Under hood light
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Great topic! Both our GXs need a light in there. Guess they don’t want common folk to work on them..? Hah. Curious if the LC Prado has one?
It's a Lexus, who needs to work on it? Here is my solution.
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LED Engine Compartment Light KIT - Hood Light Kit for LEXUS GX470 - Land Cruiser Toyota Prado 120
yodaTEQ Engine Compartment Lighting (ECL) KIT is designed and built for the Lexus LX470 / Toyota Prado 120 Video Installation Instructions Written Installation Instructions For overland, expedition, offroad, dual battery, tire inflation setups, etc. When night time engine access is...yodateq.com
Excellent!!!
r2m
Richard
I keep one of these in my door pocket also!
r2m
Richard
One suggestion may be to use waterproof LED flexible light strips that can be trimed to length:
Amazon product ASIN B00HSF66JO
One could run a line of the lights around the inside perimeter of the hood and also maybe a short strip inside, along each fender. This would provide plenty of light for looking at almost anything under the hood, from the dip stick to any leaks lower on the engine block and of course good overhead lighting.
Also, I wonder if these wouldn't work for puddle lights! Probably provide a lot more light than just a single LED by each door.
Amazon product ASIN B00HSF66JO
One could run a line of the lights around the inside perimeter of the hood and also maybe a short strip inside, along each fender. This would provide plenty of light for looking at almost anything under the hood, from the dip stick to any leaks lower on the engine block and of course good overhead lighting.
Also, I wonder if these wouldn't work for puddle lights! Probably provide a lot more light than just a single LED by each door.
Run the + wire direct to the battery, and the negative wire to one terminal on a switch like this with the other terminal connected to chassis.
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