Well, I decided I would buy some LED's for the interior lights and exterior non-crucial lights (license plate, clearance lights).



I also replaced all of the door bulbs. They are really nice, heck of a lot brighter than stock. Only gripe I have is they are a little harsh on the eyes because they are white and not a easier on the eyes yellow. The pictures make them look really blue, they are a bright white, definately not the color you see in the pics, more of a crisp white. (during the day they look a little blue though)



Both with LED's


Door light

 

Here are some pics of the clearance lights. I really like them better when they are amber colored. I guess I'm a little camera happy today, but I'm sure they will be useful for someone thinking about changing to LED's. The clearance lights flash with the keyless entry, now they have a really nice ON/OFF cycle, no dimming as the bulb turns off and on.

Before


After


Comparison

 

Well I'm finished with my LED install for the interior! I also added footwell lights up front drivers and passenger side(picture from the website below) and custom wired them to the drivers side footwell light.

Updated 05 Tundra DC Bulb List:

The festoon bulb in the 05 Tundra DC is superbrightleds.com part# "4410 LED Festoon bulb" 44x10mm festoon bulb.


All the other map, door panel, license plate, and clearence lights are superbrightleds.com part# "WLED 5-LED Wide Angle LED bulb" with 194/168 base.


Here is what I used for the footwell lights, I just cut off the connector and added my own connectors to my harness. superbrightleds.com part# "1156-PCB-W24"

 

NICE! did you make the boards? or pre-made plug ins?

edit: nm, your last post wasn't there when I looked

 

Finally pics of the LED footwell LED's. They really make the front seem brighter because you don't have deep black holes where your feet are

I just double side taped and zip tied them behind the dash. I made my own harness that had a bulb base that interfaces with the stock mini bulb holder in the drivers side footwell. Everything has quick disconnects so if one of the LED arrays fails, I can easily replace it with another LED array or any other bulb, all I have to do is put a quick disconnect on the new fixture. (Don't have to remove all the wiring to replace one component.)

Passenger side:




Drivers side:

 

Yea, I guess I posted that fast. Copied it from a post I had on tundrasolutions.com. Thought I'd share with yotatech

I considered making my own boards, but after pricing everything out and the time involved, the pre-made ones turned out to be cheaper. I enjoyed making the harness though, all my wiring is nice and clean. It has vinyl sheathing (not split loom or spiral wrap, this is vinyl tubing, patience to get the wire through, lol) and quick disconnects. If anyone wants to see the harness, I might be able to take pictures in a week or two. Need to take apart the dash anyways to tidy up my navigation wiring and to add a ground loop isolator.

EDIT: I should also note that normally these lights come on with the dome lights, but for the pictures I turned the dome lights off to show how bright the footwells are now. With all the lights on it's bright

The Tundra has a stock footwell light on the drivers side only, its a joke, the bulb is smaller than a pencil eraser.

 

What did you use for the quick disconnects? I am slowly re-wiring much of the stuff in my truck and I definitely need more interior light and this looks like the way to go...

 

looks good

 

They are some disconnects I bought from www.waytekwire.com. I can sell you a couple if you would like, waytek makes you buy like 250 at a time, lol. I bought them anyways because people on the forums buy them sometimes, plus I use them on anything I install in the truck so it can be removed easily for replacement.

They look like this, I will get a pic of the other side if you want. I can also crimp pigtails on the connectors if you want because I have the special crimp tool, I can also solder them if wanted:

 

Which ones are they on Waytek (wow, they have a bunch.. I can't seem to find those)? I may buy 250 of them because I've always got people modding stuff here at my house and I can probably sell some to them. If they're more than I want to spend for that many I may buy some of yours. Do you have a part number or which section would I find them in on the site? Thanks man!

 

on the bottom left you will see that scroll box

Connectors:multi pin:Click on "Mate-N-Lok"

They have weather proof seals, pins (male & female)and the actual housings (male & female) I didn't buy and of the seals, they are not required when wiring inside the cab


The tool for crimping is item# 419 (Tools:crimpers:3rd page, last item, blue handle) These are well worth the money, make it SOOOO easy to crimp the small pins.

I also bought the vinyl tubing there, relays for my headlight harness, wire, fuse holders, etc. Top notch quality and fast shipping. Yea, you have to buy in bulk, but I have sold a lot of stuff I didn't need on forums like YT. Still a lot cheaper than lets say, summit racing. They have the EXACT same connector "set" which includes the pins & connectors, and they charge almost $10.

 

Cool.. Thanks man. I'm doing a lot of electrical mods and stuff these days inside and out so I will probably get a few types of connectors and stuff. Thanks a ton for all the info

 

no problem