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Wasss up peoples...i have an 02 coupe ex....i currently have 2 12" NEONS under both front seats wired up to a switch and ****.. What i would like to do now is wire them in a way that they only light up when i open the doors....its like when you open the door and the dome light comes on.....does anyone know what wire i would have to tap into??? and exactly how would i have to wire it...im pretty good at wiring so just let it out...thanx guys

 
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if you were good at wiring then you wouldnt be asking this. run a wire from the dome light to the neons or from the fuse of the dome light.

btw neons = RICER lol

 
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Since when are neons under you seat ricey?? Besides i can do whatever the hell i want with my car...i have a dam k swap..it's not like im trying to be fast..im already fast.

 
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ya who cares? i have red lights under the seat but theyre leds. for dome light it was a real pain and what i ended up doing is tapping the wires right at the actual dome light. i tried all the wires in the driver side pillar and couldnt find the right one. when you remove the dome light assembly you will see the wires underneath. the hard part is running new wire from there down to the neons.

 
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yea..basically the only way i see it..is running the wires from the dome lights through the headliner and down through that plastic piece near the visors that comes off..thats gonna be a pain though..anyway thnx GearBox

 
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Anyway you can actually hook the LED's or Neons up to the door nipple?

 
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Use a relay.. tap the dome light to activate the lights.. if you need more power, then tap off the dome light. I've been meaning to do this... I have the lights too, but just couldnt find a decent mounting location under the front dash where you couldnt see them.

 
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door trigger is setup differently. theres only one wire to the nipple and the actual piece is grounded to the car body. and i think the polarity is reversed. i think it stays on when the door is closed or something and turns on when open.

 
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Okay because i was wondering if you could just hook them up to the door nipple because if you haven't read my other posts, my dome lights don't turn on when i open the doors, which i guess is because I don't have the stock head unit.

 
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Your headunit shouldnt have anything to do with if your dome light comes on or not... did someone hook up your headunit that had absolutely no idea what they were doing or something? Is the bulb burnt out.. use an voltage meter to check if there is any current going to the dome light wire when door is opened/closed.

On topic... yet slightly off... can you guys post pics of exactly where and how you mounted your lights (if under the dash for the footwells of the front seats) ...maybe I need to ditch my neons and get a flexable strip of leds?

 
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According to all the posts on this form, that's why my dome lights don't turn on when i open the door. I guess because the stock headunit controlled keyless entry and enabled dome lights to turn on when door opens.

 
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He has a 6th generation.

 
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im gonna try tapping into the dome light tommorow morning and i'll let u guys know how it went.

 
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id like to see a pic of this k20 in your car.

 
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Oh... Didnt know ya had keyless entry.. I dont, so... yeah. I'm done here. Goodluck.

 
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Haha actually i don't have keyless entry. It's just the dome lights don't turn on when i open either door because i don't have the stock head unit- told from multiple people on here that's why....
I just need to figure out something