mick 1986
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Mine is fitted forward of the sunroof, between the sun visors, but I don’t think it makes a great deal of difference.
Mine is fitted forward of the sunroof, between the sun visors, but I don’t think it makes a great deal of difference.
mick 1986
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Especially if you replace the bulb for an LED version. It should be plenty bright enough then.
Oh yeah it's bright enough. It's just that it won't come on when I open the back door which is why I need to buy another. It's got loads of little bulbs in it, so when there's two, I might be able to light up the entire field :0).
mick 1986
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They are SMDs. Basically surface mounted LEDs. It will be unbearable with 2.
Do you reckon I could link the door pin switch I've bought to this one and leave it positioned in the middle then?
mick 1986
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Yes that will be easy to do. Fit the door switch. Get a length of single black wire. Crimp a female spade on it for the new door switch. Run the cable up the side of the rear door, along the headlining, and connect it up to the earth wire. One of my earth wires is wired direct to the chassis, this wire is used for the 3 way switch on the housing. The other is connected to all the door switches, so any switch will turn on all lights.
mick 1986
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Not really. Leave everything as it was before you removed the headlining. Fit your new switch to the rear door area. Run a single wire, preferably black to signify 0V/earth, up to the black wire on the current light.
Your current light should have 3 wires going up to it. One live, probably a purple, and 2 blacks (these may not be solid black, and should be different colour traces). Connect your black wire from your switch to one of the earth wires. I can’t remember which wire I connected to, but one didn’t work correctly.
mick 1986
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Mine is also a 1992, but it’s a 110 CSW. Maybe yours is wired differently?
Either way, that makes it easier do you to wire up. Connect the new door switch, with a black wire, to the current black wire at the light. If you have a multimeter, check to make sure the black is earth before assuming and possibly shorting to earth.
Brilliant. I know exactly what I'm doing now. Thanks for being patient. Got a multi-meter under the stairs and your very words are now on my blackboard. Cheers.
mick 1986
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Let me know how you get on with it. It should be plug and play.
mick 1986
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Most of my roof wiring is run down either side, same as the rear washer tube on the passenger side.
I insulated over all the beams on my roof, and if I were to do it again, I wouldn’t this time. It made the roof lining a bitch to put back on, and the extra insulation you gain from covering them is probably negligible.
I sealed my roof from outside, but I sealed every joint on the roof.
The sunroof will probably be best sealed from outside too.
Don’t cover them front holes. They house the nut plates for the roof to windscreen bolts.
Superstar. Cheers for that. I know what I'm doing now.
