Been doing this install over past couple weeks. Finally got around to doing the interior part.
Relay module:
Made a bracket out of stacked pieces of aluminum angle to lower and space out the supplied Auxbeam bracket out into the open space. Mounted the breaker under a bolt that is holding the bracket for those electrical connectors. I did the usual, cut the nipple off the main firewall grommet and ran the connector through taped to a hanger. (Also ran a 8x22 gauge cable through for any switching needs I might have in the future.
Interior Install:
I like the switch panel in the sunglasses holder idea. There is a thread here with plans to 3D print a panel to fit in the switch module in that cubby. But also the cubby I use the most is the sunglass cubby, so I don’t want to lose it. Therefore I decided to attach it to the coin cubby to the left of the steering wheel in an LX.
I disassembled the cubby completely to get an idea of how it worked and also reattach the spring that had become unclocked to a tab making my cubby door not open by itself anymore (Something I broke last year sometime). The painted front cover of the cubby is removable and there is enough room behind it that I only ran my bolts through the cover from the back and then snapped it back in place onto the cubby. The way it attaches to the cubby, I’m not too worried this will cause issues in the future.
The hardest part was figuring out where to run the cable. You need a pretty good size hole to get the 4 prong connector through. After studying the cubby I found a way to run the cable where I could drill one 3/8” hole in the rear outside the cubby so that my wire doesn’t actually run through the cubby at all. I used a dremel to notch the front planel of the cubby so that it can still swing back to open. The only thing I couldn’t do was run the plastic cover for the wire connection through the hole to screw down the connection from the relay unit. The connection is pretty solid and I don’t think it’s necessary where you don’t care about water tightness. Just sliding the connectors together makes a pretty solid connection.
I used the tilting bracket from the box and located it lower down on the cubby so it would be pulled back under the dash more. I was worried about my knee bouncing off it, but so far seems okey. I’m on the taller side and there is plenty of room sitting in the driver's seat. (It doesn’t look straight in that second picture, but that’s a camera illusion). Waiting on it to get dark to see how the lighting works.
This is the Bluetooth version that has an App. Full color/brightness control as well as a couple different modes for each switch and switch grouping. Hopefully I dont regret not splurging on a SwitchPros, as the app is a bit janky. Ive tested connecting it to the Android app on my Grom Vline 2 but that’s fairly useless because you need portrait mode to customize the buttons and backlight and even with using an app to force the Grom into portrait mode to make the changes, the scaling is all off and I couldn’t really work with it. If you could do the customization settings somehow, then the Grom would work great, but as it stands, I’ll have to use my iPhone , or use the Grom with no button labels.
Relay module:
Made a bracket out of stacked pieces of aluminum angle to lower and space out the supplied Auxbeam bracket out into the open space. Mounted the breaker under a bolt that is holding the bracket for those electrical connectors. I did the usual, cut the nipple off the main firewall grommet and ran the connector through taped to a hanger. (Also ran a 8x22 gauge cable through for any switching needs I might have in the future.
Interior Install:
I like the switch panel in the sunglasses holder idea. There is a thread here with plans to 3D print a panel to fit in the switch module in that cubby. But also the cubby I use the most is the sunglass cubby, so I don’t want to lose it. Therefore I decided to attach it to the coin cubby to the left of the steering wheel in an LX.
I disassembled the cubby completely to get an idea of how it worked and also reattach the spring that had become unclocked to a tab making my cubby door not open by itself anymore (Something I broke last year sometime). The painted front cover of the cubby is removable and there is enough room behind it that I only ran my bolts through the cover from the back and then snapped it back in place onto the cubby. The way it attaches to the cubby, I’m not too worried this will cause issues in the future.
The hardest part was figuring out where to run the cable. You need a pretty good size hole to get the 4 prong connector through. After studying the cubby I found a way to run the cable where I could drill one 3/8” hole in the rear outside the cubby so that my wire doesn’t actually run through the cubby at all. I used a dremel to notch the front planel of the cubby so that it can still swing back to open. The only thing I couldn’t do was run the plastic cover for the wire connection through the hole to screw down the connection from the relay unit. The connection is pretty solid and I don’t think it’s necessary where you don’t care about water tightness. Just sliding the connectors together makes a pretty solid connection.
I used the tilting bracket from the box and located it lower down on the cubby so it would be pulled back under the dash more. I was worried about my knee bouncing off it, but so far seems okey. I’m on the taller side and there is plenty of room sitting in the driver's seat. (It doesn’t look straight in that second picture, but that’s a camera illusion). Waiting on it to get dark to see how the lighting works.
This is the Bluetooth version that has an App. Full color/brightness control as well as a couple different modes for each switch and switch grouping. Hopefully I dont regret not splurging on a SwitchPros, as the app is a bit janky. Ive tested connecting it to the Android app on my Grom Vline 2 but that’s fairly useless because you need portrait mode to customize the buttons and backlight and even with using an app to force the Grom into portrait mode to make the changes, the scaling is all off and I couldn’t really work with it. If you could do the customization settings somehow, then the Grom would work great, but as it stands, I’ll have to use my iPhone , or use the Grom with no button labels.
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