As promised here are the pictures of my custom ambient footwell LED lights.
For those that did not read the posts about the OEM Mopar footwell lighting kit I will give you a heads up on what I did and why I did it.
I have had a few cars previously that came from the factory with footwell LED lighting and IMO it looks great. Its not annoyingly bright, but just enough to add a nice touch at night. I like how the Jeeps have the door handle and storage bin LED's, but they did not have the footwell lighting. Turns out Mopar makes a footwell LED kit, but its extremely expensive, and IMO not that great of a kit. For one, it looks aftermarket! The instructions tell you to zip tie the LED strip in place, there are cables everywhere, a module box, a switch that needs to be mounted, and lastly they do not dim with the OEM dimmer switch.
My goal was to essentially do the exact same thing that except more OEM looking, functions like OEM, and costs less than five bucks This setup is not multi-colored like the Mopar kit as I did not want that. I only wanted LED to match the factory interior lights.
I purchased a few pre-wired 3mm aqua (cyan) colored LED's from superbrightleds.com which match the factory interior lighting perfectly. I wired them and tapped into the shifter gear indicator wires which were a simple black and red wire which provided 12v+ to the LED in the center console. This was a perfect place to tap into as it was very easy to get to, and was located only 2 feet from where my footwell LED's will bo located.
I mounted the LED's to the removable panels in the footwells and added push connectors incase I ever needed to remove those panels again so I can easily disconnect the LED's.
Hopefully the pictures speak for themselves, but if anyone wants a little more detail feel free to ask. All I had to actually buy for this project were a few 67 cent LED's since I had some wire laying around and other misc things. Total project cost was less than 5 bucks and a couple hours of time. At night the LED's are perfect! They match the lights exactly and add just the right amount of light to make the interior look incredible.
Enjoy the pictures!
For those that did not read the posts about the OEM Mopar footwell lighting kit I will give you a heads up on what I did and why I did it.
I have had a few cars previously that came from the factory with footwell LED lighting and IMO it looks great. Its not annoyingly bright, but just enough to add a nice touch at night. I like how the Jeeps have the door handle and storage bin LED's, but they did not have the footwell lighting. Turns out Mopar makes a footwell LED kit, but its extremely expensive, and IMO not that great of a kit. For one, it looks aftermarket! The instructions tell you to zip tie the LED strip in place, there are cables everywhere, a module box, a switch that needs to be mounted, and lastly they do not dim with the OEM dimmer switch.
My goal was to essentially do the exact same thing that except more OEM looking, functions like OEM, and costs less than five bucks This setup is not multi-colored like the Mopar kit as I did not want that. I only wanted LED to match the factory interior lights.
I purchased a few pre-wired 3mm aqua (cyan) colored LED's from superbrightleds.com which match the factory interior lighting perfectly. I wired them and tapped into the shifter gear indicator wires which were a simple black and red wire which provided 12v+ to the LED in the center console. This was a perfect place to tap into as it was very easy to get to, and was located only 2 feet from where my footwell LED's will bo located.
I mounted the LED's to the removable panels in the footwells and added push connectors incase I ever needed to remove those panels again so I can easily disconnect the LED's.
Hopefully the pictures speak for themselves, but if anyone wants a little more detail feel free to ask. All I had to actually buy for this project were a few 67 cent LED's since I had some wire laying around and other misc things. Total project cost was less than 5 bucks and a couple hours of time. At night the LED's are perfect! They match the lights exactly and add just the right amount of light to make the interior look incredible.
Enjoy the pictures!