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Originally Posted by Freeman
How did you get it to dim with the rest of the lights?
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All I did was tap into this floor lighting blub on the passenger side.
That light comes on when the door opens, and dims out when the door closes.
By running off the leads to this bulb the LED act just like the floor lights.
They work with the doors and the room switch.
The housing that has socket in it that I tapped into is under the glove box, and is held in with one screw. I unscrewed that and then removed the bulb socket. You twist the socket to unlock it from the housing.
Yours will not have red stage gels taped to it but it looks like this:
This is what the socket looks like (without the blub in it).
One side is + one is -, they are unmarked black wires so its trial and error on that one.
Wires for LED (black and red wires). I ran the rears under the carpet here up front down the center console to the rear of the car:
Rears were both mounted under the front seats, I left a small loop of wire so the seat could move back and forth:
Passenger front is stuck to that metal rail under the glove box the original housing screws into.
Drivers front:
Clipping off the original bulb socket and using butt connectors, or wire nuts, has the same effect. The lights still work with the doors and fade.
I ended up just clipping the socket off when I ran the rears and using wire nuts out of laziness.