Basically I want to wire some footwell lights so they come on if I open my door etc. But that also come on if I switch my interior lights on? Is this possible and where's the easiest place to get a feed?

Over the back of the glove box, up the inside of the side of the dash. Up the a pillar, across to the back of the interior light. Gives you 2 options. Hook up to the main light or into each mar light respectivly. I went onto the main light with mine so the passenger map light could still be used while driving. With a map light as well as footwell light I suspect it could make things difficult at night.

Over the back of the glove box, up the inside of the side of the dash. Up the a pillar, across to the back of the interior light. Gives you 2 options. Hook up to the main light or into each mar light respectivly. I went onto the main light with mine so the passenger map light could still be used while driving. With a map light as well as footwell light I suspect it could make things difficult at night.

What's the connections like on the interior light? Are thy easy to crimp on to?

You can get to the interior light feed (the one that turns the lights on when the key is removed from the ignition and the door opened etc at the BCU under the steering wheel. This would give no means to switch it on and off at will like the map and interior lights though. If you want I can go find the exact connector as I need it/have noted it down somewhere for when I come to fit my alarm. If the interior lights are LED's and the footwell lights LED's then you need not worry about over-loading the fuse or anything.

You can get to the interior light feed (the one that turns the lights on when the key is removed from the ignition and the door opened etc at the BCU under the steering wheel. This would give no means to switch it on and off at will like the map and interior lights though. If you want I can go find the exact connector as I need it/have noted it down somewhere for when I come to fit my alarm. If the interior lights are LED's and the footwell lights LED's then you need not worry about over-loading the fuse or anything.

Yeh that would be sweet dude

i did mine to the overhead interior light, but have wired them up to a button on the dash so all the door lights footwell and interior can be turned on and off at will, as even if you wire the lights into the cortesy light it will not come on when manually turned on above, but only when unlocked etc

The interior light switched power feed is on the brown connector block labelled XP2 on the BCU (the unit with many wires and plugs into it under the steering wheel), and is the red/black wire on pin number 6 of 6 (T6j/6).

Also just thought it may even be easier to tap the wires to the door lights if your car has them fitted, just behind the kick panels. They should also be a red/black wire and be the third pin of six on each brown connector, and if struggling to find a ground apparently the door lights use the brown/yellow wire on the 4th pin of the 6 pin connector. The connectors I refer to are the behind the kick panel where the wires go through into the doors, they're easier to get to and see passenger side and you can easily unplug them.

As mentioned above these will only come on when the key is removed, doors opened etc and turn off when ignition turned on.

Edited 29 January, 201115 yr by anewman

I wired mine up the A-piller, over the front of the windscreen roof liner, then into the central overhead light, and joined it to the courtesy lights.

Comes on with them

I'm a slag, No crimps or solder on my installation...

The metal tracks that make up the interior light circuitry on the back of the light unit have tiny holes in them.. I worked out which two tracks powered the main bulb and pushed as thick a bunch of the strands from the cable feeding the foot well lights through the hole as possible, and then twisted it all back round on it's self.

Hasn't burnt down yet... most likely will now

Edited 31 January, 201115 yr by Rob.

Hasn't burnt down yet... most likely will now

Worst things it'll do are lose conductivity so your lights dim/stop working (but I doubt it will) - or pop the fuse (which is designed to stop wires burning etc).

Any photos of it being wired into the back of the overhead lamp? What sort of bulbs did you guys opt for? LED strips?

i also have footwell lights ready to wire up but am wanting them to come on with the side lights i take it that the easiest way to do this would be connecting to the lights switch to the right on the steering wheel?

i also have footwell lights ready to wire up but am wanting them to come on with the side lights i take it that the easiest way to do this would be connecting to the lights switch to the right on the steering wheel?

But then theyd come on manually only...isnt it cooler to have them come on when car is unlocked or door opened by wiring up somewhere on the roof lamp circuitry...

But then theyd come on manually only...isnt it cooler to have them come on when car is unlocked or door opened by wiring up somewhere on the roof lamp circuitry...

Thats how my mondeo ones work.

Cant understand why you would want the footwell lights on while driving in the dark?