xTeCaOx

ok heres the deal..... im hooking up leds in my door handles and i want it to turn on when i unlock my doors with my keyless entry and to turn off when i start the car..... exactly how the dome light works (it turns on when i hit unlock and turns off when i lock it with the keyless entry.......... so my question is what wire do i tap into thats nearby the door handles or anywhere remotely close to it because i have the LEDs hooked up with about 5 ft of wire........... please help out ....

here some pics of how its gonna look

during the day


at night


and its a white LED not blue, it just looks blue in the pic

nismos14

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Trace the wire from the dome light.

Metal Maxima

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Easier said than done.

It's going to take alot more than 5 feet of wire in order to tap the relay...I would suggest taking the dome light off, then finding the wire colors...the wire to the dome will be loctaed in the harness by the clutch pedal, behind the kickpanel.

xTeCaOx

holy damn im gonna need alot of wire............... and will the light not be as bright if the wire is longer?? or does that even matter

unrealii

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get a service manual, then u dont need to go around tracing colors because you will already know which ones to go after.

xTeCaOx

where can i get as service manual like a chiltons

KabirUTA13

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id trace it to the light in ur key hole thing on the steering column... alot closer!

xTeCaOx

but the thing with the key ring is that i made it leds also but now it doesnt turn off right away when i lock the doors anymore.......it takes awhile to turn off its like 10-15min later.......

xTeCaOx

hey man i cant find the friggin wire....... where the hell is it........... is it behind the silver box??

Metal Maxima

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That is a problem with your wiring, not the LEDs.

xTeCaOx

yua?? hmmmmmm i hooked it str8 into the plug that originally had the bulb, i got 4 leds in that bad boy.....

-Sin-

Hmmm, I not sure but I thought there are lights in all the doors? My 98 had it and my 05 has it, I think. Can't you tap off that?

buttonhook

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Yeah,the puddle lights on the bottom of the door they come on with the dome light right?

djfrestyl

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WTF is an ELECTICAL GURU?

Pearl96Max

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You should just be able to use your door trigger wires.

Find lt. blue for the drivers door in pin 29, red/blue for the passenger front door in pin 40, and red/white for the rear doors in pin 28. Use all 3 wires and diode isolate each.

Or as mentioned the courtesy lights on each door.

Pearl96Max

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Dunno, but what does that have to do with this thread?

xTeCaOx

the courtesy lights dont turn on when i unlock the doors tho.......... an electrical guru is just something that i was refering to as someone who knows alot about electronics.... but i will try the courtesy to see if that works

djfrestyl

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Just tap your LEDs at the given pins.

I was poking fun at your spelling mistake...

xTeCaOx

ok what does that mean exactly...tap into the pins??....blue for the drivers door in pin 29, red/blue for the passenger front door in pin 40, and red/white for the rear doors in pin 28. Use all 3 wires and diode isolate each.
how and where

djfrestyl

iTrader: (89)

That is where you are going to get your power. Tap/splice your leds into those wires and make sure you use diodes in between the source wire and your leds, to ensure that your leds dont fry.


btw thats lt blue, as in light blue, for the drivers door in pin 29.

xTeCaOx

oh ok i used a 270 ohm resistor for each led so im ok with the led not frying..............how do i know whch pin and what not, does that mean just the color of the wire??

Pearl96Max

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No, theyre all negative, so constant power to the LED and the other end would get ground from these.

All wires are at the SECU.

xTeCaOx

ok ive done it ......... i just ran all the wires to the dome light and everything works fine now, it was kinda annoying to run the wires but i did it without problem, ill have pics up tonight of how they look

xTeCaOx

also another thing that i noticed while i was trying to run the wires is that when i was loosening this bolt so that i could run the wires through my door speaker just shut off, once i got the bolt off i realized that it was actually a plug that all the door wires went into and i couldnt run the wires through it, and so i was wondering that MAYBE this might be the problem with all the guys on here that complain about their speaker just shutting off becuase the bolt was already a little loose when i started so if those guys would just tighten it and it MIGHT fix the ole speaker problem.....its a 10mm by the way

djfrestyl

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D'oh.

Well, now I've learned something too

djfrestyl

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You can drill through your kickpanel and it will come out under that hinge in order to avoid that unsightly wire going through your door jamb.

SDB318

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when ur all done u should do a write up on this. its pretty hot

xTeCaOx

sorry for the sh*ty pics ill use my other cam later

ok its done here are a few pics at different angles ill get a write up soon

djfrestyl

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They look good, but you have them on while driving?

I thought they were just going to flash/dim out when unlocking/opening the door.

mendon99

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xTecao what size LED and mcd did you use? 1 for each handle in the middle?

i like this idea, think ill try it.

xTeCaOx

they only come on when i unlock the doors and turn off when i lock the doors......
and i used 5mm 10,000mcd LEDs i drilled a hole with my dremel on the door handle right here where the picture shows
i then shaved the led so it was flat and then buffed it and polished it as best i could so that it would give an even glow instead of a direct light that LEDs produce

SDB318

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is this the write up here^^^ or r u going to make a full detailed one cause this is pretty cool and i would like to know how u did it