side badge lighting

[LightSmith88]

HAHA! You don't have to be old to love the Doors! Wait...I'm 45....is that old?? Crap, I guess it is. The markers are wired and light up very nicely. I did that by using a wiring harness that came with one of the Chinese LED versions, which piggybacks into the existing wiring with connectors for the headlight and turn signal. I installed those first, but thought that they looked kind of cheap and a little too futuristic. I cut a 3-wire 3/4" round LED into the badge behind this reflector. The dim setting comes on with my headlights, and the bright setting with the turn signals. It looks great, but I have no idea how to post a video on here to show it.

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[LightSmith88]

One thing that no one else on here mentioned was water. I drilled two small holes in the backs of the lenses near the bottom so that water (which will get into these things) can drain out. Keep in mind that the two-sided foam tape on the back is going up against the raised grooves of the factory emblem, so water will find a way into the large hole that they come with. I just had visions of these things, half-full of water, sloshing around at every stoplight, HAHA. Not the effect I would go for. If someone DID mention it and I missed it, I apologize.