After reading this post http://www.briskoda....69-puddle-leds/

and seeing the following comments

I have the same fitted from when I switched doorcards with Karl (Korban).

I'd strongly recommend the strip ones over the replacements, as they face downwards therefore more effective.

Yeah, they're brilliant!

I wish Korban lived closer to me though - I'd really like to be able to install some footwell lights, DRLs and coming home lights to mine but whilst I'm not stupid, I'm not THAT technical!

Yip Karl (Korban) is an electrical wizard I'm running his coming home light and brake light kit.
I bought strip LEDs and wired in puddle lights from red light door markers and footwell led strips wired into interior light
Looks good although I say so myself
Regards Whoosh

Any chance you can put some pics up?

Realy liked the comments and it reminded me that I now do not have any puddle lights as I had swapped my door cards with Tim

Having already got all the parts required and it being a fairly dry day today I thought I'd make up another set, and to help other members I took some quick pictures to show how easy it is to do !

Here goes

First of all you will need some LED tape light strips, these can be purchased cheaply from ebay or various other on-line sources but I buy mine from a company called ultraleds. Not the cheapest, but I find I don't have any problems with any of the LEDs that I have purchased from them.

You need to cut the LED strip to the size that you need, the LEDs are in groups of three, and I would say that two lots of three on each door is enough

You need to put a spot of solder on each of the contacts on either end of the strip

An example of one side done (note the + and - markings as I will be referring to them later)


You then need to cut some lengths of thin two core wire and tin the ends like this



Ending up with lengths of pre tinned wire ready to solder to the LED strips like this


The wire soldered to the LED strip


Continue soldering the wire/strips together making sure that all the + are connected together and all the - are also connected together as I said 2 should be enough


As I had some more LED strip I decided to do 3 instead of 2


And I remembered I had some Red LED strip left over, so I added a set of Red LEDs to it. I then added a short length of wire with a connector so that I could remove the door card at a later date.

Finished cable being tested before installation. (Quick tip as we all know the doors are notorious for leaking water so to be on the safe side I sprayed the LEDs with clear lacquer to waterproof them)


To mount the LEDS to the door cards all I did was drill some 7mm holes in the plastic of the door cards like so


I tried to make them equidistant along the bottom edge of the door card


I then covered the holes up on the outside of the door card with some tape


From the inside you can now see the tape blocking the holes


With a hot melt glue gun I then put some hot melt into each hole (If you havn't got a hot glue gun then clear silicone should do it, but it will take hours to dry)


Then quickly pushed the LEDs on the strip into the holes


After doing that to all of the strips I also hot melted the loose cable to the door cards


After removing the tape the hole look like this


And powered up to test


Fitted the connector to the existing door light wiring ensuring that the positive and negative are the correct way round


After refitting the door card you should end up with something like this


Better view at night


And different angle showing the amount of light it gives


The END

I hope this will help some members in the future

Cheers

Karl

 

Almost forgot

Also had some left over carpet form a sub project so while I had the door cards off I also did this

I hope it will stop some of the items that I put in my door pocket from sliding back and fore

Plus I think it looks quite good

Karl

Nice LEDs.

So when can i bring mine round for you to do?!?

Wow! That's very in depth! I was just going to get a strip of LEDs and tape them to the bottom of the door card.

What other lighting modifications have you done to your fabia?

Nice job.

Wow! That's very in depth! I was just going to get a strip of LEDs and tape them to the bottom of the door card.

What other lighting modifications have you done to your fabia?

You should be asking what lighting modifications has he NOT done! Lol. Just about everything has been changed.

This should be stickied!

Brilliant guide, how much do you reckon for the parts needed? I.e the led strips? Ive got a glue gun and solder etc!

Brilliant!

I do believe that the apprentice has nodded off!

You should be asking what lighting modifications has he NOT done! Lol. Just about everything has been changed.

Haha sounds like my kind of thing! I wired in some LEDs for footwell lights yesterday! I've caught the bug able easy been thinking of uses! Going to put some into the boot next and also puddle lights!

I love all the little mods you do dude, really wanna drop my car off and leave it with you for a week ha!

Nice work Karl,

I wonder if there's anything I can add to my new car?

Hmmmm.....

Excellent write up Karl

Thanks for the comments guys

I thought a detailed write up might be helpful to some of you

As a by product they also act as foot well lights

At least until you open the door !

What other lighting modifications have you done to your fabia?

As kiddy1 pointed out its easier to list what I haven't done. I love LEDs there are now over 300 individual LEDs on the car, but a slightly out dated listing can be found here

http://www.briskoda....-current-mods/

Brilliant guide, how much do you reckon for the parts needed? I.e the led strips? Ive got a glue gun and solder etc!

The LED strips can be bought on Ebay for about a tenner, but the ones that I used cost £20 off www.ultraleds.co.uk but that gets you a full metre length.

I do believe that the apprentice has nodded off!

Thank god, the bugger was pulling the wires earlier when I was trying to solder them LOL

I wonder if there's anything I can add to my new car?

I think the S3 would most probably have all the gadgets that you need Garry, hope to see it in the future

Thanks for the comment Charlie, cheers mate

Started to think about my next new project but its gonna take a while

Watch this space LOL

Karl

I think the S3 would most probably have all the gadgets that you need Garry, hope to see it in the future

You'll be sharing the track with it if you're doing Combe in April

And if Jason will let me on...

and you of all people should know there's never enough gadgets.

I want a reverse camera and more lights in mine but trying to keep it OE.

I wish you lived down the road from me Karl!

Brilliant guide!

Joe

Feel the urge to do something similar when upgrading speakers and sealing leaky door. No lights in my door as standard but I'd be putting speaker wire through anyway. Could never figure out the right wire at the BCU to wire up to. Suspect all the BCU does is provide a switched earth.

You'll be sharing the track with it if you're doing Combe in April

And if Jason will let me on...

Yeah I should be there in April see you on track !

Its VAG so i think you'll be OK LOL

I wish you lived down the road from me Karl!

I am down the road from you Joe, just 120 miles away lol

Feel the urge to do something similar when upgrading speakers and sealing leaky door. No lights in my door as standard but I'd be putting speaker wire through anyway. Could never figure out the right wire at the BCU to wire up to. Suspect all the BCU does is provide a switched earth.

If you can't find the correct wires just use the ones from the interior light

Brown/Yellow is the Earth

Red/Black is the Positive

Karl

I can't seem to get your current lighting mods to work mate.

Could you possibly PM me the services you offer such as the home coming lights or 5 light brake kit

No problem mate will try and help, its a fairly basic mod so there is not much to go wrong.

You have PM

The only kit I do is the coming home lights - basically a number of members fall a bit sort on the soldering front lol , so I decided to help out !

5 light brake is not a kit as such it is an easy mod just using a couple of diodes ( will do a write up in the future )

Karl

Thanks for the write up. A nice job well explained. Much appreciated.

Where abouts are you located Karl?

Thanks for the write up. A nice job well explained. Much appreciated.

Cheers mate

Where abouts are you located Karl?

South Wales buddy

South Wales buddy

Ah that sucks. Fancied a few bits doing and was going to see if I could hire you and your services.

Ah that sucks. Fancied a few bits doing and was going to see if I could hire you and your services.

Man up Matt! Lol.

Get the soldering iron out and get on eBay!