I'm still getting around to adding additional LED lighting to my trunk and frunk (I actually a different approach for these, but you guys'll have to wait to see it when I'm done--waiting for parts from China :tongue
, but in the meantime, I've added a strip of 3 LED's to the glove box.
1. Scrounged an unused cover for my computer case and bent it straight, then screwed it in the back side of the existing glove box light holder/cover:
2. Added some heat-shrink tubing to make sure the wires stayed in place (the LED strip already has a sticky back, but I wanted to make sure things didn't go anywhere--unlikely anyway as everything is so light).
Here's a view of the side that is facing the interior of the glove box:
3. Connected and secured my female connector (white) to the existing glove box light connector (black) (the wires on the other end of my connector are actually first soldered to 2 pins that are to be inserted into the backside of the existing glove box light connector, then I added shrink tubing (yellow) to the soldered connector wires/pins assembly after I soldered the pins). As I didn't want to modify the existing glove box light connector, I used a tie (orange) to secure everything (if I ever have to remove the light, I can simply unscrew the LED assembly from the cover from step 1, and simply cut the tie and pull out my pins):
4. Connected the plugs, shoved everything back and replaced the lid. Voila. More light:
Sorry about the quality of the pictures and lack of intermediary steps. I figured people could figure out what I did, but if there are people interested and want to know more, I can try to take more pictures.
-EJ
, but in the meantime, I've added a strip of 3 LED's to the glove box.1. Scrounged an unused cover for my computer case and bent it straight, then screwed it in the back side of the existing glove box light holder/cover:
2. Added some heat-shrink tubing to make sure the wires stayed in place (the LED strip already has a sticky back, but I wanted to make sure things didn't go anywhere--unlikely anyway as everything is so light).
Here's a view of the side that is facing the interior of the glove box:
3. Connected and secured my female connector (white) to the existing glove box light connector (black) (the wires on the other end of my connector are actually first soldered to 2 pins that are to be inserted into the backside of the existing glove box light connector, then I added shrink tubing (yellow) to the soldered connector wires/pins assembly after I soldered the pins). As I didn't want to modify the existing glove box light connector, I used a tie (orange) to secure everything (if I ever have to remove the light, I can simply unscrew the LED assembly from the cover from step 1, and simply cut the tie and pull out my pins):
4. Connected the plugs, shoved everything back and replaced the lid. Voila. More light:
Sorry about the quality of the pictures and lack of intermediary steps. I figured people could figure out what I did, but if there are people interested and want to know more, I can try to take more pictures.
-EJ
