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[crazykn]

Sometimes, don't you hate it when you open your door at night about and step onto something you wish you didnt? Well what I did today was made a nice mod to keep that from happening.

Using a small LED, I wired it up to the red safety light on the door and I now have a puddle lamp (or sort of), for the door of my S70.





This was shot at night, with the garage lights off.









The LED is from http://www.oznium.co...rface-mount-led and it is really bright. The one I used is a warm white color LED. It literally is as bright as regular bulb.

This is a very simple mod to do. Read on the Volvospeed reference on how to take apart the door panel. Remove the black cover protecting the door lock actuator. Then snap out the red safety lamp and using two T-Taps, connect the wires from this LED to it and just stick it in place. Tape up the wires and reattach the door panel and volia, you have a nice little luxury added to your car!

[Dan A]

Nice.  I may do this.

[magicaljake]

i really like that! nice work..

[Lentine850]

The light that comes on in the footwell usually illuminates the ground enough for me...

[Ghost Shadow]

i was thinking about doing this too but with a long strip of flat smd leds...that will be hot!

[beewerks]

I love it! I'm assuming you drilled a hole in the bottom of the door for the LED, did you put some kind of paint on the edges of the hole to keep it from rusting?

[crazykn]

I did zero drilling, the very tiny LED is actually a stick on LED!



Its incredibly bright for its size. The cost is very good too, considering its only $3.29 per LED. It fits in the gap between the door sill perfectly. For me it really does light up the ground below the door when open quite well. I do remember once I opened the door and almost didn't see the dog crap on the sidewalk.

Edited by crazykn, 15 December 2010 - 03:27 AM.

[JVC]

might have to do that but maybe with a few more led's to really light up the ground!

-John

[RobT5.]

Agreed im bookmarking the led site to review tomorrow. may be doing this in the next week or two. good idea.

[Travis016]

indeed. i will be doing this to my s70 as well on all 4 doors as i play taxi on weekends for the locals here on my reserve. imo this is pretty nifty.

[Keep Calm Chive On]

I like this idea but im curious how long it will last as only being sticky backed ribbon. I have the LED interior kit from EST when it was dirty cheap before carlisle & just like the dude who got -1'd mine lights up decently well but I wouldnt mind this to light up more

[crazykn]

The double stick backing of the LED is (I think) the same 3M double stick tape that is used on the 850/ 98 S70 Volvo logo on the fender. It holds pretty well and the LED and tape is supposedly waterproof. The solder points and wire lead off the LED is dipped in a resin so its fully sealed. The gap between the door and door sill is more enough for this LED, I think this light will last for a while.

[stevensane247]

Just did this to my v70, looks sick!

[crazykn]

I love how subtle this mod is and how it feels like its stock. I don't remember where I got the idea exactly from. (It might have been from the older BMW 7 series, which do have a similar light on their doors)

[POSTITSORGTFO]

This is win :thumbsup:

[crazykn]

I've decided to update this thread. I've done all four doors and even decided to add two cool white LEDs to the trunk!





For the trunk, I almost didn't even need to have the center trunk light (which I had a LED module in place) because these two LEDs were so bright covering the center lens, I couldn't tell a difference!






So far i'm very happy with the setup and i'm also contemplating on putting in footwell lights for the rear passengers as well! So many possibilities with these Oznium LEDs: http://www.oznium.co...rface-mount-led

[JC 855 GLT-R]

very cool

[Cal3thousand]

Nice job... I've been mulling over how I want to get this same thing done.

Thanks for the extra ideas and reminder.

Looking good!