My friend and I were installing LED's in my footwell, but we cannot get to the back of the ciggarette lighter to draw power. Does anyone know if our center consoles come apart, or what needs to be done to get power? We have a switch, we just need to know where to draw power from and how.
Please help me ASAP, as this project needs to be finished this week!!!


Thank you.

 

Is this the Scion Accessory one or some after market thing. I installed the Scion ones before in a xA. It tells you to tap the cig lighter wires for power. Basically you take apart the whole center console, all the pieces of it unscrew like a cd player or something would and you just pull all the pieces out of it.

 

how does the console come apart? thanks

 

take off the two side moldings from the bottom up, just pull with your fingers a little bit at a time. Then all you have to do is unscrew the module you need to get to.

 

thanks a lot guys
last thing... have any of you actually done this (taken apart the console this way)? i want to make sure that its not going to cause any damage before i do it, but from what you guys said its not too bad. thanks a lot! :D
ill post pics when its all done-

 

It would be much simpler to tap into any swithced 12v wire. . . or you could simply ghetto mod it and push a wire into the acc fuse, in the fuse box.

 

LOL...done that a few times.

 

what do you mean

 

There is a wire color code chart available on this site somewhere. . . buy a T-Tap crimp connector and a spade connector. Crimp the T-tap onto any constant 12v wire or switched 12v(ignition, if you want it to turn off with the key). Crimp the spade connector onto the 12v lead on your LED set, plug the spade into the T-tap and you are done. With crimps, you won't have to cut the wire.

There should also be constant 12v and switched leads by the fuse block. . . but if you are new to this kinda thing, it is much easier (and it works fine) to pull out the ACC fuse, take the wire that needs 12v and and push it into the hole were the fuse was (not too much wire), and then push the fuse in over the wire. Easy as pie. Ghetto, but it works.

I prefer Crimps for a less ghetto, cleaner install. . . but the ghetto method works fine.

 

finished the project already, thanks anyways though