viva60

Acquired a 98 civic CX hatch over summer and now that a little bit of $ is around wanted to have fun adding some special touches. Have an idea to mount LED lights in the car that are turned on and off by the opening and closing of the door, just like the standard dome light. Anyone have ideas how I can tap into the circuitry? I need to keep all wires out of sight.

Thanks...

ej1 pilot

not worth it in my opinion
more work than its worth probably...you could try searching on things like that
this will save you a lot of work and keep people here from yelling at you--> https://honda-tech.com/zerosearch

welcome

Pioneer162

find out where the dome light wires up to and tap in from there......... lots of ripping stuff apart and installing wires, not to mention dremeling spots for the leds etc etc....all for some door ajar leds? Hope it turns out nice....

punku10

if you open your drivers door and look in the door jamb about 3/4 of the way up there is a little black button **** thingy that you can push in and when you do the beeping and the dome light turn off. you have to take apart the inner panel behind that switch to get access to the wires.

IMO its sounds like a really lame idea though i wouldn't waste my time or my $ on useless LED lights

MassScene

I think it would be cool man just dont over do it, and do it clean.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by punku10 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if you open your drivers door and look in the door jamb about 3/4 of the way up there is a little black button **** thingy that you can push in and when you do the beeping and the dome light turn off. you have to take apart the inner panel behind that switch to get access to the wires.
</TD></TR></TABLE> You actually have to get it done some where different cause if you tap into that I dont think if you want to turn the dome light on while the door is closed they led's wont work.

punku10

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MassScene &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I think it would be cool man just dont over do it, and do it clean.

You actually have to get it done some where different cause if you tap into that I dont think if you want to turn the dome light on while the door is closed they led's wont work.</TD></TR></TABLE>

he never said anything about turning them on and off with the door closed.

94eg!

iTrader: (2)

The reason you can't do it on just the one door buton, is because it will only work when that one door is opened. What if your passenger gets out?

MassScene

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by punku10 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

he never said anything about turning them on and off with the door closed.

</TD></TR></TABLE> Well if your gonna do something you should do it right.

99CivicExCoupe

go for it, if YOU like it then ****** do it, everyones got a damn opinion, i also recommend tapping in from the domelight itself. good luck and make sure u post some pics of the process and the final result

civictildeath

gotta give you props on the idea. mind if i use it for myself??

photec3

http://bulldogsecurity.com/New...x.htm

It would probably be easiest if you just splice it into the wires at the dome light

MassScene

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 99CivicExCoupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">go for it, if YOU like it then ****** do it, everyones got a damn opinion, i also recommend tapping in from the domelight itself. good luck and make sure u post some pics of the process and the final result</TD></TR></TABLE>