Heres a couple pics of my latest mod. (interior neons)


^^^dont know why the underlights look greenish yellow. they are blue

^^^the bright light under the AC controls is the switch for the interior neons

^^^bright light in the upper left corner of the pic is the neon tube seen through the steering wheel column

 

I like it a lot! It looks really nice. Very clean looking too!

 

Thanks man, I was at auto zone one day and saw some interior neons and decided to put them in my car. they orginally came with a plug for the cigarette lighter but i wired them up to a switch. i think it looks better with the switch

 

haha

 

yah i did the same thing have the switch basically by my ebrake and looks very clean no cables newhere

 

With a switch? Where did you power yours? I soddered a ciggerett lighter adapter to my set of neons because everyone said theres no 12v tap in the interior accessible.

 

I ran a positive and negative wire from the battery to a switch and my LED's, it was easy and clean.

later

 

i did mine alot different.....took my whole center console apart and wired it through where my stick shift is on the left side of it not interfering with anything...just an on and off switch that is basically connected through the second cigarette outlet for power........

 

I powered mine from the fuse box on the passengers side of the car. i put the positive in with a fuse. (cant remember which one off the top of my head) it wors good and turns off when the car is turned off.

 

you did use a fuse right?

 

No, i just ran the wires and instead of using a switch i just connect the 2 positive wires together.














Duh.....one of the new fancy in line fuses.



later

 

haha i have 2 wires ran from my positive post for assecories and never used a fuse, no problem

 

wow!!! taking a chance that isnt needed if you ask me. If for some reason those wires ever come loose and touch, or they have a wear point and wear down to bare wire kiss your cobalt goodbye.

I learned the hard way when installing my first system in my first car. I ran two remote wires on switches for two amps straight from the battery. Used female connectors for the wires on the back of the switches. One day I was playing around trying to mount the switches from the front and one of the connectors must have come loose but there were sparks and glowing wires and luckily i was able to swat at the mess and get the wires apart

After all that I looked at the wires and they had started melting through the insulation and this was apparent all the way from the switches to the battery. Had this gone on much longer or when i wasnt in the car the insulation would have melted on the wires and my car most likely would have gone up in flames.

Same reason you have circuit breakers in your house would you want to live in one without them?

BIO, i would hate to see all that hard work you have put in your car destroyed because you dont have a 25 cent fuse for your lights.

Im sure many others agree with me on this better safe than sorry.

 

anyone else like the way it looks?

 

RICE!!!! hahaha... sorry had to, no they look really good. What size did you use?

 

they are about 9 1/2 inches long and pretty skinny. they shine pretty bright though.

 

its kinda hard to tell, its so bright.