Foot Light Led Clips

[namorbrowneyes]

Hello everyone! I have a question regarding the led foot lights. I have the 2015 Genesis Sedan and I am trying to get these lights out, do the clips just hold them in? Is there a manual or anything, anywhere, that shows me how to get these out without damaging anything?

My intention is to splice off the wiring and add some led strips for more light. Thank you for the help guys..

 

[Seejay]

Hello everyone! I have a question regarding the led foot lights. I have the 2015 Genesis Sedan and I am trying to get these lights out, do the clips just hold them in? Is there a manual or anything, anywhere, that shows me how to get these out without damaging anything?

My intention is to splice off the wiring and add some led strips for more light. Thank you for the help guys..

AFAIK, there is no (free) manual available to the public. The Hyundai shop manual is only available electronically to techs, and I have not seen an unauthorized copy on the net. Some posters here have tried several mods that involve wiring etc., some pretty involved, but nothing with the foot well lighting.

 

[LarryJM]

I also found the floor lighting woefully lacking and I didn't even like the current lights only comming on when the car was put in park. So I installed dual mode floor lights in both front foot areas. I used one blue LED strip that is tied into the dimmable vehicle ckt tapped off the forward cubby light in the center console and a white LED strip that goes thru a button switch like are used in flashlights (available from e-bay) that is tapped into the 12V power outlets in the center console. This made running the wired to each front foot area super easy and gave me a source of both dimmable power and 12V power for potential future uses. I mounted the LED strips and the switch to a length of acrylic wallpaper corner protector available at any big box store using nylon extra heavy duty Upholstery thread and then mounted that to the lower crash pads on each side with 3M grey auto trim double sided tape. Below is a pic of the driver's side LED strip mounted to the crash pad and you can see the button switch on the right. This way I have blue floor lights at night with the option via the switch to turn on the white much brighter lights when needed. This system meets all my wants/needs and IMO is far, far superior in both functionality and performance over the OEM puny floor lights.

Larry

 

[namorbrowneyes]

Wow! That looks great Larry! I'm so jealous. What did you use to learn how to take the crash pad/paneling off? I'm going in blind.
That looks very professional, wow. Thanks for your input! You seem to know a lot about wiring! What type of led strips are those? I have 5630 smd's but those look like a better fit!

I also found the floor lighting woefully lacking and I didn't even like the current lights only comming on when the car was put in park. So I installed dual mode floor lights in both front foot areas. I used one blue LED strip that is tied into the dimmable vehicle ckt tapped off the forward cubby light in the center console and a white LED strip that goes thru a button switch like are used in flashlights (available from e-bay) that is tapped into the 12V power outlets in the center console. This made running the wired to each front foot area super easy and gave me a source of both dimmable power and 12V power for potential future uses. I mounted the LED strips and the switch to a length of acrylic wallpaper corner protector available at any big box store using nylon extra heavy duty Upholstery thread and then mounted that to the lower crash pads on each side with 3M grey auto trim double sided tape. Below is a pic of the driver's side LED strip mounted to the crash pad and you can see the button switch on the right. This way I have blue floor lights at night with the option via the switch to turn on the white much brighter lights when needed. This system meets all my wants/needs and IMO is far, far superior in both functionality and performance over the OEM puny floor lights.

Larry

 

[LarryJM]

1. I purchased a one week subscription from HYUNDAI service site and downloaded the Service and ETM manuals. I also bought a set of trim removal tools from either Amazon or ebay.

2. The LED strips are just those that are everywhere on AMAZON or e-bay that come on IIRC like a 10M plastic reel.

3. It's not so much about knowing a whole lot about wiring, but doing simple electrical things over 50+ years.

4. The use of the acrylic wallpaper corner protector and thread to mount the LED strips is just something I experimented around with in the last 5 to 8 years with and found it works best. The small flash light type button switch was just something I found on e-bay that looked interesting and I took a change and ordered like 10 of them.

Larry

 

[namorbrowneyes]

Way cool looks like I'm in for some fun. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it more than you know :]

 

[Seejay]

Had no idea you could subscribe for a week, download everything you need. If you don't mind telling us, how much did a week cost?

 

[LarryJM]

Had no idea you could subscribe for a week, download everything you need. If you don't mind telling us, how much did a week cost?

$20 and I'm somewhat computer challenged and for the ETV manual there was no option to download the pics and/or pages so I had to do a screenshot of each page then using a photo editing program size it and save it to file. This was a VERY, VERY slow and loooooong process and probably took me a good 12 to 14 hours to just do the entire ETV manual. However, I did download some sections of the 5.0 2015 and both the 5.0 and 3.8 2016 sections mainly as it pretained to lighting (DRLs, Headlights, Fogs, etc.).

The real "MEAT" is in those ETV manuals where all the various wiring harness, connector pin outs and useable schematic diagrams are.

Larry

 

[xiaphin]

Any pics at night with the LED strip on? Be good to see a comparison against stock output.

 

[LarryJM]

Any pics at night with the LED strip on? Be good to see a comparison against stock output.

Stock Floor Lights:

White LED Strip:

Blue LED Strip (100% brightness):

Larry

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[Mladen5375]

Larry if you don't mind sharing but how did you take the bottom off? I'm doing a project similar to yours and I'd like to tap into those foot-well LED lights

Thank You