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05-17-2002, 11:28 AM
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lights in air vents
hey, sup. I was chillin at my friends the other day an we were thinking of shit to do to my hatch that would be free mods. And i had these lil blue lights on the interior an he had the idea to move it into the vents. He wired it behind the dash an into the 2 far air vents. it looks so tiite at night when the vents glow blue. i never have seen this on a car (its probley been done) so to me it looks nice and original. dont yell at me if someone else has done it already (please).
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05-17-2002, 01:52 PM
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yea in my friends crx he put the blue LED's in his vents and it looks phat. he also has a clear shift boot, and led's under it so it lights up.
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05-21-2002, 01:20 AM
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Where can you get these LED's and how do you wire them? Run them through the AC???
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05-21-2002, 03:46 PM
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im not sure how he wired them up, like how he ran the wires or nothing, but you can get the bulbs at any hardware store.
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05-22-2002, 02:57 PM
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l.e.d.s
u can get some hyper leds to place in the car go to varad.com
they dont sell them on the site but u can get them at just about any audio place they sell around were i am at for 8 bucks each
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05-22-2002, 03:02 PM
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My friend got those stupid strobe lights, and wired them in behind his vents... That looked sweet I must say.
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05-22-2002, 03:29 PM
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but how do you wire them?
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05-22-2002, 06:03 PM
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As far as wiring, most of those lights are the common automotive 12v. You just hook + to + and - to ground. You should probably throw a switch in there or just tap into the parking lights for the +12v so they come on only when your parking lights are on. Switch would be better in case you want to turn them off at night w/o turning off your headlights.
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05-22-2002, 06:59 PM
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BUT WHERE DO YOU RUN THE WIRES?!? Through the AC ports? You can't run them over your dash.
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05-23-2002, 03:56 PM
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my friend ran his through the dash somehow, not to sure on it tho.
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05-26-2002, 11:46 PM
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i'm hopefully going to try this during the week...anyone have any suggestions? still looking for the best location to run the wires before i have to use the trial and error method. any help is much appreciated.
also, what bulb would be best? thanks a lot.
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05-27-2002, 10:40 AM
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Slowest Automatic Civic
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my friend just used LED lights from radio shack.
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05-28-2002, 03:37 PM
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you should try running the wires under the dash to the radio and splice them in there so they only come on when the cars on.
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