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Since I have a nearly two-hour car ride on my way home from work and a lot of time to think about what I want to do to my car I came up with this little idea. I decided to install small blue LEDs underneath the door latch handle and have them wired up to the old non-used heated mirror element for power. Unfortunately they're on all the time like the power window switches but since they're LED I'm not worried about it and I'm sure they will last forever. It gives just enough blue light to show you where the door handles are at night while driving and I got this inspiration for my wife Dodge Challenger R/T Shaker and on the inside of that car has all kinds of trick lighting everywhere in there! I've never seen this done before and it was a pretty simple thing to do as I like to add modern touches to a 36 year old car..
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That is a cool idea and puts a use to that otherwise useless plug...hehe. Did you use a special LED or anything? I might do this to mine, since the doors are currently all apart.
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Yeah my wife or my son would have to feel around for the latch also. My interior was grey but now a custom 2-tone style and in my opinion, those area's of the doors are quite dark and i figured it would be a nice modern touch to the car. Glad you like it DMC-81
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Nice work Christian.
My car is also a black interior and while I haven't had too much trouble with the door handles, I struggle mightily with getting the key into the ignition sometimes! I find it is impossibly dark to see what you're doing right at the ignition switch. Probably what those lighted keys were for originally!
You ever thought about some sort of small LED right in that area, or maybe a lighted ring around the ignition cylinder similar to the same way it's done around the cigar lighter?
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Hmmm, thats not a bad idea. One that could easily be done i believe. Have a lighted ignition ring with a 5 minute timer that is activated once the door is open and closed and staying on long enough to get your keys ready to place in the ignition. I might have to try that! Good idea Jonathan and i know what you mean about trying to find the ignition in the dark!
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Right on! I was thinking along the same lines of it being powered/switched with the door lights/plungers.
I will say that once the big stuff is taken car of on these cars, it is fun to tinker around and get creative a little with some of the less serious stuff
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