The following is a tutorial to add ambient lighting to the shifter/center console area via the unused holes in the front center overhead console of your 200 series Land Cruiser. This was done on a 2015, but other years should be similar.
Parts required:
Remove the front row center overhead console. Remove screws circled in red and remove the black plastic shroud.
Remove the switch for the lights and dremel out channels for your new LEDs to be installed.
Solder up a wiring harness as described in the photos. Use thin wire and do not have excess between the two LEDs. Any excess here will not let the circuit boards be reassembled. Leave about a foot of wiring past the LEDs to connect to the circuit board.
Reassemble overhead console, fish wires out as shown. Leave a decent bit of length here for future disassembly. Make sure the wires are not pinched because the switches won't work right if the board can not seat fully.
Solder wires to LED illumination contacts on board. These are already appropriate voltage for LED so you do not need any resistors in your circuit.
Blah blah increase amp draw through the circuit blah blah. There were empty spaces for LEDs on the circuit board so my best guess is Toyota-san allowed for some additional load on the circuit. Havent popped anything, YMMV, etc.
Be careful soldering, if you bridge the two connections you are gonna burn out something in your interior lighting circuit, and that something could be expensive!
Meat and potatoes here folks! These are the pins to get power for the LEDs.
Tuck your wires in behind the circuit board, if you do not, the sunroof switch wont be fully depressed by the black plastic cover and will rattle.
Hi little lights!
Test it out, reassemble it, enjoy your ambient lighting.
Parts required:
- 3mm LEDs of your color choice (I chose cool white)
- Thin wire, 22 or 24 Gauge. I used some stripped Cat 5 wiring I had and it was perfect.
- Heat Shrink tubing, 1/16" and 3/16"
- Flathead and phillips screwdriver
- Dremel with grinding bit
- Soldering iron with fine tip, solder, flux
- Lighter for heat shrink
- Wire stripper/cutter
Remove the front row center overhead console. Remove screws circled in red and remove the black plastic shroud.
Remove the switch for the lights and dremel out channels for your new LEDs to be installed.
Solder up a wiring harness as described in the photos. Use thin wire and do not have excess between the two LEDs. Any excess here will not let the circuit boards be reassembled. Leave about a foot of wiring past the LEDs to connect to the circuit board.
Reassemble overhead console, fish wires out as shown. Leave a decent bit of length here for future disassembly. Make sure the wires are not pinched because the switches won't work right if the board can not seat fully.
Solder wires to LED illumination contacts on board. These are already appropriate voltage for LED so you do not need any resistors in your circuit.
Blah blah increase amp draw through the circuit blah blah. There were empty spaces for LEDs on the circuit board so my best guess is Toyota-san allowed for some additional load on the circuit. Havent popped anything, YMMV, etc.
Be careful soldering, if you bridge the two connections you are gonna burn out something in your interior lighting circuit, and that something could be expensive!
Meat and potatoes here folks! These are the pins to get power for the LEDs.
Tuck your wires in behind the circuit board, if you do not, the sunroof switch wont be fully depressed by the black plastic cover and will rattle.
Hi little lights!
Test it out, reassemble it, enjoy your ambient lighting.