Yes thats what you would have to do, but I would try and find out where that wire runs to so you dont have to take the headliner off. See if anyone knows which side the dome light wire goes down. You might be able to pop off the dome light cover and see what color and which direction the wires go. Then tap into them in an area thats easier to access.

 

Obviously there is a wire running from the doors to the dome light circuit, or the light wouldn't come on when you opened the doors. If I wired all the lights and had them running on their own power, shouldn't I be able to find that connection from the door and splice in to it to turn them on and off? That would avoid splicing in at the dome light itself.

That is probably a convulated way to say the same thing DMAN said..

 

Not installed yet but they do fit!

 

Hey surfcitylocal, do you mind going over how to splice power for me? I need to splice power for my handle bars now... I cant seem to figure out how to use my damn mini add a circuit.

 

Those light up handles would be a great mod for any XB.. go ahed and install those *****! Because if they look nice, i'll be doing this too!

BTW, great write up, this is the way all tech articles should be!

 

I'll be doing my install later today. I'll try and get some pics posted tonight.

As for wiring the power. You can run a wire from the pos battery terminal with an in line fuse through the firewall and then wire that to the pos side of the switch. Use anyone of the factory provided ground locations (there's one under the driver side kick panel) to run your ground lead for the switch. From there run your leads to the converters. I know it sucks without pics. I'm doing an installation on one of the Scinergy members OSH's today. I'll get some pics of the switch install to help.

 

ffr

 

OK, with all the shows and stuff I haven't installed the handles yet. This will be put to the back of my list since I'm doing the wing, A piller gauges, mirror covers and a few other things before the SE show in San Diego. The handles will fit but in my opinion they will not look as good as the stock handles with the cold cathodes added. I'll update when I can.

 

i went with the led method just in case you need to use the handles. sorry for the old pics, only ones i have on hand right now. click thumbs for bigger pics

 

Want to get a nice even glow w/ the LED's so that you can still use the handle? Heres my write up. Check it out :D
http://forums.scionzone.com/smf/index.php?topic=2070.0

 

Just read your write up, very nice directions and the end result is sweet! I'm looking forward to seeing them in your Box.

 

great write up dman!
im so doin this this weekend!!!

 

That looks good. I saw a write up earlier for an LED version too.

 

Thanks Guys,
Here they are installed




Matching UB kit set on blue (my inferno kit has a million colors!)

 

They're done!

Off


On!


Off again...


On again!


Tapped 3amp fuse in one of the open spots and grounded on that little screw to the side


And I worked late into the night as you can see by my worklights setup...


Switch-a-roonie


The switch I got at Radio Shack... the fuses and piggybacks I got at Pep Boys and all the wire I got from a local audio shop.

I’ve got to say, doing this on my own was awesome and to all those who want to do this but feel they should take it somewhere, don't! It took me a whole day to wire it because I didn't know what I was doing, but now I'm sure I could get it all done in one day, maybe a little less.

Thanks surfcitylocal for the great write up and I'll be sure to show them to you at the next So Cal meet!

The Night Pictures!









The pictures don't really do it justice, which I'm sure you're all aware. They do illuminate quite nicely when you're inside... although my switch does tend to hit me square in the right eye

 

oo, i gottta do this, asap!

 

did mine weekend before last. i actually recessed them into the handle which took a bit more work than i anticipated. my daughter is fascinated with them(she's 20months old)

not sure if i can get anymore or not but i have a 4 or 5 fuse self contained add on that using 8ga lead right to the oe battery terminal and using the cruise control harness split loom went through the fire-wall with the pig tail and using the gardner bender(or whatever) swithes from lowes in the stock switch panel made for a clean install on the power side and of course used the same routing as the oe poster for the remaining wiring.

a side note not sure if anyone mentioned it before but when i lenghtened the cathods harnesses i made sure to solder every connection and noted no descernable decrease in light output

 

Can anyone tell me how to wire Led's i've installed in my Oh S#&* handles to the dome light circuit?

 

For the guy who installed the little led's into his handles, that's some of the sickest work I've seen. I could never do that! You should be selling a kit or something.

 

I just ordered a set of the clear handles that have the led's inside them from www.jab-tech.com The cost for 2 pairs and regular ground shipping from OK to CA was $22.84. They cost a couple bucks more there than on www.coolerguys.com but I only saw blue available on that site. Blue, green, and red are available on jab-tech. Can't wait for them to get here!