I have an 85D w/o premium lighting
I've installed the new lights in:
Trunk (all 3)
Frunk (1)
Front door puddles (1 ea)
Front footwells (1 ea)
8 total lights to date.
I plan to do the rear footwells (under the front seats)
Biggest pay off by far is the trunk. HUGE, HUGE, difference. The two lights in the carpet are very easy to replace. The trunk door light is probably the hardest to get out of the 8 I've replaced so far. I basically had to break the old light to get it out (so what). Take your time and replace all of these.
The frunk was WAY easy for me. I pulled it out of the carpet almost by hand. It is much brighter then the old one but I also don't use the frunk much.
I found the front doors puddles pretty easy to replace. Other than laying on the ground and working up, the plastic under the doors is much more flexible then the trunk door, so they were fairly easy to replace.
The front footwell lights actually were easier then I thought they were going to be. Maybe it was because they were the 7th and 8th light I replaced, but they came out pretty easy. Plus, the plastic they are inserted into is pretty flexible and to be honest, if you scratch the plastic around the lights a little bit, who cars because you'll never see it.
I plan to do the rear seat footwells but need to wait for the brackets. Again, this will be a big difference for me since I don't have the lights in the rear footwells now (although I don't have that many passengers in the back).
I don't have the rear cutouts on the doors for the rear door puddles. I don't know if I'll bother or not. I may replace the glove box light but I don't use the glove box much either...
Overall, as everyone is saying, Pete's lights are awesome. I would recommend the 4 lights for the trunk and frunk for EVERYONE. The 4 lights in the front (front doors and front footwells) are MUCH brighter than the OEM. I expect big things for the rear footwells when I install them.
- C
I'd chose the puddle lights myself, all the other places can be solved easily with DIY, those ones are a bit harder.