looks good man!

 

Thanks! It looks way cooler in person

 

Here's the video guys

How To LED Car Door Handle Lights - YouTube

 

Very interesting mod. I dig it.

 

I saw this mod in your 2012 MOTY summary and had to check this thread out. This looks awesome, how did you mount the bulb, is it in a housing? I am giving this a thought or adding puddle lights to the mirror housing.

 

I used the widely available LED strips with the sticky tape on the back side. I cut a section of three LEDs off the strip, then added some 3M automotive tape to the LED section and stuck that to the inside of my door handle. There's no housing, it's just stuck way up in there with double sided tape. I then drilled a small hole in the handle to fish the wire into the door, and then routed the wire inside of the car to the dome light circuit.

I'm not sure how the 6th gen door handles are attached, but I imagine it would be the same procedure. Let me know if I can help you if you decided to try this yourself

 

I might try to do this to my car eventually, it's a pretty cool mod!

 

Justin:
Thats a very cool Mod forsure....Are you a bit concerned about any weather getting in thru the hole for the led wire?..Did you seal it off with a Gromet? or RTV silicone?

Is your Monte Painted Gold?

 

Great idea I had planned to do this at some point it's good to see someone with success on it before me

 

Thanks for the comments guys!

No concern for weather getting into the door. First off, the LED wire is very small guague, something like 22-24 gauge wire so the hole is very very small. I made the hole a tight fit for the wire.

Did you know there is currently a hole in the door for the handle now? If you get under neath your handle and look up inside while opening it, you'll see how the handle is attached to the inner door. There's a small gap there already, and my hole is even smaller that that. No reason to worry about water getting into the door

Another good thing is that the handle protects water from getting into the door and around the LEDS too. It's kind of like a roof. I should mention also that I used waterproof LEDs that come on the strip for extra weather protection.

Technically, my paint code calls for Pewter Metallic, but we can call it gold