to add some ambient light to the rear doors.
Do you maybe know if is there already any cable (prepararation for electric windows)? I have manual windows.
Car is Estate 2013.
Thanks!
The car I just did had all the wiring body side for rear electrics.
Hi,
Where were cables hidden?
Behind rear speakers maybe or somewhere else?
Thanks!
RE: How to ambient door lights - eatmybogbrush - 6:th-Dec-2018
Thanks for this guide, just done my doors, strangely they did have the LEDs already in the door panel but no wiring typical Vauxhall!
So now have two door LEDs spare, would add get some door panel clips before doing this as I broke three 1 green two blue one's, why on earth they would but two different types on it.........
I cut them and used small connectors and then long wires and two female connectors on the LED end....works a treat now.
I thought they would go off like the interior lights would, do they from the factory or are they meant to stay on same as the gear stick surround?
Anyway grand job of the guide, I would not have done this without it.
Now to do the footwells and the boot.......
RE: How to ambient door lights - eatmybogbrush - 11:th-Jan-2019
Using this guide I fitted led's to the footwells and boot, found it easier to take the feed from the roof lights, now fade with the interior lights cool, much brighter than the pics show.
RE: How to ambient door lights - Mithrandir00 - 3:rd-Nov-2019
Hi,
First of all thanks for your time..
Could you post all the pictures again?
Some of then ara invisible or not focused.
Thanks
RE: How to ambient door lights - _Mita - 11:th-Nov-2020
Hey guys, some questions on the pins as I switched my door wiring and I'm having some issues.
I'm comparing my old wiring with the pinouts here and for the driver side the labeled wire isn't yellow it's red/brown and it's routed to pin 7 on the door connector which should be Battery positive instead of being pin 26 LED Backlight dimming control. I found pin 26 to be routed only to the mirror controler.
On the passenger side the wire is yellow, but routed to pin 31 which makes no sense at all.
Does anyone have an idea how this is routed exactly? It could help me with understanding issues with the new wiring I put inside for the power fold mirrors
RE: How to ambient door lights - Rusty2009 - 12:th-Nov-2020
(11:th-Nov-2020, 22:51:30)_Mita Wrote: Hey guys, some questions on the pins as I switched my door wiring and I'm having some issues.
I'm comparing my old wiring with the pinouts here and for the driver side the labeled wire isn't yellow it's red/brown and it's routed to pin 7 on the door connector which should be Battery positive instead of being pin 26 LED Backlight dimming control. I found pin 26 to be routed only to the mirror controler.
On the passenger side the wire is yellow, but routed to pin 31 which makes no sense at all.
Does anyone have an idea how this is routed exactly? It could help me with understanding issues with the new wiring I put inside for the power fold mirrors
What's posted here is really for the UK cars although mostly the same there are some differences.
You would really need to get wiring specific for your country.
RE: How to ambient door lights - _Mita - 13:th-Nov-2020
Thanks for the answer Rusty.
I expected some differences, but many things that I have checked up until now are the same. No luck here it seems.
RE: How to ambient door lights - Rusty2009 - 14:th-Nov-2020
(13:th-Nov-2020, 16:13:35)_Mita Wrote: Thanks for the answer Rusty.
I expected some differences, but many things that I have checked up until now are the same. No luck here it seems.
Try pin 26.
RE: How to ambient door lights - _Mita - 15:th-Nov-2020
Yes, that worked as expected, thanks!
LEDs work now. Just one note is that pin 26 isn't routed to the window controller on the driver side, but to the mirror controller, so just needed to splice there
RE: ambient lighting colour - Benk91 - 28:th-Mar-2021
Can the colour of the ambient lighting in the doors and geer stick be changed?