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courtesy light wire for footwell lights.

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hey guys,
first of all i have a vz sv6 and i am looking to hook some foot well lights to it.
I am trying to find the color and location of the courtesy light wire so that i can splice it, connect my lights to it, so they come on when doors are open and what not.
if any one can provide info would be greatly appriciated!
thanks heaps
 

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vn come with these wires? im interested to
 

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could i just wire it to the trigger that sensors when the doors open and cloose? or is there no electrical current in there?
cheers
 

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The foot well lights splice off the interior light wires. In a VN they are orange black for the + (I think) and white black for the -. That way they come on when you open the doors.

Thats from memory on doing 3 a few years ago.
 

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would they be the same for vz?
and were would i locate the wires?
cheers
 

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I sent some wire to a member on here for making door light looms in his VY - and it was the same colours - so VZ could well be the same.
 

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would they be the same for vz?
and were would i locate the wires?
cheers

The wires run up the driver's side B pillar. Just take off the top section of plastic trim and look around until you see three or four wires running up inside there, I think it's orange with a white line??? Anyway use a test light to find the correct wire. Next pull your scuff plate off from under drivers door and you'll find a huge bunch of wires there. Remove some black tape that holds them all together and find the same wire that you found in the B pillar and tested. Simply splice into this wire and run an earth to some part of the body and that's it. Well that is how I did the VY.
 

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thanks for that,
so can i just look in the panel near the throttle for the orange wire? because im not to keen on searching for wires around my side airbags..haha
 

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I suppose you could... yeh side airbags could pose a problem! I think the wire is orange with a white stripe, so take off the scuff plate and drivers side kick panel (next to accelerator pedal) and probe it with a test light, then push in the switch for the interior light where your door closes with your finger to make sure the test light goes out when the interior light goes out.
 

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On second thoughts, you'd better be real careful playing with wires there, too, as your side air bag wires will probably run along there.
 
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