Aux interior door light wiring

I just spliced in and soldered. I took pictures but they came out blurry. I taped it all up fished the wires through and attached my lights to the side kick panels.

Hey guys, I'm new here, though I've owned my FJ for 3 years. Just wanted to thank the originator of this thread, it was extremely informative and useful. Just thought I'd mention one important note - In the install notes, He said you can hook up your negative/ground to the white wire (ribbon wire) or any other convenient ground (which would leave the lights on for like 10 minutes...). Well, I initially opted to hook it to the ground behind the left wall panel, drivers side, near the floor. It works as a ground, however, the floor lights will stay on the ENTIRE time the vehicle is operational. They will come on with the dome light when the door is open, and when using the key fob to lock the doors, they will shut off when the dome goes off. But, through my experience, the entire time I'm driving, those led lights stay on (even though the dome light is off while driving). I have yet to hook my neg/ground up to that ribbon wire...I will be doing that in the near future (it's just too damn cold in NY right now!) As I said - just informing you all of my experience.

Murder11

First off, I thank you for the information on this thread! I was finally able to install my LED door projectors with most of the info here.

I had to do it slightly different to make it work properly on mine. I accessed the ribbon through the driver's A pillar as described above. Thank god I tried that route instead because the wires in the ribbon are minuscule and the plastic insulator is quite thick and stiff in ratio to the copper wire. Here's a clear picture with the middle wire stripped and marked black :


Stripping the insulator was a bit of a pain, I started with the middle, then moved on to the right side wire in the ribbon( which itself runs up and down in the A pillar ). I managed to chop the wire by accident so I had to solder a jumper to attach the red wire:


I used a weed whacker line to fish the wire down through the A pillar and under the dash to power the door lights.

After removing the door panel, I used the trimmer line again to fish the wire from the door to the interior. I had to remove the 2 bolts on the flexible rubber boot that's attached to the door.

When removed, you will see I tiny gap between the plastic wire clip, on the top and the bottom of it. This was enough room to get the wire fished through



Now, here's where I had to change things. As it turns out, my dome lights and newly installed LEDs would come ON when I closed the door, and stay on when I opened it. It's 3am and I'm getting tired, now frustrated lol! It turns out, I had to splice back into the A pillar ribbon wires, and use the LEFT wire instead of the RIGHT wire for your RED, the MIDDLE is still used for BLACK. Now it works as it should, and was damn well worth the effort!




Again, thanks again to you guys for the information..I'm not an electrical or mechanical guru, and this projected help boost my confidence another notch with modding my FJ.

I hope this helps other 'new' FJ owners who want door activated lights..at some point, I have to figure out how to shove an RCA from the door to the inside of the FJ for L/R cameras. Being a short guy, I could use all the visibility aids I can get lol!



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