More interior mods!

[Apache]

Bought a bag of 100 daylight white LEDs for a fiver from eBay.

Take one mirror console, remove old filament light holders.



Make up a wee stripboard full of LEDs wire series parallel in order to accept 12V.



Connect and fit little board in place of lamp holder, using your favorite glue! (Mine's hot melt glue )



Re-fit in car, and marvel at how your truck is now probably visible from space

[si tate]

Andy that looks great & great for me when im shooting/reloading the gun.

[surfenstein]

Nice mod andy.

[si tate]

Hummm, on closer inspection you seem to have a slightly different light to me but i don't think it would matter much.

[Apache]

I've taken out the centre and rear roof lights ready for the same mod. The rear one being very bright would be really handy.

[97T4R]

I have some good interior mods for you guys:

I wrote some writeups on how to do any of this stuff if you guys are interested.

99+ Center Console



97 vs. 99



99+ Roof Console with Sunglasses holder



Hardwired inverter



Cargo box, Built but not completed (sits over the wheel well, gonna be carpeted)

[JUDWAK]

they are good dude
but
if i had lights like that in my surf the guy next door would phone the law saying iam growing drugs or something

[POPEYE]

Good mod andy, can i ask where you got your led's and what mcd they are? i did mine a while ago but used blue's and red's, not a lot of good for map reading or seeing owt for that matter, i might copy you here!!
post some pics of the other interior lights when you do em, i'm ripping out everything at the mo and could do with some ideas.

[Apache]

Ian, they are 10,000mcd, 3.4V - 3.7V (20mA - 30mA), so four in series is safe enough for the range of voltages they'll see. I got them from eBay as I say, but can't get on there at the mo to give you the seller. I'll post it up later when eBay comes back!

[IanB2]

I have some good interior mods for you guys:

I wrote some writeups on how to do any of this stuff if you guys are interested.

99+ Center Console

97 vs. 99

The cupholders would be real nice, but I need somewhere for the switches in the center console, and don't see any blanks for them on the new console. I've got switches for electronic suspension, rear mirror, and tranny shift programing that need to go somewhere. What's the area to the left of the ebrake handle for?

[POPEYE]

Ian, they are 10,000mcd, 3.4V - 3.7V (20mA - 30mA), so four in series is safe enough for the range of voltages they'll see. I got them from eBay as I say, but can't get on there at the mo to give you the seller. I'll post it up later when eBay comes back!

cheer's mate, just wanted to check em against "Goodwill sales" range, (also on ebay), just looked at some 3mm white's i have and these are 6000 mcd

[tintin]

Andy, i did the centre light on mine with a replacement from halfraauds.
So pleased with the result(as i put my tools in the back) i just bought another pack to do the rear one. Just clips in instead of the bulb!!!
Will post some pics asap


Alan

[97T4R]

The cupholders would be real nice, but I need somewhere for the switches in the center console, and don't see any blanks for them on the new console. I've got switches for electronic suspension, rear mirror, and tranny shift programing that need to go somewhere. What's the area to the left of the ebrake handle for?

I moved all the buttons next to the steering wheel as they have 5 blank spots. The spot next to the E-brake is a cubby for more storage, and the armrest also has a secret compartment.

I now have 6 cupholders

[Albannach]

Nice mod, I think I might do something similar. If I can my get series/parallel wiring head on!

|+LED-+LED-+LED-+LED-|
|+LED-+LED-+LED-+LED-|
|+LED-+LED-+LED-+LED-|
|+LED-+LED-+LED-+LED-|
| .............................. |
+ .............................. -

Ignore the dots, the site doesn't allow blanks.

Is that right?

[Apache]

Yeah, thats right. Make sure you get the ones with the correct forward voltage though. There are still some 1.5V-2V LEDS out there!

I just did the centre roof light which was mechanically a bit more involved as you have to dremel out a fair bit of the structure inside, and then change the pick up points for power.

Well worth doing though! MUCH brighter! Managed to shoehorn 28 LEDs in there.

Going to do the tailgate one tomorrow. Thats quite a big lens, and a lot of light there is very handy!

Tintin, yes I know there's replacement bulbs out there, but that wouldn't be any fun / allow me to mess about in the workshop for a few hours.