Every time something (keys, sun glasses,…) dropped to the floor of my car at night I had to use my cell phone flash light to find it. So I came up with the idea of adding additional interior lights to my centre console.
This is what the finished project looks like
After a bit of research I bought two Hella type
2JA 002 931-031 lights, because they are switchable like the original dome lights, very cheap and easily available.
Because they are quite big, and space is limited it was a bit tricky to find the right place.
As you can see on the picture above my cover had some additional holes from one the pre owner’s phone or whatever. I filled these holes and the big one on top of the cover and painted the whole cover with a structure paint (plastic colour spray for automotive use) which came out pretty close to the original look.
I also had to cut into the inner structure of the console, this part is covered by the panel that holds the two buttons of the A/C.
The electrical part was a bit difficult as I wanted the lights to get on/off with the other interior lights (door contact switches) and I also wanted a light delay switch and it all should fit into the original wiring loom. This is what I came up
with (electric diagram).
start by following the wire of the luggage compartment light to the region where the green arrow points, there you will find the cable connectors of the original interior lights and the the wire coming from the door contact switch.
I used the door switch to activate the standard 4 pin relay for automotive use and used a light delay switch ('inter light delay YF703')
And here I found some space for the relays, mounted to a half moon shaped piece of plastic, held in place by its one weight.
