How To: Make ur foot wells glow
Since this has become a quite frequently talked about subject i decided to post my how to on the tm3 website... this is a guide for the person that know NOTHING about electrical at all i made it VERY simple and over explained everything so.... Enjoy your lights!
Plan..
your going to have 2 main wires
Wire A = POWER
Wire B = GROUND
Ground’s starting point can be ANYWERE best place to have it is the our central location ill talk about later on, ull need at at this location so it can be wired to everyone u want to use the LED’s
Power’s starting point MUST be at the fuse box and than wired to a central loaction so we can tap from it for all the LED’s we want to use.
Okay so that being said lets start off with power!
To get to the fuse box, which can be found on the passanger side under the glove box we must 1st take off the plastic cover like so ...
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Since there are 2 we must obviously take them both off, all you need to do is push the tabs to the proper side and it will come right down.
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Now that we have that off we can now see the fuse box ... well sorta its still being held up by 2 taps that simply twist off as shown below, just remove them and the fuse box will drop down.
now again since there are 2 we’ll need to unscrew them both and it will drop down .
okay so now we have access to our power source. To keep things easy ill just say use fuse 15 it is a constant power meaning when the cars in the lights are on..... Later on ill add how to wire it so it only works when the headlights are on (same way and just as easy!)
I will now explain the coloring i did ...
Red circle is simply just to show u what fuse it is
Green is our wire... what you need to do is pull the fuse out and squish the wire on one “tooth” of the fuse and then plug it back in.
Use some electrical tape to keep it in place so when if we pull on the wire later it won’t rip right out and also just to keep things neat.
feed the wire out into the center console not very hard to do...
to make life easier (this is only for manuals sry i don’t have an auto mby some 1 with a auto knows a way to do this and can chime in) we can pull up the center part. And jam our hands in there to pull the wire to our CENTRAIL LOCATION! Make sure u use tape to keep everything in place and make sure u always have ENOUGH WIRE TO GET TO WHERE U WANT TO GO!
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okay so this is how we remove the plastic to get ur car to look like the pic above!
ull need to 1st unscrew the shift knob and then get ur fingers under the leather and pull directly up it will lift up the center storage and simply lift that part up as well with ur fingers and the cup holder and plastic around the shift knob will come right up, (u can separate the 2 by pushing the plastic around the shift knob down
Okay so now that were all opened up and have fed our power from the fuse box to our CENTERAL LOCATION we can start running power every were (driver passenger + both back seat foot wells)
I personally used the MAIN wire at the driver side because i can than tape the wires up along the center console walls all the way back n make sure it’s all out of the way.
It should look like this...
everything is labeled but ill do it again here.
from FUSE to DRIVER
Tap 1 = passanger
Tap 2 = back seat
Tap 3 = back seat
u can tap from any were along the wire just make sure u electrical tape it so no bare wire is showing!
Now that we have all our power clean up the mess of wires as u see fit i loomed all mine and tucked them along the wall and taped them so they couldn’t pull or get stuck in the shifter.
Okay so we have power but no ground!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s finish this and get some lights!
okay so for ground we know that all we need is bare metal...
this is where the only actual tool is required. Since we have these fancy shifters we see 4 screws all around it holding it down
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I have labelld the approx. Location of them off i may be off by a few cm’s no biggy
use anyone i personally used the dark orange it felt like the best choice to me
now again same as we did b 4...
from GROUND to BACK SEATS
Tap 1 = Driver
Tap 2 = passenger
Again make sure the wires are all out of the way from anything like the shifter.... also re member it doesn’t matter where u splice the wire from just tape it up!
CLEAN UP YOUR MESS IT SUCKS HAVING TO GO BACK TO A HUGE MESS OF WIRES IN CASE WE DID SOMETHING WRONG (we didn’t but still better to keep it clean)
Okay so now we have 2 sets of wires running to each footwell all we need to do is attach the leds !
If u used ozonium the copper wire should be ground IF MIX THE GROUND AND POWER UR CALL WILL CATCH FIRE... jk it won’t nothing will happen ur lights won’t turn on all you have to to is switch them.
TIP – don’t stick them up anywhere yet let them dangle and u can now see u have ALOT of extra wire since ozonium give u A LOT! n/p don’t worry about that for now
just twist the wires together power to power and ground to ground and tape it up, again no bare wire showing!!!!!!!
Okay so now we have a complete circuit... now we just need to add power how do we do that some of u may ask?
Well turn on the car!
Since we wired these up to be on as soon as the car starts we should get light as soon as the car turns on
if not review ur wires.. 99% of the time u put a ground to power just switch it ull be okay!
if ur lost ask questions here ill update this as i see fit
PICS OF THE DONE!
Back seats:
My hand
with a laptop down there
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Driver side
passanger side
as u can see my foot and shoe with the lights on them and my other foot and shoe without (in daylight)
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