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Interior Neons
I'm looking at getting a set of blue neons to stick near under the dash to light up the pedals/my feet on both drivers and front passenger side..
Blue Neons
Where do I connect them to/power source? how can you turn them on and off? i.e. only turning them on at night? or does it not matter?
yeah i also wonna know how i can wire em up so they come on when the doors open
Ute Finatic
hey guys, ive wired up neons in 3 different cars now, all the same way for the footwells, its basically splicing into the cigarette lighter, and putting a switch on the positive wire then running that to the light and just running the negative straight from the cigarette lighter to the light. I only used i think a 12cm neon stick and it lights up the footwells well, you dont need the 30cm one unless thats going into the boot. I highly advise to put the neons to a switch incase you get pulled over by a cop.
Heres how mine look.
Originally Posted by Shooter03
Marcho"s R.I.D.E
If your car has the little hole in the glove box where, on older models and some newer ones the button for the boot release use to be. You can put the switch their and wire it to the glove box light for power as it is already fused. I used to have the blue LED neon’s from Jaycar in mine about $30.00 from Jaycar; they lit up the whole underside of the dash they looked really good and used stuff all power.
Just one more point to add. Do put any blue or red neon’s where they can be seen, either from outside the car or on the outside of the car, as the police can and will defect your car for having them.
ahh k so that means that they will be on whilst driving? guess ill have to put a switch in then. damit
thanx man
Gay Country Rapper
They don't have to on while your driving, that would only happen if they were wired to a constant power source, such as the ciggerate lighter, as listed above.They can be wired into the same wire that your interior lights run off, all you do is find the wire in your looms that runs to your exisitng interior lights, such as the roof light, and if you like either disconnect that, and re-wire it to your neons, or you can keep it, either way, you'll have to be pretty handy with a slodering iron, and know what your diong..
Woodgrain Nut
I've hooked up neons in my footwells so that they come on when the door opens. To do this you need to remove the driver's side kick panel (directly underneath the bonnet catch) and find an dual orange cable. With your neons. remove the cigarette lighter plug, strip back some wire on each end of the cables as well as some on the orange cables. Now on the neon cable side solder the wire with the white trace to the solid orange cable (an inline fuse should also be fitted to this cable). The solid neon cable goes to the orange cable with the white trace. If that is a little hard to understand, let me know and I will draw a diagram.
Last edited by seraphic06; 29-03-2009 at 05:52 PM.
^^ thats like exact what i want
yeah can i please have a diagram thats awesome
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yeah diagrams would be sweet
Woodgrain Nut
No problems. See below:
Ute Finatic
wats with all this soldering? YOU DO NOT NEED TO SOLDER TO INSTALL NEONS! All you need to do is wrap the wire around the other piece, simple as that then wrap tape over the top.
come get me
hahahaha for real? Maybe if its a temp thing.
Ute Finatic
not even for a temporary thing, if you know how to intertwine and twist properly, which cmon is cake, then you dont need to solder.
and that is why cars end up so dodgy
If your going to modify something why not do it properlly. Sure it may take a little longer but atleast you know its done right and you wont have to worry about it ****ing up or having to redo it later on
Ute Finatic
ive wired up my cars WITHOUT soldering for last few years and NEVER had a problem. The only way something will go wrong is if you do it dodgily aka dont tape it up, leave live wires open etc. ALOT of peopel just twist / intertwine and tape and dont have problems. Just because someone doesnt do it your way, doesnt make theirs dodgy.
come get me
actaully it does. twisting & taping should only be a temporary measure, it should not be a permanent one
Hey guys. i bought some neons for my car today, i just want to install them at the footwells. I have read that everyone is splicing them into there ciggy lighter.. but for some strange reason my ciggy lighter dont work, i got a circut tester and checked to see if maybe just the lighter dont work, but nope i didnt get nothing out of the wires, it all looked connected and the fuse was fine. Just wondering if there is anywere else i call splice into and connect them up.
Thanks Terry
Woodgrain Nut
You can try splicing it into the Brown (brown/white?) wire that runs out the back of the demister switch. By doing this the neons will work when your headlights are turned on.
ok, that sounds alright, ill give that a look tomorrow, Thanks
Gay Country Rapper
Norit's right mate, if soldering wasn't nessacary, then why would they do it in the first place. Would you go out and buy and new car that had it's entire electrical system twitched together and wrapped in sticky tape??? Well i certainly woudn't!!!
Gay Country Rapper
Simplest way for you to do it, if you pull your hoodlinig down (carefully, undo all the retainers properly!!) you'll find the wiring going to your roof light, you can disconnect it, and pull it out, this way you will have plenty of wire to work with and you'll be able to do it outside the car, never solder inside the car if it can be avoided. You can go to Jay Car, Dick Smith whatever, and get yourself a 1-2-3 way ect circut splitter, and basically you solder your existing wires into it, along with your new wires which will go to the neons. Whatever you do , do not TWITCH THEM AND WRAP THEM IN TAPE!!!
Goose!!!
Dodgy........
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