Apologies for a silly question, my OCD got better of me.

Mood lighting feature on my car does not seem to work with ether illuminated treadplate (door frame panel) or interior door handle lights.

Both illuminated treadplate and door handle are stuck on light blue color, while the rest of the lights I can adjust to various colors.

Is this normal or broken?

 

Normal (and unfortunate).

 

+1. After a very short time (or less) you'll never notice.

 

+1

 

I find the default blue color reminds me of an old Buick my Nana use to drive. LOL

I would also like changed the halogen interior lighting at the bottom of doors. Why use both LED and halogen and not just all LED???

 

Should be easy enough.

There was a thread here awhile back with a guy who switched his foot well lights to Blue LEDS to match the ambient and illuminated tread plate... that bulb size is T10 (also 194). I believe the bulbs at the bottom of the door are the same.

Or you could get the laser projector light:

 

I did the led footwell and door straight away, using osram 5000k iirc



Have since had the footwell lights wired to be on with headlights while driving at half brightness like ze germans do it - the osram wedge led bulbs have built in resistors so they can fade on/off like an oem setup unlike cheap otc China leds

 

Looks like you accidentally inverted the picture as your steering wheel is on the wrong side (yes, a joke)...

But to confirm, base model doesn't allow lighting or dynamic adjustments, but S and on up.. yes?

 

Well, it may be possible to spec it as an additional cost option in some markets/model years.

It may also be possible to enable it in a car that doesn't have it specced.

 

I know I'm being quite silly but here is the pic...
(Thanks to MI-FType)

 

I kinda like that.

 

My wife already rolls her eyes enough at me and my cars without me going to this kind of extreme. You should have heard the grief I had to endure when she first witnessed the vent popping out of the dashboard.

 

Sometimes our better half's don't appreciate the lure of clever and subtle engineering........or it it "boys and their toys". I can't remember which.

 

I think a bunch of both.

As wisely observed by the intellectual giant, Thomas Arnold:"Women! Can't live with them, can't kill 'em!"

I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

If you could change it to project it into the sky, like the Bat Signal, then I'm in.

 

That actually looks awesome.

 

I am late, reporting for duty.... exactly how was that accomplished, and how much did the parts cost (nada) and how much did it take to get it done (a bit?).

Mind you, I really enjoy not having any of the right tools for anything so a simple 45 minute project can take 2 to 3 weeks of running back and forth to the hardware store. I have this methodology down pat.

 

Here's a stupidly cheap one ($17/pair) - I'm sure there are a lot of different ones out there.

 

The genuine Cree with the Growler is only $18 for the pair. Looks like it's a simple lamp replacement. Worth it just to play with. (I just won't point it out to the spousal unit).

 

Link to the one with the growler?