Door sills delayed...i broke something in the car
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Door sills delayed...i broke something in the car
Some how i messed up the grounding and now my rear interior lights no longer light up... that means i lost my ceiling lights, front ambient lights, visor lights, and rear courtesy lights
no idea how this happened as i was very careful the whole time, but yeah, now i have to jump through the dealer hoops
in the meantime i am very sad and tears are running down my eyes as i replace my LEDs with stock bulbs...
no idea how this happened as i was very careful the whole time, but yeah, now i have to jump through the dealer hoops
in the meantime i am very sad and tears are running down my eyes as i replace my LEDs with stock bulbs...
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Wow nice job KG. Good job on the post whoring btw. I had no idea this wasn't for the rear sills. Looks good though. You used the dome light to connect to the sill? Do the rear sills light up as well?
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Back, not gonna finish tonight, i am le tired.
Heres the thing with the rears, the large curvature is a huge problem.
If the rears were flat, they would be lighted too, no problem but because they are curved... how do i get light to shine through?
The fronts are easy, a flat sill is cut out of a flat sheet, the rears would have to be modeled in 3D (outside of my expertise) and cut out of a solid block to have the right curvature (out of my cost range)
Now, i do know a way to achieve something similar for the rears, but it wont have any depth to it like the front does
Another thing i had to consider was that when you are adding more square inches of lighting tape it requires a larger (read: more expensive) power inverter.
So for all the use i get out of my rear doors (which is pretty much non-existant) and the additional effort and cost required, i decided it wasnt worth it to bother with the rear sills. At some point in the future, i may just do something with the rears so they just say the words "Acura" but ATM im totally cool with a CF overlay on them just so they atleast match the front
Heres the thing with the rears, the large curvature is a huge problem.
If the rears were flat, they would be lighted too, no problem but because they are curved... how do i get light to shine through?
The fronts are easy, a flat sill is cut out of a flat sheet, the rears would have to be modeled in 3D (outside of my expertise) and cut out of a solid block to have the right curvature (out of my cost range)
Now, i do know a way to achieve something similar for the rears, but it wont have any depth to it like the front does
Another thing i had to consider was that when you are adding more square inches of lighting tape it requires a larger (read: more expensive) power inverter.
So for all the use i get out of my rear doors (which is pretty much non-existant) and the additional effort and cost required, i decided it wasnt worth it to bother with the rear sills. At some point in the future, i may just do something with the rears so they just say the words "Acura" but ATM im totally cool with a CF overlay on them just so they atleast match the front
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And @ swoosh, thank you, reading what you wrote in blutsx' other thread really helped me mentally figure out where to tap the line
I'll have more pics soon, i worked on these alot today but running the wires and everything is tedious, when i blew that fuse i figured i should take a break and go out or something
I'll have more pics soon, i worked on these alot today but running the wires and everything is tedious, when i blew that fuse i figured i should take a break and go out or something
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And @ swoosh, thank you, reading what you wrote in blutsx' other thread really helped me mentally figure out where to tap the line
I'll have more pics soon, i worked on these alot today but running the wires and everything is tedious, when i blew that fuse i figured i should take a break and go out or something
I'll have more pics soon, i worked on these alot today but running the wires and everything is tedious, when i blew that fuse i figured i should take a break and go out or something
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