Originally Posted by Elauder

Looks sweet. Probly doing something like this soon.

Originally Posted by Hammbones

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Originally Posted by MikeyMo84

so i was in a VW Phaeton (that big ol $70,000 vee dub lux car) last week and i noticed that the inside door handles had this really cool red backlighting...well i had the brilliant idea of doing that to my own car lol...

went on autolumination.com and picked up a couple of single LED's that had small plastic pieces that would let me drill a hole and pop them in behind the door handle...they also came with 18" wire leads to wire up to power...for power i tapped into the door lock switch b/c it only lights up when the headlights are on...(fyi - thin grey wire is light power and thicker black is ground) heres pics of the (almost) finished result



pass side with flash


drivers side with flash


pass side no flash


drivers side no flash


pass side with LED map lights, under dash LED's and door handles


drivers side same thing


overall view of all the various lighting including 6000k HID's
(my yard is a mess from the construction going on @ my house)


after testing it out tonight i noticed that there was a little glare spilling out from the door handle recess both from under the actual handle it self and up on the roof...plus the light is a little too focused for my taste...im going to take a little bit of black paint and just block out the front part of the LED housing which will eliminate the glare and help disperse the light output a little more so its not so focused...

comments??