i mate i did that on my vw golf i had the hid kit wired to mr interior lights so wen u unlock they came on the wen u get in they fade out. but they also work normally with normal switch, i had electrician do it in derby it does look good and i had no probs
Yes you could do it as sugested above.
Use the interior light power to switch a relay which in turn switched the lights on. BUT! If you did it this way then whenever you put your interior light on you lights would come on aswell
Use the interior light power to switch a relay which in turn switched the lights on. BUT! If you did it this way then whenever you put your interior light on you lights would come on aswell
Yes you could do it as sugested above.
Use the interior light power to switch a relay which in turn switched the lights on. BUT! If you did it this way then whenever you put your interior light on you lights would come on aswell
yep your right there but the golf mk4 has 3 interior lights on front and then 2 more in the back u only need to wire up to 1 of them from the front and then not use that 1 so it was okay for me lol
Yes you could do it as sugested above.
Use the interior light power to switch a relay which in turn switched the lights on. BUT! If you did it this way then whenever you put your interior light on you lights would come on aswell
putting a diode into the supply wire used would stop that happening
that's if it did indeed backflow when the interior light is manually turned on
bertrum
Guest
There's a how-to guide on Briskoda for Mk1 fabias... same as the mk4 ibiza!
http://briskoda.net/technical-guides/how-retro-fit-coming-home-lights/127568/
http://briskoda.net/technical-guides/how-retro-fit-coming-home-lights/127568/
Last edited by a moderator:
The thing with the interior light is that it is negative switched, providing you overcome that there should be no need for a diode IMO as long as you use a relay, no voltage from the interior light= no relay pulled on (contacts open circuit) so no way of volts flowing from headlamps to interior light.
EDIT.
Flapper is correct a diode will be needed for when you switch on the interior light manually. I'll shut up now...................
Can this be done with vag-com ??
Last edited:
mk2 leons have the coming home lights function auto turned off after 30 secs i think, and turned on if u left them on looked really cool when i owned one lol
Did it this morning
Had it as sidelights, but the buzzer comes on when you open the door, changed it to headlights now, but atm only the fronts come on - no tailights.
As per guide on bri-skoda:
http://briskoda.net/technical-guides...lights/127568/
Pretty easy, i used a probe to check which wire is the headlight. Can just play about it with it. i thought about maybe making the front fogs turn on but decided against it due to the chav factor lol
http://briskoda.net/technical-guides...lights/127568/
Pretty easy, i used a probe to check which wire is the headlight. Can just play about it with it. i thought about maybe making the front fogs turn on but decided against it due to the chav factor lol
No difference. The light has three wires going to it; a perminant live, and perminant earth and a switched earth.
When the light is set to come on when the door is open, the live feeds, passes through the bulb, and then earths through the circuit which has now been completed by the door open switch.
When you manually turn the light on, it completes the circuit between the perminant earth and live. In doing so it has no effect on the switched earth, the one which completes the circuit for the headlight relay.
However, the headlights will turn on whenever a door is opened, but to be honest i haven't found a bad thing about this yet.
Hope that all makes sense lol
When the light is set to come on when the door is open, the live feeds, passes through the bulb, and then earths through the circuit which has now been completed by the door open switch.
When you manually turn the light on, it completes the circuit between the perminant earth and live. In doing so it has no effect on the switched earth, the one which completes the circuit for the headlight relay.
However, the headlights will turn on whenever a door is opened, but to be honest i haven't found a bad thing about this yet.
Hope that all makes sense lol
Yep, that makes sense to me now, I haven't looked at the interior light wiring in debth other than the fact that interior lights are normally negative/earth swithed anyway.
I'm glad it has a seperate earth for the manual switch, I'm gonna do this mod now but have the front fogs rather than headlights. Might as well get some use out of them otherwise they will never get used.
I'm glad it has a seperate earth for the manual switch, I'm gonna do this mod now but have the front fogs rather than headlights. Might as well get some use out of them otherwise they will never get used.
Last edited:
Good good, only thing i'm still uncertain about is making the tailights come on too.
Can wire it up to sidelights but it means the buzzer will sound as soon as you open the door.....
Can wire it up to sidelights but it means the buzzer will sound as soon as you open the door.....
I notice that the mk5 astra makes the rear number plate light come on rather than the rear tail lights 
Depends what outputs are on the light switch, i think the no plates on the ibizas run off the sidelights. On the switch you have, left sidelights, right sidelights, dipped beam, main beam, front fogs and rear fogs iirc
Do your lights not come on when you open the door then?
Also it says when you lock the car, bit daft if the lights come on then..?
Also it says when you lock the car, bit daft if the lights come on then..?
Similar threads
Model Year 20/21
Cupra Formentor Electrical Issues
- Deleted member 144470
- Ibiza Mk4 (2002-2008)
