I fitted my footwell lights today. I made the mistake of purchasing a set of lights and looms from eBay but the power pin would’t fit my MY(61) control model. I couldn’t find/identify the correct Repair Wire that would be the right pin so I did what I should have done in the first place and purchased a full set of looms from
@RobinA3.
They arrived today and look quality.
I like the eBay looms where the rear needs to soldered to the front, Robin builds these looms with connectors so the rear simply plug into the front loom.
Fitting the eBay looms took about 60 min but when I replaced with the new looms they were all in in about 30min.
Feeding the lights to the rear, I didn’t remove the seats, just the kick panels and the sill trim. I was able to feed the wire down and hook it, pulling it up and out where the seat electrics exit the carpet.
These
cable access rods from amazon are great!
Feeding the cable between the front footwells, I removed the drivers side knee panel following the instructions on @RobinA3’s
Footwell Retrofit post. There is 3 screws holding the panel on, one of which is behind the fuse cover. There is 3 clips, 2 on the right and one to the left of the steering wheel - the panel will pull out of these so it’s important not to let the panel drop (at the back by the pedals) but keep it hight and slide it back allowing the clips to come free. The pic below attempts to show where the clips are.
I fed the access rods through from the drivers side to the passenger side, deep down beside the pedals and behind the RNS-E (which I didn’t remove). I was able to tape the loom to this and easily pull through.
I then connected the lights.
The earth wire, there is a bolt behind the fuse box into the chassis which I used. For the power wire from the loom, this needs to be connected to Pin 50 in white 52pin plug, it’s the white plug in the middle. I was successful this time having the right pin on the loom, unlike the eBay version.
For the coding, I made three changes to Module 09.
Byte 12, Bit 5
Byte 20, Bit 0
Byte 25, Bit 3
On ‘Do It’ the lights lit up.
It may be related to Byte 12 but I have Interior Lighting in my DIS. I’ve set the lights to 100%. The come on with the door warning lights but also when the headlights come on.
I took the car for a run and when turning right, or full lock to the right there is a terrible clicking... It’s never ending.