Interior Accent lighting

[aveosummit]

What is everyone using? I am looking at adding blue led's on the inside and in the spider web designed headliner....what is everyone else doing? Any one rocking neon?

[aveoike]

I had neons, but swaped them out for some leds. I have the power coming from the door switch in the door jam, and mounted under the dash. So they come on when I open the door, turn off when I shut the door.

[aveosummit]

What color did you use?

[AveoSam]

i have extra red 4bulb leds and i want to try and put them in the door handle but i dont know how to....

[aveosummit]

Where do you have lighting in your vehicle sam?

[AveoSam]

i replaced all the gauge and hvac bulbs....once i get a new head unit....one with red button but blue screen itll look hot....right now my tach,speedo,gas,oil are red and my odometer is blue to set things off....the i have a blue for the cold side of the temp control and red for the other, then the rest of the hvac controls are red.....look really nice at night....i wont do neons but the farthest ill go is putting these led bulbs in my door handles

[aveoike]

I used blue leds under the dash and I also did the led light swap in the tach, speedo, hvac. Have blue in there too.

[justanotheruser]

I'm thinking of adding some interior LED accents under the dash but I'm having trouble thinking of where to cut in for power. I was thinking of just tying into the interior dome light wires, but I want to add a switch so i can turn it on and off without having to open the door.

I don't really want to cut into anything after the fuse box, won't that cause more blown fuses due to increased amp draw?

Am I just being paranoid or is there a better way?

[FrankNiceGuy]

I ran a 8ga amp power wire into my dash from the battery to connect all my 12V accessory, just be sure to turn them off or you will drain your battery or you can add a relay from the ignition switch to have it powered only when the car runs

[justanotheruser]

I was thinking of doing something like that, but how do you go from a 8ga wire to something like 12-16ga (not sure exactly) that pre-wired neons come with? I have a bunch of those tap-in connectors but I haven't seen anything to reduce the size of the wire. Any suggestions?

I don't really want to run 8ga to the switch and 12ga off the other side, it defeats the purpose of using 8ga at all.

[justanotheruser]

Bump!

Anyone have any ideas? I don't know if a 12ga will power 2 12" LED strips and 2 smaller ones, could it?

I wanna hook it all up to a master switch in case the dang cops give me a hassle. Should I run something thicker from the battery, like an 8ga Frank suggested? How would I wire in the 12ga that comes on LED strips?

[FrankNiceGuy]

I used some ring terminals with a bolt to screw them together and I use a 4gauge rubber to cover it to avoid short cuts

[subachad]

This is a bad shot since it was done in the day, but you can see the neons lightup the floor under the dash. I wired into the headlights so when I turn on the parking lights, my feet lights come on. It looks better at night obviously. I put some Varad 10" tubes on the Mazda and they have a perfect light spray I would highly recommend them over the cheap ebay crap I got.

Make sure to mount them clean so you don't even know they are there until night.

www.vincentfurniture.com/subachad/Aveo/mods/interior.htm

Chad

[computerkiller]

iam going to put neons in but iam going to run them from the cigg lighter wires and make my own kill switch and etc

[aveosummit]

Well, I do sell accent lighting, give me a holla if interested..