Just wanted to add an update to this thread and thank the OP for the guide at the start.
Finally got around to adding some wiring and powering the LED bars of my LCI lights properly yesterday. Massive thanks to Wes (hks200) who did all the work!
We followed the thread
on here and the
German thread mentioned on there too, so it was all pretty straight forward. Certainly helps to have the right equipment, as Wes did from his days mucking around with car audio installs.
So, parts I bought for the install:
- secondhand tail light socket housing with 20cm wires and OEM spade connectors (something like
this)
- 3m of 0.9mm diameter wire from Jaycar (have a fair bit left over - probably only need 1.5m. The other thread suggested 0.7mm but they didn't have any so I went larger).
- blue wire taps from
Jaycar
Process:
- Follow the German thread (do a google translate), as it covers everything
- Remove all the necessary trim
- Measure wire from passenger side, strip ends of OEM wire from housing and new wire, solder together and tape.
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- Fit new wire into socket housing. In this photo, the black wire is the new one (4th hole)
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- Route new wire behind trim and along base/edge of boot floor. Cut wire to required length.
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- The loose red wire below is the new one. You can see the blue wire tap to the number plate wire (there are 2x grey with brown stripe). Don't worry, we taped the new wire down so it's all neat and tidy.
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- With the wire tap, we had to strip a little plastic off the number plate wire and the end of the new tail light wire to get good contact
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- Repeat same procedure for driver's side, except this new wire only needs to be about 20cm long. We decided to use the second number plate light for the second tail light, to spread the load but I have read of others just using the one wire tap for both.
- Result
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Now, just need some coding done to turn off 'parkers' and leave LED bars on.