Door pocket lights

[Noisy Crow]

One of the OEM options on the 3 is "door pocket illumination", for about $180. Did anyone get this with their car? Has anyone tried installing them themselves? The wiring is probably in there already....

[FLIPDADY]

All the wiring needs to be installed. The screwed up part is that the kit comes with separate switches. I'm sure there's a way to hook it up to the door switch so they turn on/off when you open or close the doors.

[Skarbro]

:ttiwwp

[Noisy Crow]

Maybe Joe can find a better pic.... I don't have anywhere to host pictures right now, so this will have to do:

http://www.mazda.ca/files/2008_mazda3_accBro_en.pdf

Lefthad side, second picture from the bottom.

[Noisy Crow]

Also....

Joe you said "separate switches"..... where would these switches be located? Could we maybe used them for something else?

[yearoftherat]

Japanparts lists them @ 170.00US and comes with switches

http://www.japanparts.com/images/ImageFromDB.php?base=1&no=8638

[McGuyver_3]

this motivates me to replicate something similar i knew keeping my old door panels would be worth it. I will keep you posted

[dumpbear]

I've got em' on my car. They look sweet. The switches are right on each LED unit - a small flip switch.

They only annoying thing about them is that they are either ON or OFF, all the time. Mine aren't tied to either the door or headlights.

I usually just leave them ON all of the time now, as it is far too much work to lean over to the passenger side every evening/morning to switch. ;-)