Interior ambient light + permanent N-light in seats

[lordll]

Are you able to point to me which connection you drew power from in the doors?

I don't recall exactly. If you start with the rear doors, you will see that in the button there are some cables, one of them should be the light one (if I remember correctly is the blue one). If you have a tester, just test the voltage in all cables when the lights are turned on vs off.

 

[RhodesMK91]

I don't recall exactly. If you start with the rear doors, you will see that in the button there are some cables, one of them should be the light one (if I remember correctly is the blue one). If you have a tester, just test the voltage in all cables when the lights are turned on vs off.

Where did you ground to in the doors? I've tried most bolts I can access behind the door card and the best i've gotten is an intermittent connection but nothing solid, even tried scouring off the thread lock on one of them to see if that would make any difference, but no.

 

[lordll]

Where did you ground to in the doors? I've tried most bolts I can access behind the door card and the best i've gotten is an intermittent connection but nothing solid, even tried scouring off the thread lock on one of them to see if that would make any difference, but no.

Hi! One of the cables that go to the button is ground, you can use that.

 

[RhodesMK91]

Hi! One of the cables that go to the button is ground, you can use that.

I did think that was the case! I noticed there's a small connector at the bottom (only black cables to and from it) that's not actually 'connected' to anything, I assume this just routes the ground of all applications to the same grounding point somewhere on the chassis.

 

[lordll]

I did think that was the case! I noticed there's a small connector at the bottom (only black cables to and from it) that's not actually 'connected' to anything, I assume this just routes the ground of all applications to the same grounding point somewhere on the chassis.

Oh ok, that is interesting... Do you have a picture?

 

[RhodesMK91]

When I've got my door card off to sort the grounds, ill take a picture and send it here.

 

[peroo]

Hi man, im just installing an amb

I also bought a kit from aliexpress, installed in 1-2 hours approx (one door panel was crazy stuck, was resisting for half an hour). If you have someone to help you with it, it's super easy as one person will bend the door panel to make gap bigger, another person will just slide it in. Literally 10 seconds job, only disassembly and assembly takes some time. I have used a window opener button backlight as a power source as I want it to turn on only when headlight are on (in the dark) as during the day it's not visible anyway.

ient light kit on my i30n, i figured out all the doors except the front passenger door, can you tell me where did you connect it?

 

[peroo]

I can already tell you there is no wiring like the back doors in the front passenger door. Reason is because the 12v that go to the button light of the back doors, in the front ones go to the canbus. This means there is no exclusive cable for the light in the front passenger door. What I did on the driver door is connect it to the lights that manage the movement of the mirror, there is one cable that is used exclusively for the button light. I will try to find the diagrams.

Hey man, installing an ambient light kit, i did all the doors except the front passenger door, can you maybe tell me how you wired it up?

 

[IvanV]

Hi man, im just installing an amb

ient light kit on my i30n, i figured out all the doors except the front passenger door, can you tell me where did you connect it?

I wired front door to permanent 12V as it gets controlled by controller anyway, so even if there is permanent 12V, it will get turned off when cars headlights are off as main controller is connected to a button backlight in the dashboard. There is slight delay between front door and rest of the lights, while turning lights off, but it doesn't bother me.

 

[peroo]

I wired front door to permanent 12V as it gets controlled by controller anyway, so even if there is permanent 12V, it will get turned off when cars headlights are off as main controller is connected to a button backlight in the dashboard. There is slight delay between front door and rest of the lights, while turning lights off, but it doesn't bother me.

Hmm, mine is a little different, the main controller goes to the fuse box, so if i connect the passenger door to 12v in the doors, black/pink wire it turns on when i turn on the ignition, but the other three doors turn on when i turn on my headlights, any solution to that, or do i have to pull the backlight button wire from the backdoors to the front passenger door?

 

[lordll]

Hmm, mine is a little different, the main controller goes to the fuse box, so if i connect the passenger door to 12v in the doors, black/pink wire it turns on when i turn on the ignition, but the other three doors turn on when i turn on my headlights, any solution to that, or do i have to pull the backlight button wire from the backdoors to the front passenger door?

Hey man, sorry I missed the message. If you have a pre-facelift, the front passenger door will go differently compared to other doors, no solution there. In my case all led strips are connected when I turn on the lights. When I turn the off, the passenger door remains on for 2 extra seconds.

 

[peroo]

Hey man, sorry I missed the message. If you have a pre-facelift, the front passenger door will go differently compared to other doors, no solution there. In my case all led strips are connected when I turn on the lights. When I turn the off, the passenger door remains on for 2 extra seconds.

Yes i figured out there is no solution in the passenger door, what i did was pull a wire from the back right doors through all the plastics and in the front passenger door, now everything works great, but it was a pretty long job

 

[NethanRose]

The kit is quite "easy" to install, as you don't need to conect all the led strips together. Each of the strips have a Bluetooth box so they are connected together.

However, you still need to disassemble the doors, pass the cables through (you can make a small whole in the panel), and get the power through any source available, in my case, I got it from the light of the button for the windows.

Hi there I’m doing this exact job but don’t know where to put the hole on each door panel so it still looks good. Any help would be appreciated

 

[IvanV]

I did not put any hole, just squeezed it between door and door panel. You will see it because you know about it, but other people will not notice, until you mention it.

 

[lordll]

Hi there I’m doing this exact job but don’t know where to put the hole on each door panel so it still looks good. Any help would be appreciated

Hi! I drilled the whole in the line that is hidden with the middle pillar once you close the door. I suggest you cover the bit of the driller with something soft like heat-shrink material for cables, this way you will not damage the panel.

Clipping the cable between the door and the panel can cut the cables with the vibration, so I suggest you invest a bit of time and do the small hole, the panels can be separated so it is easier to do it, 2 people would be ideal.

If you have any other question let me know!

 

[IvanV]

Hey all. Just to give you heads up. If you connect those strips directly to front door panel (you will have that issue, that they stay on a few seconds after everything goes dark), they will drain your battery. I left my car in a garage for a month and battery was so drained, I could even connect tester to it. I'm currently planing to pull a new cable to front door only for this as it can drain battery in approx 2-3 weeks.

 

[Petr36]

Hi, I also ordered the lights from the link above. They arrived today. So I went to try them out right away. So far I only have the dashboard and wired up wildly (for testing). I'm looking forward to putting them on the door. And then I'll try them on the feet.