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Improved Trunk lighting - Is there demand?
- Thread starter pete8314
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That's good to know; I'd like to see the photo's too.
By way of an update, the first production candidate should be with me by early next week. The focus so far has been on the tooling (i.e. the injection molding, lens assembly and wiring), so the version I get should be good from a fit and finish point of view, but the LED bulb will likely need to go through another couple of iterations, as there's a few options there. Making good progress though.
Cyclone
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Hopefully once you get this tooling and production run going, you will easily be able to provide single-lights for the frunk. I believe the Tesla's light puddles are interchangeable between the trunk, frunk, and doors.
Cyclone
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They are
Yay! I have a strip for the frunk, but haven't installed it yet. Loving the strips I put in under the parcel shelf, so the trunk is covered for me. The frunk becomes the challenge of where to put it and thus, simply swapping out the existing light may be a good solution.
BoldSharpe
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I'd be interested in the additional lights for the trunk, pete8314 (I just have the light on the liftgate). Looking forward to updates and photos when you get the prototype.
Do you have any preliminary thoughts on what'll take to install?
Do you have any preliminary thoughts on what'll take to install?
Ideally almost no effort at all. The replacement lens will be a complete replacement for what the car ships with (lens, power clip and LED bulb), so it'll just be a question of popping the old lens assembly out (easy to do with a finger nail in the trunk), unclipping the power supply from it(there's a small release clip), and then just clipping on the new one and pushing it back into the opening. Very, very easy, no more than a minute per bulb, no tools, splicing or any other modification needed.
Here's where they are (indicated by masking tape. They are symmetrical, so there's one on the opposite side in the same location. The wires are taped to the harness closer to the shock tower on each side. You have to detach the carpet to get at them.
childcarepro
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Interested
I'm definitely interested in a plug-and-play solution too.
Bought some accessories from your site now.
I'm definitely interested in a plug-and-play solution too.
Bought some accessories from your site now.
gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
Same here, Pete. Plug n' Play is perfect me as I'm not very handy with such installs
The days of juggling with my iPhone and its flashlight while accessing stuff in the trunk in the dark are hopefully over soon.
mahulkp
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BoldSharpe
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The production candidate (for tooling) came out well, it passed! A few photos below, but essentially the form-factor and composition is identical.
The brightness increase registered at a little under 3x as can be seen below (using a fairly basic IOS app), however, the real-life observation lacked the 'wow, that's bright' factor. This was using 2x 5630 SMD LEDs, so the next samples will vary the LED type, and quantity. It'll be a couple of weeks before the next samples get here, but we're getting close.
The brightness increase registered at a little under 3x as can be seen below (using a fairly basic IOS app), however, the real-life observation lacked the 'wow, that's bright' factor. This was using 2x 5630 SMD LEDs, so the next samples will vary the LED type, and quantity. It'll be a couple of weeks before the next samples get here, but we're getting close.
Cyclone
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Thank you Pete. Without the work you are doing, you wouldn't get such quality products as you have done. Totally worth it!
I'm interested in a handful, especially if you can get them brighter. I'll have to go take a look, there's a lot of them scattered all around! (Some I've already replaced with strips though)
I'd really like to figure out how to enable the "Ambient lighting" mode so I could add those. The wiring is clearly there.
I'd really like to figure out how to enable the "Ambient lighting" mode so I could add those. The wiring is clearly there.
Thanks. Truth is I (mostly) enjoy it, it's a interesting diversion from my (IT) day job. This whole thing started on TMC over two years ago, so it's mostly the people on here that helped this all happen. I had the original goal of eventually paying for a set of 21" rims....I never did get those (went for the T-Sportline's instead), but the FobPockets allow me to invest in fun side projects like this one.
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We might end up with a couple of versions (bright and ultra-bright, or something like that); the latter for the frunk and truck, and the former for some of the internal lights where you really don't want anything that's too bright, on the basis it's meant to be ambient. We'll see how the next batch works out.
Do you know if these can be installed on cars without the premium interior package?
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