my trunk light project (pics)

i know i cant be the only one that is aggravated by the terrible trunk light in every mustang from 94-04. so i though i would do something to fix it.

first a little back story. i work for a company called TouchTunes, we manufacture and distribute touch screen jukeboxes. im sure all of you have see at least 1 of them. i work in the tech support call center. in our newer juke's there is a lit up dome that says TouchTunes and the bottom of the juke has a little bilboard thing that says TouchTunes. these are lit up by stick-on LED strips. i though it would be perfect to light up my trunk (they are after all 12v strips) so i started my project. i went to the warehouse manager and asked for them and he handed them to me. they arent expensive and we charge our operators $7 per led strip.

first, they come in set of 5. and there are 24 leds per strip. im only using 1 but i knew i was gong to ruin some because my soldering skills suck
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i then reamed out the holes where i was going to solder with a push pin and soldered some really crappy 20awg speaker wire to the connector. it sucks as speaker wire, but works perfect for this

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found the spot i was going to mount it, peeled off the sticky back and put it there

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all i did was wire to the were my trunk light bulb is supposed to be and i was done. the finished pic is not very good. it actually lights up the entire trunk much better than what the picture shows.


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can you get me some strips? :shrug:

if not, where else can i get them?

i dont know how many of these things i can get or, if i can how they would charge. i know it wasnt an issue for me to get the few that i got, but if i keep going back and asking for more, i dont know how i can pull that off. i will see though.


mransr said:
there's a light it the trunk?

I never noticed...and I don't know that I ever need one either...but taht's cool technology there

lol, yep leds are wicked cool new tech. but there is one and its integrated into the third brake light on the lid. so when you open it you cant see anything in the trunk. which sucks when you go auto x-ing on your way home from the store and everything comes out out the bags and you have to go feeling around for it at night.