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Recently, I begged one of our forum members (Leha-JZX) for a rain sensor kit at quite an unmodest price :(
Report on its installation up front, but while disassembling the lower part of the dashboard, I suddenly thought: Why don't I have footwell lighting?
I do not know what exactly the Japanese used on 81 body types, but in reality, I did not see any footwell lighting on them...
But who cares? I have hidden Toyota footwell lights from a 90 body and probably from a surfer or cruiser. The cruiser's has a box-schematic. This is lamp delay off... But, my car brand has its own standard one. And in the 90 body type, the footwell lighting turns on in the gap of the dashboard light switch...
Decided to do the same... Found dad-mom, found the socket for the dashboard light, took wires with me, also sockets (for each lamp) and brought it home...
Made a harness similar to the one from 90 body type. Used existing wires... Screwed in a pass-through (for the dashboard lighting) socket...
Improved the design by having the lamps hanging on the harness and attached to the lowest trim panels under the passenger's and driver's feet (on a 90, the driver's footwell light is tied with a wire that already exists inside the housing, to an air duct)
It’s inconvenient to remove. The passenger side trim panel cannot be detached at all... The lamp housing is screwed into it. You can’t unscrew it without disassembling the housing, and you can only dismantle it after unscrewing...
So I decided to make human-friendly sockets... So that when you take apart, detach the socket, remove the trim panel, it won't interfere as it does on 90 models—hanging under your hands...
This was implemented... All standard harnesses and wires remained intact and looked factory-made... Beauty!
Went to my garage, connected the harness in the gap of the dashboard lighting socket. Perfectly works.
Took out the dashboard trims, tried places for the lamps… Drilled holes for wires (so that everything looks like from the factory). Screwed on the passenger's lamp housing on standard screws and locked it down with a diffuser. Now it can't be removed... Oh well. The socket is there...
The driver’s side I fastened with wire inserted in the original housing… It’s removable.
All connected, screwed back into place… Voila!






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