Hi all, 

 

Does anybody know if it’s possible to retrofit the LED door panels on the facelift mk3 to the pre-facelift?

 

I guess there are 3 areas that need to be considered:

 

1) Physical fittment of the door trim that contains the LED light bar

2) The connection for the power and control of these LEDs (guessing its powered and driven by the head unit?)

3) The headunit itself as this controls the colour etc of the LEDs - I guess you’d need to fit a newer head unit?

 

thanks

Matt

I’m throwing a 4th consideration in. Cost. 

2 hours ago, SC03OTT said:

I’m throwing a 4th consideration in. Cost. 

This is very true, only worth it if its a cheap modification as its more a gimmic and a nice to have than anything!

no way this will be cheap. I know how I would do it, but the integration is teh hard part. It's been looked at before and, personally, because I'd be surprised if you could get away without new doorcards, i'd put the cost at well north of £1k

 

 - Bret

I guess it can be done if you hack it...

- Get the new door panel

- Get some 3rd party LED strip

- Wire it to come on when the engine is on

- ...profit!

 

Having it on the Cupra, I have to admit it adds to the "WOW" factor, but honestly I wouldn't make such a big effort to get it.

7 hours ago, Jaco2k said:

I guess it can be done if you hack it...

- Get the new door panel

- Get some 3rd party LED strip

- Wire it to come on when the engine is on

- ...profit!

 

Having it on the Cupra, I have to admit it adds to the "WOW" factor, but honestly I wouldn't make such a big effort to get it.

I think judging by the cost of it I will be better off spending my money elsewhere as there is lots I want to do to the car

 

I found some some fibre optic strips on eBay that you cut to length and you wire into any 12v source on the car, but I want it to look OEM and not some home made bodge so maybe I’ll play around with it later in the year and see how it looks!

it's not that hard to plug in some WS2812Bs and a controller and then use a small opening at the bottom of the door decor strip, but you'd need to do an awful lot. The strips are generally EL wire and not programmable; WS2812Bs really are programmable, and a controller - ESP8266 - is not expensive.

 

 - Bret