I wanted to add some blue lighting to the footwell area of my new PiP to match the external color without dropping lots of money, so after spending $5 for some LED lights, I'm EXTREMELY happy with how this ended up looking! It looks a little more purple in the pictures than it looks in person.
The existing footwell lights stay on when the doors are closed and the car is on/ready/moving. It dims down really low so I never noticed it until I checked yesterday. Which LEDs did you buy? I was following another thread regarding the footwell lights and they were replacing the factory orange LEDs with white ones from an ES350. But those were about $40 for the pair IIRC.
I bought these for $2.39 apiece:Blue 12 SMD 5050 LED Car Interior Light Lamp T10 Dome BA9S Festoon Adapter 12V | eBay (not sure why the seller for some reason increased the price by $50) and just plugged them into the same cable the factory ones were using. They perform identical to the built in ones dimming and such while moving, then dimming off after a few seconds after the car is powered off and locked.
I know this an old post - I'd love to see pictures. In looking at my current footwell lights, they appear to be a single LED, not a board of LED's...? thanks, Mark
I am curious as to how you attached the LED's? My 2011 appears to have a single LED that slips into the dash underside cover. Thanks, Mark
The ones that were linked above had a little black 2 prong connector attached to a wire that connects to the "board of LEDs". That connector was perfectly sized to plug into the existing stock LED module socket. Here's a pic of what I'm talking about
Thanks! I am looking for something that will fit in the OEM mount. Another member sent me a link to some, but there's some question about whether or not the color blue is available. Here's the link: SHARE STYLE | Rakuten Global Market: for a Toyota (Toyota) car general-purpose inner lamp LED illuminations step light (foot lamp)! White / white / red / red / blue / blue / pink Thanks, Mark
I received the blue foot well lights as to the previously included link. Perfect fit, just like the stock ones. 5 minute install. They work and look great! All in, they were $27 shipped to my door for the two of them. Mark