I am wanting to do som tasteful interior LED lighting. Red under the dash as to illuminate the footwells, under the rear of the driver and passenger seats to illuminate the rear floor, inside the cup holder, inside the small compartment of the door panels, and somewhere in the engine bay, havent decided where yet. I want to control them all on a single toggle switch. I was wondering what circut I should tap into to power the lights? Or if I should create a new fuse like i have for my subwoofer bass control ****. Electric work is by far my greatest downfall, so I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

 

Get a few very high output wedge 194 LEDs and replace the 2 under your dash and your map lights. That might give you a good amount of the red that you need without doing any splicing of wires.

 

Stupid question: what are map lights? lol

 

The lights that are in your rear view mirror haha

They are (were) there to read a map in the dark without turning on the big dome light... you know... back in the day when a map was on paper

 

Wowww. I totally knew that. Huge brain fart right there. lol Although I still occaisionally use a map when I go to Pittsburgh cuz that city makes GPS utterly useless. Now, what about the lights for under the seats, cupholder etc? I know I will have to splice them in somewhere, and I would like to keep them on sometimes, thus the toggle switch.

 

I've got red LEDs in my front and rear floor compartments wired up to a simple on off switch that's near the map light that lights up the foot well. I'll get pictures when possible but I put the rear LEDs under the little bit of the rear seat that sticks out, then you pop the seat off and put the wiring under there and run it down the side panels and to the front ones. I got 4 red LED strips from auto zone and a simple switch. Turned out really nice and no wires are showing

 

One thing I did was replace the lights in the foot wells with red LEDs and all the rest with white or natural LEDs (this allows the foot wells to be red, but not the entire interior, so red is only an accent).

One problem i found was red in the foot wells with the regular bulbs, looked GREAT. Once I went LED everywhere else I had a lot of trial and error to get where I am now (so the non-red did not drown out the red). I almost removed the map lights, instead I settled on the "weakest" replacement LED map lights and I found red ones for the foot wells that did a better job at broadcasting a bright red.

Some day I want to add a red accent light around the door pulls.