Install went very well and only took a couple of hours this afternoon. Thanks for all of the good info. Went ahead and stuck LED's in all three domes. Map light on order.
--Mark
Rear Cargo Light Install
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Install went very well and only took a couple of hours this afternoon. Thanks for all of the good info. Went ahead and stuck LED's in all three domes. Map light on order.
--Mark
Zero issues. I would have been stumped about it not working in the ON position had I not read your post. I also installed an LED puck light on the hatch grab handle that swivels and rotates. I never use that handle so it seemed like the perfect place. A few bad pics below...
That's my neighbor's Land Rover in the third photo. I have nothing against LR's personally but he's had a lot of issues with it. There is currently a 3-foot diameter puddle of fluid under it and it hasn't moved for a while.
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it is very nice
I finally got around to doing this mod. I picked up a used light from the classifieds and wired it up yesterday. I really didn't want to mess with dropping the headliner so I thought I would try fishing a wire with the headliner in place.
Here is what I did:
I'll probably have to source another dome light because it doesn't look like I can take it apart easily to fix it. If it wasn't for this one small problem, this would probably have been a hour job.
Here is what I did:
- Made a template for the opening
- Marked and cut the headliner. I used a new razor blade for a good cut.
- Got a screwdriver under the headliner and popped the little support plug out.
- Used a piece of stiff wire and fished it through.
- Since I didn't have any slack in the stock wire, I decided to solder wires onto the tabs on the light. This proved to be a problem. I must have used too much heat and damaged the switch mechanism so the light no longer works on 'door' mode.
- Then I pulled the wire though, cut to length, added terminals, drilled holes and put it all back together.
I'll probably have to source another dome light because it doesn't look like I can take it apart easily to fix it. If it wasn't for this one small problem, this would probably have been a hour job.
I added a light to the rear cargo area as shown here. It helps but if I were going to do it again I would add one to the liftgate first so I would have some light shinning down on the open tailgate.
