Door handle lights?, Oh yes I went there Options

[schmooot]

Hell yeah! it was a very productive saturday.

These are preassembled 12V LED's from oznium.com (essentially just standard 5mm LED's with the resistor already soldered on and heatshrunk) White of course as I am in the process of changing all my interior lights to white. ALready got the climate control led's changed...they were hella bright though (like blinding) so I put a big blob of white paint on the end of all the diodes and it toned them down quite a bit...looks ballin...anyways that's another thread entirely.

Right then....on with the show, I literally had 8 different projects on the go today involving multiple vehicles, my air compressor, light fixtures....and a weed whacker (couldn't get the bloody engine to run properly though so I set it aside for another day)


First some careful pondering and planning:


Then a couple precision drilled holes:


The idea is the LED is attached to the frame/handle assembly itself. As the bezel needs to come on and off it just has a small hole which the head sticks out of when installed:



Nice little glob of silicone and a ty-wrap to hold everything in place:



And here we are wired in to the door lights:



And finally assembled:



sweet, I'm diggin it.

You'll probably be seeing a few more of these from me as I can't actually legally drive the car yet...she just sits in the garage, patiently waiting, while I wash and polish and modify and tweak .....just waiting for some paper pusher to get off his ass and do some actual work for a change

[mgnt232]

wow looks nice! Are they available in any different colors? (red or blue)
thanks, want to do this

[schmooot]

wow looks nice! Are they available in any different colors? (red or blue)
thanks, want to do this

just buy red or blue leds and then play copy cat..... of course they won't be as pimp as the originals! ShazzaaM!