Adding interior footwell lighting

[tom4bren]

I did search around here but didn't find an answer... I think what I am looking to do is not possible, or at least easily possible. The lights I am adding will just be wired to switched power..probably marker lights or something I can find in the dash, just not sure what wire and where to tap into aside from piggy backing on the dash fuse panel.
The door switch ground wire that triggers the dome light would turn these additional lights on but I would not be able to turn them on outside of that, without opening the door. Oh well.

It's entirely doable ... & not really all that difficult.

Your preferred solution (comes on when you open the doors & switchable):

Don't try to tap into wiring down behind the kick panel ... even though that may seem easiest now. Snake a wire pair (speaker wire or lamp cord) from the dome light all the way to under the dash. Connect the wires to the two terminals for the bulb in the dome light. Either solder the wires to the bulb connectors or get some alligator clips from Radio Shack to make the connection. The other end of the wires connect to your new floor board LEDs. LEDs come on when the doors open and also turn on manually when you tap the dome light. The only really pain in the butt part will be snaking the wire under the headliner. You'll need to make your connection at the dome light bulb in order for the tap on feature to work since the circuit for that is up in the fixture.

My preferred solution (operates with guage cluster lights):

Use your LEDs that you plan on installing as a test light. Ground the negative lead from the lights and touch the positive lead to one of the pins on the back of the dimmer switch for the guage cluster. There should be 3 pins on the back. Repeat till you find the right pin to make the connection to (don't worry, you won't damage your light by touching the wrong pin). Remember to have the running lights turned on as you are doing this & have the dimmer at max brightness. Next, dim that sucker & see what happens. If all is Hunky Dorey, then make your connections permanent and mount the light. Yer done.

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you could just use these

I like the way your mind works.