Footwell lights in 2009 Levin ZR

[Seby123]

after christmas/new years is fine. im only allowed to drive the car after christmas since its a present...Cuong if you're putting in new lights how about i buy the old ones of you? Or are they no good anymore?

[czaja74]

I need to attach the wires to the strips and I was wondering if there is sort of clamp connector that i can hook up the wires to and just clip to the strip.

[dutchie101]

Dont think so. You can solder in the male/male connector or solder in the wires direst to the strip.

[czaja74]

For anyone interested HERE are connectors.

[dutchie101]

Good find! By the look of them you will still need to solder them together anyway to join two of them.. or use cumbersome terminals.

[czaja74]

Looking at THIS paticular one. It will be perfect. I post some photos after I get all installed.

[czaja74]

Installed and everything worked well, for 2 days :( The controller remembers last state leds were in. Also I can change colors and brightnes to something that suits me well. Well here comes a bad part. These terminals are crap. Somewhat they lost contact and it seems like Ill have to solder everything. Tried to do one but for some reason wire doesnt want to stick :( to the led. I propably do something wrong.

[dutchie101]

Great to hear you got it all working smoothly, congrats :D I thought the crimp terminals may be a bit how-ya-goin.

Anyhoo, Be sure to strip off all the clear poly cover, and gently sand the pad with some 800grit wet'n'dry paper. Tin your pads, tin your wire, and have a hot small iron and solder with a tiny blob of additional solder. I would say heat and contamination would be your problems. Be sure to get some heat shrink to to slip over the solder/end of the SMD strip.

If needed also clean the tabs with a little metho.

Q: did your solder have a flux core? Flux assists with removing contamination..I also hope you used lead solder. Lead free solder sux.

Hope that helps a little

Edit: Found this vid,

[czaja74]

New led arrived. All installed and working like a dream. I'll post some shots on the weekend.

[dutchie101]

Good to hear. New strips or new colour driver? Did they replace the faulty one?

[Branno]

HELLLLPPPPPP. I have teh 08 ZRE and there are only 3 wires and they are all white and pink, there are no blue wires. which one is the positive?

[justchris]

White with red stripe and the white one on the right hand-side. If I was you I would use a multi-metre and double check and mark the polarity when installing your foot lights. Good Luck!

HELLLLPPPPPP. I have teh 08 ZRE and there are only 3 wires and they are all white and pink, there are no blue wires. which one is the positive?

[Branno]

Thanks, How do I tell which wire is positive or negative from my actual lights, One wire is black with grey markings, and the other is just plain black?

[DJKOR]

Thanks, How do I tell which wire is positive or negative from my actual lights, One wire is black with grey markings, and the other is just plain black?

Buy yourself a multimeter. Even a $7.95 one will do the trick (so long as you don't intend on using it for reasonable accurate stuff). They are handy to have in situations like these.

[Branno]

alright, i tested it and the wire on the right is putting out a reading. I take thats the positive

[Branno]

what i dont know, is which wire coming from the LED strip is positive or negative.

[Branno]

lol, **** fail. accidently touched the bare wire with the pliers and BAM! Think ive short circuited it. Where would the fuse be?

[Branno]

All sorted, looks great! Definately a cheap and easy project which has a great outcome!

[dutchie101]

Bumped cause i found these nice little SMD discs.

Ebay SMD discs

2mm high, 30mm diameter red, white, green, blue.

1X5050(3-chip) - I would think these would be a nice level of light, not too much, not too little.. worth a try..

[2204]

looks great mate

[u54mot]

Scotch Locks: What AWG size would one get to tap into the wires?

Thanks.

[dutchie101]

Cant remember exactly Thomas, i think the blue or the dark brown/black ones are fine (Narva brand)

[u54mot]

Bottom right (black) 4mm:

Thanks, Pete.

[ben yip]

Not sure if this is helpful..

i have posted the full factory installation menu in here a while ago for fog lights, spoiler and skirt for our zre 2010+. It is not easy to install

http://au.toyotaowne...ight-skirt-etc/

search in google like this

PART NUMBER site:http://www.toyota-tech.eu

Edited February 7, 2012 by ben yip

[RichardZR]

niceeeee, helped me heaps, rocking footwells now

19 bucks from jaycar strip of 30 leds

5 min job :D

Edited September 13, 2013 by RichardZR