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Running LED sidelights/fogs - No Errors... lots of pics
I finally got round to doing a bit of wiring on the car, Rubbish weather so i was "allowed" to play with the vec rather then finishing the Decking
I'm going to be running standard 501 LED's in my side lights and as Fog lights - But i'll be running them off switches so i can overide the "normal" light switch (it'll make sense later)
1st of all I had to find a place for the switches, I tried to knock something up with the removable ashtray part but there so brittle it disintegrated after about a minute- so used a bit of wood instead...
I've just coloured it in with permanent marker for now, Will probably use a bit of carbon fibre vinyl later, but at the min a like the look of the wood grain coming through
This is where i have taken the feed from, from the rear heated seat blocks under the rear vents. Using the MIDDLE yellow/grey wire and any of the plain browns (there's 2 each block)... using the illumination wire the LED's will come on with your keyfob when you unlock the car, and come on when you use your normal headlight switch - just like the rest of the dash lights
If you dont have these blocks (mines an 03 pre face) you can use the illumination wire from the cig lighter light or ashtray light - I could have used the astray light but i have future plans for that feed
Probably no need to join together as i did but the wires individually are so thin I thought it couldn't hurt to so the wire connectors had something to crimp tight against.
Using ordinary speaker wire I joined to the Illumination and earth and ran through to the ashtray underneath the handbrake and gear stick - No need to take the arm rest out, if you pull out the coin tray/drinks holder this bits easier... pull and twist it up from the drivers side 1st...
I'm running 3 switches, ignore this bit if you dont want switches but i want to be able to overide the main headlight switch for M.O.T time etc and can put the normal bulb holders back in place for the side lights... 3 more connectors - 1 for each switch...
Then more speaker wire needed to connect the power and earth to the switches as they are illuminating ones
Then using 2 of the switches, i have taken the power feed for the side lights, and for the fogs... Red wire for the fogs, black wire for the Side lights - if your not fitting switches just run the speaker wires like in pic 4/5 straight though to the engine bay...
Remove the glove box using a torx 20?! bit, then feed the 2 wires though the giant rubber gromet in the bulk head. No pic taken but hard to miss... Popped the wires through between the battery tray and fuse box, then neatly capped them and cable tied them to the Negative feed on the battery just to keep it neet and will finish this bit tomo
Switches in all there glory... ON position
Had a green switch too but the LED was so rubbish I used the orange instead...
RED = not telling
ORANGE = side lights
BLUE = foglights
Tomorrows plans are to fit these should be quite simple...
Bottom of pic are Vec B side light holders, same fit a C but the c's where hard to find in the scrappy... Top are for the fogs. Going to drill a 10mm hole into the fogs and pop in place and twist lock just like the do for sidelights on the corsa i stole them off
Obviously its just a case of taking the live from each of the capped wires in the battery tray now, and then i can earth them next the the battery tray, loads of earth points in that wing...
The standard sidelight holders will remain in place inside the removable cap, but not in the hole, but i will cap them with tinfoil possibly or similar and tape them up... Will update more tomo...
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