Ambient/Footwell Lighting Retrofit - Success!! & Next Steps

Hi all,

This is sort of a combined question/success story post.

I have just finished retrofitting the footwell lights to my pre-facelift MK3 Octavia VRS. Everything worked first time and the install was super straight forward. The coding was easy using OBDeleven, and I can control the brightness of the lights with a shiny new "Footwell lighting" option in my MIB unit! :) The lights come on full brightness when I open a door/remove the key, then gently fade down to their set brightness when the car starts (if the headlights are on). Definitely a worthwhile upgrade, it makes the car feel alot more premium, and only took me about 45 minutes to install!

In case it helps anyone, here are the (great) resources I followed/used:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32860199335.html - Footwell lighting kit (Arrived within 7 days, came with all nessecary connectors and cabling wrapped nicely in cloth tape)

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/306451-retro-fit-footwell-lights-octy-iii/page/2/#comment-3792172

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2upmPRgAFu4 (This one saved me so much time!)

Picture attached of my car post-retrofit. Unsure whether to change the overhead lights to LED too, as the colour temperature mismatch bugs me!

Anyway, onto the questions. I want to take this a step further, during my exploration through OBDeleven I noticed a few other options for background lighting, or door ambient lighting. I have seen pictures of other MK3 Octavias with light-strips in the door panels and such. I was wondering if anyone knew of the part numbers for these (The carbon trim inserts that are level with the door handle). I am keen to retrofit (almost) the entire ambient lighting system. I know the facelift cars with the MIB2+ units have a different BCM that can support RGB, however I have an MIB1 with only 1 channel control so i'd happily settle for the one colour. I know there are non-standard options out there such as a 3rd party RGB controller with an app on my phone, but i'm really not interested in that. I am a little obsessed with OEM+ modification/retrofitting.

Edited 23 April, 20251 yr by Ripmax12345