This project should appeal to most car owners. Everyone must have tried to find shoes under the seats and knows that the interior lights are so dim that it is quite difficult to find. So why don't you make a do-it-yourself LED car interior lighting and make it stand out among others?

Necessary note: I didn't want to risk the integrity of my wiring, so I didn't cut anything, just threw the wires over the top. Now, let's get down to business from talking.

What do we need for illumination? So:

- LED strips. I prefer to use RGB strips, which allow me to choose from a number of colors rather than just one color.
- RGB LED strip controller with remote control.
- Four-core wire. Usually the V+ (white), R (red), G (green) and B (blue) wires come from the LED strip.
- Connectors.
- Soldering iron.
- Silicone adhesive.
You will also need brains and patience. Because as soon as you make this LED car interior lighting, you will start begging the sun for sunset to drive your pumped car))).

Once the plan has become clear, we proceed to the design of the wiring, taking into account the connectors. Why connectors? They play an important role in both connection and protection of the connection. Let's say a few LEDs have failed. No one wants to rip out all the wiring. When using connectors, it will only be necessary to remove the faulty section of the tape, repair or replace them and insert them into place.

In the following image, we see four connectors located in pairs at the back and front. Thus the wire to each tape passes between them. The LED controller is connected to a 12V power supply.
Now, since I don't want to cut the wiring and include additional fuses in the circuit, I will power it from the cigarette lighter or charger, which will be very simple to do. Also in this case, when the ignition key is removed, the lighting will go out.

Now that everything is planned out, the next very important step awaits us - measurements. The importance of this step is to place the elements in the right places in the future without pulling the wires.
The first measurements we take are for the interior lighting section, which is located under the dashboard, determining the total length of the two front LED strips. Secondly, we take measurements for the tapes located at the back, under the seats.
After this part of the work is done, we proceed to determine the length of the wires, bearing in mind that you need to have a margin of length to be able to fit where they are attached to the tapes. To determine the length of the wires, we measure the following sections:
- from the controller to the front left connector;
- from the front left connector to the front right connector;
- from the front left connector to the rear left connector;
- from the rear left connector to the rear right connector.
When connecting the lighting circuit under the seats, leave an extra length of wire so that the connections do not break when the chair is moved forward or backward.

After taking measurements, it's time to cut the LED strips to length.

For our project, four pieces of LED strip are needed. All LED strips have cut lines every three LEDs. Keep in mind that it is better to make the segment shorter than longer, as the extra “tail” of the tape will hang out, and this will give the appearance of an unfinished design and spoil the impression.

After soldering, it is best to check its quality by lighting all the colors of the LEDs in sequence. So, in the images we see that the test of three primary colors - red, green, blue.

If they light up without any problems, you need to ensure the safety of the soldering points. One way is to apply silicone glue, which will prevent the wires from contacting each other and ensure the rigidity of the connection.

ready to install in the car. In the same way, we will make three more, which will give us a total of four sections of car interior lighting.
Now it's time to get in the car and start connecting the circuit.

As you can see, first of all, we attach the LED strip located under the instrument panel to the glue. Then we attach a connector to it. Pay attention to the photos - they clearly show what is being said here.

After the deed is done, let's hide our wires. It is enough to put the wires inside the panels and stretch them to the seats, where the next section of the LED interior lighting will be installed.

Under the chairs, the segments of the LED strip should not be glued with glue or adhesive tape, but passed between the springs and strings and tied at the ends. It should be noted that I left a sufficient margin of wire length so that the movement of the chair forward or backward does not affect the integrity of the connections. When this step is completed, we proceed to the alteration of the charger.

There are several different ways to power our interior lighting:
- from unused fuses from the fuse box, using jumpers;
- through the door panel. At the same time, the backlight will shine when the doors are open, and go out when they are closed;
- from the headlights (either from the main fuse box or from the cut wiring that feeds the headlights).
But we will use the charger. Why?
The reason for redesigning the charger is that I don't use the cigarette lighter for anything other than to charge my phone. So why not modify the "charge" if it is used frequently and thus make it easier to use it for two tasks at the same time.
Most phone chargers output 4V (which is not enough for our LED backlight). That is, they lower the voltage of the car battery from 12V to 4V. All we need is to run the wires past the voltage stabilizer.

When we open the charger, we will see a fuse (protects against overloads) and a stabilizer circuit (which lowers the voltage). We solder our wires to the fuse and to the "ground" bypassing the stabilizer. So we get the 12 V we need!
Thus, we will power our LED interior lighting. Once all the connections are made, let's start checking our work.

With the remote control you can:
- turn on / off the backlight;
- change colors;
- adjust the intensity;
- use fading effects.
Now it remains to wait for the sunset, and it will be possible to roll out our pumped car from the garage!

Testing interior lighting in the morning.

The LED illumination of the car disk is an exclusively decorative tuning that will not bring any benefit to the car owner other than the aesthetic pleasure of contemplating his car and driving it. Naturally, LED lighting, like any other type of car tuning, can be made in your own garage and it is not at all necessary to take the car to a tuning salon, where you will be charged quite a lot of money for such work.

What kind of backlight to make a car

Let's start with the fact that there are more than enough types of lighting for cars. It can be quite simple lighting of the passenger compartment or feet of the driver and passengers, and more complex lighting of the car disks and the space under the car. Which of these types of lighting to choose and proceed with its implementation is solely a matter of your taste, because there is no particular difficulty and much difference between installing the backlight on the car door and on the disks. The main thing is to understand the basic principles and carefully go through all the stages of work, and then you can get lighting for the car much cheaper than you could do it in a car dealership.

White backlight under the bottom of a white car and brief instructions for installing it

We will consider the general principles of organizing lighting for a car and the features of installing lighting for each element of a car, if necessary. Otherwise, you can easily use the same tricks and methods that are described below to organize the illumination of absolutely any part of the car.


What we need to work:

• The LED strips
• Wire (four-core)
• LED strip controller with remote control
• Silicone glue or silicone gun
• Corrugated thin tube
• Soldering iron, solder, rosin

More about materials and tools

LED strips are being sold more and more lately. Naturally, the cost of an LED strip can be of great importance to you, but we strongly do not recommend that you buy cheap LED strips, as they not only often fail and burn out, but also do not give the glow intensity that is needed for high-quality car lighting. . In the event that you still have not decided on the color of the future backlight, we advise you to buy an RGB tape that will give you the ability to switch the colors of the LED backlight when you want to change the color. That's what you need a controller with a remote control for.

There are no special requirements for the wire, since they all perform the same task, and the wire itself will most likely be hidden either under the upholstery of the cabin if you are lighting doors or legs, or it will be hidden and insulated in a corrugated pipe if you you will illuminate the bottom of the car, number plate or its disks. In this case, you will protect your electronics from water ingress and corrosion at the soldering points and in those places where the factory braid of the wire could be damaged.

In addition, you may need connectors. These can be ordinary "crocodiles" for test connection of the backlight and permanent connectors that are twisted with a screwdriver and provide reliable contact throughout the system. They are needed not only for convenience when connecting the backlight, but also when you need to replace some part of the wiring in case of damage, or part of the LED strip for repair. If you use connectors, you won't have to completely rewire the backlight, but you can just replace the damaged section of the circuit.

Any work to improve the car should begin with a project. Naturally, at this stage we need to decide where we will install the backlight and we can say exactly how much wires, LED strip and connectors we need for this. We make a rough plan for the location of objects inside your car and mark the places where we will conduct the wiring. This is quite simple, since most of the wiring can be hidden either under the interior trim, or brought under the bottom of the car. However, in this case, you should definitely purchase and use a corrugated tube to insulate the wire. Let's look at the connection diagram for the backlight for the car interior and use it as an example to understand the process.

Now it's worth inspecting your car in those places where you will mount the LED strip itself. The ideal option for LED backlighting is the case when the light source is not visible and only the bright backlight of the car is visible. What's more, if you install the backlight in a hard-to-reach place, there is less chance that the tape will be damaged while driving or transporting people.
Accurate measurements and cutting of LED strip


In the event that you have not yet armed yourself with a tape measure and have not measured the exact length of those objects to which the LED strip will be attached, it's time to do it. After that, we take the tape in our hands and cut it, but we do it very carefully. The fact is that the LED strip can not be cut anywhere. There are special places for this, located every 3 LEDs. And remember that it is better to make the tape a little shorter than necessary, because if the tape is not fixed evenly, but with sagging, the backlight intensity will be uneven, and this should not be allowed.

Soldering and Testing

We arm ourselves with a soldering iron and solder the ends of the four-wire wire to the places where the LED strip is cut. Try to observe the color of the wires at all connection points, so that it is easier for you to navigate when repairing or when errors are found. We recommend that you, before isolating the place of soldering, check the glow as shown in the figure.
If everything is in order, you can repeat this operation for the remaining segments of the LED strip. Prepare the required number of connectors in order to easily connect the resulting LED strips already at the installation site and also observe the color of the wires.

If you are sure that the segments of the LED strip work as they should and you have not made a mistake anywhere, it's time to pick up a regular silicone glue or a gun that melts the silicone and fill the solder points with it. This will not only protect the LED strip from moisture ingress or accidental contact closure at the soldering points, but also help you seal the junction.
This is quite enough for a secure fixation, so the use of electrical tape can be abandoned.

Sticking LED strip

Everything is ready to install and connect the lighting in the interior of your car. To the surface you have chosen. You can either use a few drops of silicone adhesive or attach the tape with plastic ties - it doesn't really matter. Both options are quite reliable and durable.

If you cannot glue the backlight, as is often the case when installing the backlight on disks, you should use a hinged frame made of a thin profile, on which we will place the tape using plastic ties, but more on that later.

We connect the backlight through the connectors

Accurately observing the color of the wires and connecting the wiring according to our plan, you should pay attention to how you will hide the wires. If you have the opportunity to put them under the interior trim, try to do it as discreetly as possible so that the wire does not bulge. And in the event that you start wiring under the bottom of the car, first put insulating corrugated tubes on the wires, the ends of which should either also be filled with silicone or wrapped with electrical tape. It is best to hide the connectors in the same place where the LED strip itself is located, because in this case you will have access to them at any time.


After all the backlight elements of your car are connected and you hide the wiring, we connect the wires according to the diagram with the controller and you can proceed to powering the backlight.

Power supply for car lighting

You can power up the backlight in different ways. Someone uses a door panel for this, and in this case, the backlight will not only be a decorative element, but also a reminder that the door is not closed, because it will only light up when the doors are opened. However, this method is not suitable for cases of backlighting disks and the bottom of the car, because there the backlight should always be on when we want it.

Which feeding method to choose

The easiest option for connecting power to a car is the cigarette lighter. It just gives out 12 V, so this power is quite enough for us to connect the entire backlight of our car. To do this, you can simply remake the mobile phone charger and connect the wires to the circuit to the stabilizer, which lowers the voltage to 4 V. To do this, just disassemble the mobile phone charger, which works from the cigarette lighter and solder one wire to the "ground", and the second - in front of the stabilizer. This will be enough to ensure the operation of the backlight, and if necessary, the charger is simply pulled out of the cigarette lighter.


However, the most correct option would still be to connect the backlight power to the battery in turn of the fuses. In addition, this option will allow you not to violate the integrity of the car's factory wiring, which is extremely important.

Checking and testing

We take the remote control and turn on the backlight. If you did everything right, you can enjoy the ability to change the color modes and even the shades of the glow, and you can even set up programs for smooth overflows and changing the colors of the glow.

Here's what you should end up with if you do everything right:

Features of installing the backlight on the disks and on the bottom of the car

Please note that car lighting is a system that must be constantly connected to a power source, otherwise it will not work. If you want to highlight the underbody or rims of the car, the basic principles of operation do not change, but an additional step is added.

If you do the highlighting of the disks, the wheel will definitely need to be removed, and the disks themselves should be cleaned of dirt and rust. After that, it will be necessary to assemble a structure of the required diameter from an aluminum profile in order to place a backlight on it. This design is tightly fixed on the fixed part and connected to the wires using a connector, which in this case will also need to be either isolated or taken out into the car interior.

Please note that the wires and the tape itself must be securely glued or attracted to the structure attached to the car disk.
In the case of backlighting the bottom of the car, everything is somewhat simpler, but it may also happen that there is simply nowhere to fix the LED strip. In this case, we can also use a small metal profile that does not need to be screwed to the car body from the inside and already glue the LED strip on it. The only difficulty in this process is that the LED strip for disks and for the bottom of the car must be chosen either sealed or sealed with silicone or other transparent materials, otherwise it will simply burn out if moisture gets in.

Assembly and the first exit on the illuminated car.

If you have illuminated the wheels, put the wheels back in place and make sure that the wires do not interfere with the rotation of the wheel, and during rotation, the LED strip remains stationary. In case you worked in the salon and did the illumination of the legs or car doors, tuck the wires and put the remote control in a convenient place for you. Check again if the backlight is working and you can prepare for the first trip to the city.

Before driving for the first time in a car with a new interior light, many experienced drivers advise sitting in the car for a few minutes with the light on to allow your eyes to adjust. At first, the backlight can distract from driving, but over time you will get used to it and you will only enjoy the bright colors in the cabin or on the disks of your car!

Interior tuning of the car is very popular. And this is understandable, because any driver wants his car to impress not only pedestrians and other drivers, but also those who ride with him in the same cabin. And sometimes, you just want to please yourself with individual illumination of the car interior.

Installing the backlight in the car, with your own hands - the procedure is not complicated. To do this, you need to purchase high-quality material and prepare tools, as well as think in advance what exactly you want to emphasize with the help of light.

How and in what places is LED lighting most often installed? How does additional LED lighting affect, from an aesthetic and functional point of view? You will receive answers to all these questions in this article.

Before starting work, you need to choose a place to place the backlight for the cabin, its type, and also take care of the activation mechanism. For example, appliances and/or a door opening mechanism can be controlled by a remote control. The best option is a combination of devices.

Today the market offers us two upgrade options:

1. Purchase of LED strip.
2. Installation of neon lamps.

In the first car interior lighting there is a clear advantage. This is the ease of mounting the tape. For installation, you do not need to purchase additional mounting hardware. The LED strip that comes with the kit is simply glued on double-sided tape. The lamp of standard sizes can be powered by the cigarette lighter and illuminate other small parts of the cabin.

The positive properties of diodes include shock / strength and high tightness, as well as long-term operation in comparison with other interior lighting devices. It is important that the LED backlight of the car turns on instantly. This allows you to create different lighting effects.

You can also make neon lighting for the car interior on your own. It will be a bright light, with the help of which a large space is illuminated. Unfortunately, neon-based lamps are technically complex devices, and besides, they are very capricious during their operation. Neon lighting often burns out when constantly turned on / off, and is highly fragile.

Do-it-yourself installation of neon lighting in the car interior

Practice shows that the installation of neon car interior lighting is best to start from the floor. We prepare nylon clamps, an aluminum corner, neon lamps and self-tapping screws.

We cut off the connectors for the cigarette lighter, we clean the ends. We prepare the corner, adjusting it to the size of the lamps, using pre-prepared clamps. We mount it under the torpedo of the cabin. The driver's footwell is now highlighted.

Thus, we install additional lighting anywhere in the car interior. We hide the connecting wires under the rugs, directing to the dashboard from the driver's seat.

Wiring joints are insulated. The kit is connected to the door opening sensor and/or interior lighting switch. As a power source, you can use the battery, after removing the wipers.

After finishing work, the wipers are installed back in their place. Now, before opening the doors of the car, its passengers are in for a pleasant surprise - a pleasant neon illumination.

How to properly mount the LED strip for the ice illumination of the car interior?

The arrangement of a car with LED strip is carried out according to the standard scheme. First of all, you need to purchase a set of wires, heat shrink tubing, and tape.

It, like individual diodes, is purchased in the automotive markets and / or in specialized automotive stores. You should not save on the quality and length of the tape, experts advise stocking up on good LEDs. It is better to buy more diode tape than to realize at the last moment that you do not have enough of it.

In addition to interior design, diode tape is actively used when highlighting the wheels of cars.

Step-by-step instruction for diode connection of car interior lighting

The arrangement of the backlight in the car, with your own hands, should begin with the instrument panel of the vehicle. To do this, standard equipment is removed: devices, panel lighting and diodes are installed. The installation process is very simple, since the diodes have bases similar to factory equipment.

Then you need to determine the installation locations. Many people prefer to mount diodes around the entire perimeter of the ceiling, parallel to the car body pillars. Summer is laid gradually, and the remains can be cut off.

The cut points are clearly visible: they are marked with special membranes. After the procedure, do not forget to clean the ends of the cut and solder them together. We close the joints with bushings and warm them up with a hairdryer. In this case, it is better not to use an industrial hair dryer, since there is a high risk of overheating, an ordinary household appliance is an alternative.

Switching on is carried out similarly to the scheme of neon lamps. It is necessary at this moment to be especially careful and not to confuse the places of polarity, which are indicated on the tapes at the cut points.

In fact, this is where the workflow ends. There is nothing complicated. Only the installation must be carried out consistently and scrupulously treat small elements when they are connected.

An important aspect of the work is the combination of the aesthetics of the backlight and its functionality, which will be discussed below.

Aesthetic and functional components of lighting in the car

Illumination of the vehicle interior, which is carried out on its own, simultaneously solves a number of problems:

• a unique design of the interior of the car is created;
• the car stands out against the background of standard interior equipment with originality and functionality.

Determining the functionality of the backlight in the car is often somewhat more difficult. For many cars, the installation of additional lighting (tuning) is an opportunity to create comfortable conditions for passengers and the driver himself at night, which include:

1. Installing the backlight in the car with your own hands can greatly simplify the search for items in the car, whether it be gloves, water, a mobile phone, etc .;
2. Getting into the car turns into a kind of ritual, and not a standard, ordinary action. A useful and pleasant addition is turning off the light after closing the car door, a smooth decrease in the brightness of the standard lamp;
3. The ability to easily and simply find objects on the floor in the cabin;
4. Speaking about the illumination of the handles, this is their quick search and simplification of disembarkation and landing in the car.

Separately, it is worth mentioning that the interior lighting can be synchronized with a subwoofer installed in the car. This gives many interesting moments, in particular, the pulsation of light to the beat of the music, the change in the color of the backlight, etc.

We can talk about useful functions for a long time, but we will focus on the above combinations.

The design aspect of lighting in the car interior

It is important to choose niches for car interior lighting and decide how to highlight them. You can place and make a backlight in the car interior in any place that you like. But do not forget about the practical side of the issue. The most successful is the installation of lighting in the glove compartment, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe legs and in the rear of the car, where passengers are accommodated.

Interestingly, rear seat lighting is the most productive. This applies to accessories and individual parts, including door handles. Car interior lighting as a decor will look effective on air duct grilles and / or around the entire perimeter of doors. You can combine directional light, or its individual elements, using a cigarette lighter or other electrical on-board network for this.

You can limit yourself to a one-time inclusion and / or connect on an ongoing basis after dark.
There are no clear recommendations on the use of a particular color scheme. Nevertheless, the lighting in the car interior should be “polite”, that is, not to irritate passengers, not to hit in the eyes, etc.

The main thing is that the chosen color does not distract the driver from driving, and corresponds to the general concept of the car interior.

What tools and materials are needed for additional interior lighting?

Using one or another version of the car interior lighting, you will need the most ordinary tools and consumables. Including:

1. Scissors;
2. soldering iron;
3. Pliers.

From consumables:

1. Solder;
2. Rosin;
3. Tips under the "screw";
4. Wires of the required length;
5. Locking button or toggle switch.

In operation, the individual backlight components must be interconnected using a multi-core cable. In this case, the useful area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe cores should be 1 2 mm. Those places where soldering fell, as well as connecting contacts, must be covered with insulating material. In the process of checking and monitoring the correct installation of the car interior lighting with your own hands, you must use a multimeter.

What you need to know about the interior lighting of a car with cold neon?

To give individuality to your car and distinguish it from the general flow of transport, you can use cold neon, which looks original and is very effective. Today, neon lighting is one of the most common ways to tune the interior. This option has the following advantages:

• minimum energy consumption. Neon is considered a practical option due to its long life. Transparent material does not lose its original characteristics and does not fade. With its strength, it easily bends, cuts well when composing different light combinations;
• neon thread can be mounted in different parts of the car: on the pedals, dashboard, door handles and / or glove box;
• cold neon does not distract the driver from controlling the traffic situation and is considered a safe material for our eyesight;
• the light of flexible cold neon is distributed, evenly saturating the interior, which is very convenient in the dark and at night;
• during its operation, it is not gentle to turn on additional lighting devices, including standard equipment.

Do-it-yourself car interior lighting using cold neon is not only beautiful, but also practical. Such tuning allows you to protect you and passengers, and represents a huge field for imagination.
Making the backlight in the car interior with your own hands, you can get a solid light, or in different colors, using different patterns, colors and combining their number. Arrangement with neon material is a minimum of costs and minor intervention in the electrical system of the car, which does not affect the stable operation of other (regular) vehicle systems.

Car interior lighting - a new option

We are talking about laser illumination, which we have appeared relatively recently, gradually winning the hearts of motorists and chip / tuning masters. For example, when you open a door, after installing a laser illumination in its lower part, on the ground, in front of the door, the logo you have chosen is formed. Here's how it looks in the photo.

It’s not so difficult to make footlights in the car interior, besides, it will also look quite attractive. As an example, let's take a story that I personally witnessed.

One evening, an old car drove up to the stop, but almost no one paid attention to it. But that was until the moment when the driver opened the doors, after which bright lights flashed in the cabin, which aroused the interest of many.

Plus, the interior of the car looked more attractive. That is, thanks to the light fires, the nondescript old upholstery of the car got a chic look, which, of course, could not but attract the eyes of others.

LED lighting can transform any car, including the oldest, which is the main advantage of this innovation.

How the backlight works

The LED backlight can be customized according to your preferences. For example, you can make it turn on simultaneously with standard lighting when opening doors, or you can control it using an electronic unit.

You can also combine the two options. That is, we make the backlighting of the lower part of the cabin neon and connect it to the door opening sensor, and we make the rest of the backlight LED, but we connect it through the block-switch.

Varieties of backlight

Illumination for the car interior can be:

1).LED. The main advantage of this option is the ease of installation. In this case, the emitters do not require a fixing device. Individual LEDs are miniature, and therefore they can be installed even in sockets for standard lamps. The LED strip is impact resistant and sealed.

2).neon. The light from neon lights is bright and saturated. The backlight is difficult to install, while the lamps in the installation are quite capricious. They are afraid of mechanical damage.

Do-it-yourself car interior lighting

Under the feet of the driver and passenger, the lighting can be made neon, and the ceiling can be illuminated with LED lamps.

Installing neon lights . First of all, it is necessary to install special emitters, for which you will need:

1. Kapron clamps;
2. aluminum corner;
3. Neon emitters;
4. self-tapping screws;

We saw off a corner according to the size of the emitter and light it with self-tapping screws under the torpedo. The light should fall down right under your feet. After that, we fix the emitter with clamps to the corner.

We do the same with passenger seats. On the rear seats, we fasten the edge up, which will protect the emitter from mechanical damage.

We carefully lay all the wires under the floor and pull it to the dashboard from the driver's side. If necessary, the wires at the connection points can be extended and insulated.

When connecting, the wires should be connected to the door opening sensor and the interior lighting switch so that when the door is opened and the lighting is turned on, our additional lighting lights up.

LED backlight installation .Installation of LED lighting for legs is carried out according to the standard scheme, which is almost the same for all cars.

But for work we need;

1. Heat-shrink tubing;
2. Wires (section 4x0.5 mm);
3. LED strip and single diodes (you can take a ready-made tape like SMD 5050, but it costs more, so you can buy RGB tape sold by the meter);

You can install the backlight on the instrument panel, in places for salon lamps, with regular lighting elements. All this can be replaced by LEDs. Single LEDs have the same base as standard lamps, and therefore, if necessary, they can be easily replaced.

Next, we determine the location of the backlight. Traditionally, it is installed in the legs and around the perimeter of the roof along the pillars. First you need to measure the required length of the tape, after which we cut it to the desired size. In this case, the mode is only in places with contacts for soldering.

The wire must be measured in such a way that it is enough to the ignition switch, but it is also recommended to provide for some margin.

We cut off, clean the ends and solder to the tape, after which the heat shrink tube is stretched and, using a household hair dryer or a lighter, we warm it up until it shrinks. In exactly the same way, we should do with other segments of the tape.

Connection options:

• connect via RGB block container;
• connection in the same way as neon lamps.

Who doesn't want their car to look something special? This can be achieved in many ways, one of them is the installation of lighting in the car. Just imagine - you open the car door, and the interior is flooded with light, like the cabin of an interplanetary ship! Making interior tuning with your own hands is not as difficult as it seems.

Decorative car interior lighting

Immediately you need to decide what kind of lighting in the car will be the most attractive and what colors are suitable. There are two options: neon bulbs and LED strip.

LEDs on a flexible strip are extremely easy to install, small size allows you to use them anywhere, they are sealed, shockproof and durable, but interior lighting is minimal.

Neon bulbs are difficult to install, fussy with the intensity of switching on and off, and very susceptible to damage. But the neon glow is able to illuminate half of the car interior.

The ideal option for interior lighting: a combination of LEDs and neon. You can tune the dashboard with LEDs, and the floor with neon tubes. If desired, you can configure the modes of operation of the LEDs.

Neon lights for cars

Do-it-yourself neon footwell lighting in a car is easy to install, but it looks unusual. For this you will need:

• set of clamps for fasteners;
• aluminum corners;
• self-tapping screws;
• neon lamps.

Step by step instruction:

1. It is necessary to cut off the cigarette lighter connector from the lamps and clean the ends.
2. Screw a piece of the corner along the length of the lamp under the dashboard and attach the lamp to it with clamps.
3. Repeat wherever neon lights are planned on the car.

Attention! Near the rear seats, it is better to fasten the corner up with an edge, in this case the lamp will be better protected from damage. If everything is done carefully, then only the light will be visible, but not its source.

As a power source, the interior lighting switch button, the door opening/closing sensor and the battery are used.

Advice: One of the wires can be connected to the throttle position sensor. Then, after flashing the engine ECU, the device will remind you that the backlight is installed in the car. This will protect neon lamps from power surges during chip tuning.

Do-it-yourself neon interior lighting! Opening the car door, you can see the illuminated floor.

Car interior decoration with LEDs

To work with LEDs, you need to prepare:

• LED strip;
• wires;
• heat shrink tubing;
• single LEDs.

Advice: It is better to buy a factory model, because the one sold by the meter will have to be finalized and connected via an RGB controller.

Step by step instructions:

Illumination of interior handles is more difficult, from the tools you will need a screwdriver and a drill:

1. First, the trim and door handles are removed from the doors.
2. In those places where the bulbs will be, you need to drill holes.
3. Insert the LEDs into the holes.
4. Bring power to them from power windows.

LED lighting in the car interior is ready! You can get into the car and check the intensity of the glow and the performance of the interior lighting of the car.

This is how you can do tuning the interior of your car without special skills and with your own hands. As a result, even an old shabby car will look like a solid foreign car from the inside.