Has anyone looked into fitting LED door handle lights? - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

Ganthrithor · 03-06-2013, 04:01 PM

For some reason I really like the little white LEDs that BMW puts in their door handles-- the ones that light up along with the cabin lighting when you unlock the car. I dug up the electrical wiring diagrams for the BRZ that are posted on this site and noticed only two sets of wires running into the door handles: one for the key antenna and one for the power locks.

Anyone have any idea how difficult it would be to add an LED to the handles? Bonus points if you could figure out how to get them to fade on and off properly :3

snapplepat · 06-21-2015, 01:22 AM

Obviously very old thread, but this idea popped into my head just now and search brought me here... Anyone got some ideas on this? could it be as "simple" as running a wire up to the handle tied into the dome light? The dome light comes on with proximity as well as the unlock button. How cool would it be to walk up and have em come on?!

ZOMFGAARON · 06-21-2015, 01:46 AM

Brzs have courtesy lights stock in the doors correct? Do these come on only when the door opens or when you unlock it like the dome?

If they come on like the dome it would be easy to add it to handle but you'll have to have a body shop drill a hole and add an led.

If it doesn't come on you could still wide it to the dome light like frs guys do for courtesy lights.

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KungFuWaffle · 06-21-2015, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by snapplepat

Obviously very old thread, but this idea popped into my head just now and search brought me here... Anyone got some ideas on this? could it be as "simple" as running a wire up to the handle tied into the dome light? The dome light comes on with proximity as well as the unlock button. How cool would it be to walk up and have em come on?!

If you wire it to the dome light, whenever you turn on your done to find something ins die, it'll light up on the exterior too. I wired some led strips where to footwell is to my dome lights and turn on whenever I flip the switch too

BlueSky · 06-22-2015, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by KungFuWaffle

If you wire it to the dome light, whenever you turn on your done to find something ins die, it'll light up on the exterior too. I wired some led strips where to footwell is to my dome lights and turn on whenever I flip the switch too

any pictures?

KungFuWaffle · 06-25-2015, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueSky

any pictures?

Of the footwell? On Instagram scroll down a bit and see the led strips I out up. @ledworkz.
I wired the red to the ignition and are on whenever the key is in, and the white to my dome light which is linked to my door when I open and close them

Brypham · 08-05-2015, 04:14 AM

I'll be doing this to my frs within the next month.. Been searching for the best led bulb to fit on the frs handle. Did this to all four doors on my nissan frontier few years ago..turns on when I unlock the doors

03-06-2013, 04:01 PM	#1
Ganthrithor Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Drives: '13 BRZ, '06 997, Other Things(TM) Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 1,078 Thanks: 1,715 Thanked 670 Times in 351 Posts Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Has anyone looked into fitting LED door handle lights? For some reason I really like the little white LEDs that BMW puts in their door handles-- the ones that light up along with the cabin lighting when you unlock the car. I dug up the electrical wiring diagrams for the BRZ that are posted on this site and noticed only two sets of wires running into the door handles: one for the key antenna and one for the power locks. Anyone have any idea how difficult it would be to add an LED to the handles? Bonus points if you could figure out how to get them to fade on and off properly :3

08-05-2015, 04:14 AM	#7
Brypham Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Drives: Halo 2015 Scion FR-S Location: CA, Orange County Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 22 Times in 4 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I'll be doing this to my frs within the next month.. Been searching for the best led bulb to fit on the frs handle. Did this to all four doors on my nissan frontier few years ago..turns on when I unlock the doors __________________

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snapplepat Skerrrrt Join Date: Feb 2014 Drives: Turrrbaa BRZ Location: WI Posts: 36 Thanks: 2 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Obviously very old thread, but this idea popped into my head just now and search brought me here... Anyone got some ideas on this? could it be as "simple" as running a wire up to the handle tied into the dome light? The dome light comes on with proximity as well as the unlock button. How cool would it be to walk up and have em come on?!

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ZOMFGAARON A Demon Join Date: Dec 2013 Drives: Raven GT86 Location: Denver Posts: 1,992 Thanks: 190 Thanked 1,321 Times in 701 Posts Mentioned: 20 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Brzs have courtesy lights stock in the doors correct? Do these come on only when the door opens or when you unlock it like the dome? If they come on like the dome it would be easy to add it to handle but you'll have to have a body shop drill a hole and add an led. If it doesn't come on you could still wide it to the dome light like frs guys do for courtesy lights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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