How-To Fit Kickwell Lights

[Nick_Bush]

Not sure if this has been done, but I thought I would share...

To wire in kickwell lighting which works when you open and close the door, you can follow this if you are fitting LED strip lights or conventional lights, works exatly the same sort of way.

First pop the standard interior light down using a trim tool or flat blade, you should have 3 wires in the plug..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo1-1_zpsb3406179.jpg

Yellow and Green stripe (earth) Orange (perm 12V) and Blue (door trigger)

You will need a couple of meters of twin core cable to reach down to the bottom of the kickwell, the 2 wires you need to connect to are the Orange and Blue from your interior light plug..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo4-1_zps1ee0d332.jpg

Strip and solder, insulate once done, run the wire through the roof lining, down the A Pillar and into the passenger kickwell..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo3-1_zps2b9caf0b.jpg

At this point you can now pop the light back in and any other bits of trim you removed, bare in mind, the cable is now live, obviously you can connect the wire to the interior light last, I didnt.

The lights I used were boot lights from a Corsa B, make sure you get a bit of loom with them..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo25_zps41b5a880.jpg

I wanted to use these sorts of lights to keep it "factory looking", im not into OTT LED lights, just subtle and OEM+.

After looking round, I found a great spot under the passenger side dash to mount the first light..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo5-1_zpse85fe4cb.jpg

Just above the bonnet pull and below fuse box, was a perfect size the light I had. The drivers side has a carpet/felt panel, so remove the 2 poppers and pull out.
You will need a stanley blade to cut out a slot to fit your light, measure twice, cut once! I fitted mine the same way up and roughly the same distance as the passenger side so the lights would shine the same..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo34_zps003c8eb6.jpg

Extend your twin core core cable from the light (drivers side) and run round the back of the dash, under the carpets, etc to the passenger side, you will need to join together shortly. You can now pop the carpet panel back in place, thats the drivers side done.

Using the loom you got with the light, connect the first light (passenger side) to the loom you have run from the A Pillar, aswell as the drivers side you have just run over..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo45_zps36612358.jpg

Wiring colours on my twin core cable here are Red to Red, Black to Black, nice and easy. Red is the perm live from the interior light (Orange wire) Black is the door trigger wire from interior light (Blue wire).

Now once the connections are done, pop in your passenger light..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo54_zps8a4f5074.jpg

If you hav'nt already, connect to the interior light, if you did that in first part, your lights should be working..

Passenger side..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo24_zps59bfea96.jpg

Drivers side..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo14_zps3179eee3.jpg

If you are fitted LED lights, you must make sure you use the Orange interior light wire as your 12v and the Blue as your earth, otherwise they will not work, with these bulbs, it does not matter, you can use either one as your 12v or earth.

[Nick_Bush]

The pics here are in a lit workshop, they are really bright in the night, you could obviously use an after market bulb with differant wattage or colour if you wanted.

[Kirky]

Looks pretty good mate

[stimsonlee]

Nice guide mate :) might try it soon

[Nates-VTR]

Nice guide mate, unfortunately I never thought of this when I was fitting my footwell LEDs would have been cool! Fair play!

[DavidsVTR]

I like it! :y:

Simple... But effective!

Nice guide

[SwedisH777]

been thinking of doing some footwell lighting for a while, definitely the best idea i've seen so far!!

[JoshSmith]

Bookmarked! Now to get some foreign parts from work ;)

[JordyT]

great guide! going to do this when i strip my interior for retrim. personally going to go with bright white bulbs :) good stuff dude!

[mlawlan69]

Great guide this. Very detailed and clear instructions tyvm :)

[MartinObviously]

Looks good :y:

I'll be doing a conversion like this at some point this year :D

[Jigs2895]

Just tried doing this with my LED's and it was a failure lol. Don't know why but was just getting no power to the LED's at all....

[MartinObviously]

Just tried doing this with my LED's and it was a failure lol. Don't know why but was just getting no power to the LED's at all....

Did you connect them up right? and are they rated 12v?

did you connect them in series or parallel?

[Jigs2895]

I bought some standard cable, black and red, ran it all the way down from the interior light, the red connected to the orange and the black to the blue. Then connected the leds the then end of the black and reds in the footwell and nothing happened.

[Jigs2895]

So i got these working this morning, and they come on when the doors open. is there anyway i can have it so the footwells switch on when i turn the interior light on without the doors being open?

[MartinObviously]

So i got these working this morning, and they come on when the doors open. is there anyway i can have it so the footwells switch on when i turn the interior light on without the doors being open?

Sure, if you change how it's wired at the light. but then it won't come on when you open the doors.

Easiest way would be to fit a switch in parallel with one of the door switches. it's also the simplest to explain :P

[Jigs2895]

Ah fuck, just pulled it out to fit a switch like you said, however i thought against it half way through, put it all back together, and now the door switches arn't working at all! The interior light works, but it no longer comes on anymore when the doors open, so nether do the footwell lights :(

Tried running a lead from the interior light blue socket to the foor switch, still nothing... Any suggestions?

[MartinObviously]

Ah fuck, just pulled it out to fit a switch like you said, however i thought against it half way through, put it all back together, and now the door switches arn't working at all! The interior light works, but it no longer comes on anymore when the doors open, so nether do the footwell lights :(

Tried running a lead from the interior light blue socket to the foor switch, still nothing... Any suggestions?

Sounds like the switch died when you disturbed it, that's what happened to the ones in my GTI.

The passenger door switch has started working again though.

No idea what to suggest really.

[Jigs2895]

You were right! Went to the scrap yard and bought 1 switch just to try it and boom its lighting up beautifully, except i only bought one switch and both switches are stuck, so of to the scrap yard again tomorrow to grab another one! Cheers for your help!

[GTuff]

Not sure if this has been done, but I thought I would share...

To wire in kickwell lighting which works when you open and close the door, you can follow this if you are fitting LED strip lights or conventional lights, works exatly the same sort of way.

First pop the standard interior light down using a trim tool or flat blade, you should have 3 wires in the plug..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo1-1_zpsb3406179.jpg

Yellow and Green stripe (earth) Orange (perm 12V) and Blue (door trigger)

You will need a couple of meters of twin core cable to reach down to the bottom of the kickwell, the 2 wires you need to connect to are the Orange and Blue from your interior light plug..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo4-1_zps1ee0d332.jpg

Strip and solder, insulate once done, run the wire through the roof lining, down the A Pillar and into the passenger kickwell..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo3-1_zps2b9caf0b.jpg

At this point you can now pop the light back in and any other bits of trim you removed, bare in mind, the cable is now live, obviously you can connect the wire to the interior light last, I didnt.

The lights I used were boot lights from a Corsa B, make sure you get a bit of loom with them..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo25_zps41b5a880.jpg

I wanted to use these sorts of lights to keep it "factory looking", im not into OTT LED lights, just subtle and OEM+.

After looking round, I found a great spot under the passenger side dash to mount the first light..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo5-1_zpse85fe4cb.jpg

Just above the bonnet pull and below fuse box, was a perfect size the light I had. The drivers side has a carpet/felt panel, so remove the 2 poppers and pull out.
You will need a stanley blade to cut out a slot to fit your light, measure twice, cut once! I fitted mine the same way up and roughly the same distance as the passenger side so the lights would shine the same..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo34_zps003c8eb6.jpg

Extend your twin core core cable from the light (drivers side) and run round the back of the dash, under the carpets, etc to the passenger side, you will need to join together shortly. You can now pop the carpet panel back in place, thats the drivers side done.

Using the loom you got with the light, connect the first light (passenger side) to the loom you have run from the A Pillar, aswell as the drivers side you have just run over..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo45_zps36612358.jpg

Wiring colours on my twin core cable here are Red to Red, Black to Black, nice and easy. Red is the perm live from the interior light (Orange wire) Black is the door trigger wire from interior light (Blue wire).

Now once the connections are done, pop in your passenger light..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo54_zps8a4f5074.jpg

If you hav'nt already, connect to the interior light, if you did that in first part, your lights should be working..

Passenger side..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo24_zps59bfea96.jpg

Drivers side..

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/NickBush1981/photo14_zps3179eee3.jpg

If you are fitted LED lights, you must make sure you use the Orange interior light wire as your 12v and the Blue as your earth, otherwise they will not work, with these bulbs, it does not matter, you can use either one as your 12v or earth.

These look epic mate best job of footwell lights I've seen on a saxo yet, how much was the mod in total?

[Jigs2895]

Just £9 pounds later, and 2 hours of my day!! (Mainly making my wires super neat and hidden away) The photo doesn't do it justice, these were taken whilst it was still fairly light.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a554/Zac_Jiggins/WP_20130417_014_zps1548f6e9.jpg (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/Zac_Jiggins/media/WP_20130417_014_zps1548f6e9.jpg.html)

I also did the back footwells as well!! (A little harder to get wires to, but i found a way!)
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a554/Zac_Jiggins/WP_20130421_009_zps01e76199.jpg (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/Zac_Jiggins/media/WP_20130421_009_zps01e76199.jpg.html)

And all together, they look great! http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a554/Zac_Jiggins/WP_20130421_010_zps023a4a96.jpg (http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/Zac_Jiggins/media/WP_20130421_010_zps023a4a96.jpg.html)

[NAZIR9510]

looks great did you wire all of them just from the one interior light ?

[Jigs2895]

looks great did you wire all of them just from the one interior light ?

Yup, have two main wires travelling down from the interior light through the pillars into the passenger footwell, then you feed all the wires of that, so when i open the door all the footwell lights come on. Just have to make the wires neat when you feed them into the back footwells :y:

[D4NNY-801]

Yup, have two main wires travelling down from the interior light through the pillars into the passenger footwell, then you feed all the wires of that, so when i open the door all the footwell lights come on. Just have to make the wires neat when you feed them into the back footwells :y:

May be worth uprating the fuse a smidge

[Jigs2895]

May be worth uprating the fuse a smidge

Yeah that did run through my mind... which fuse would i bump up though? The fuse for the interior lights in the main compartment under the glove box?

[Nick_Bush]

Led lights will not cause hardly any current draw. But if you wanted to, to be safe up the fuse from a 10a to 15a. Glad it helped mate.

[jamie1994]

great guide mate, going to do mine this week some time :)

[Nick_Bush]

great guide mate, going to do mine this week some time :);)no problem..

[s17xxo]

Good mod