nitemares
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- 2007 VZ White Crewman ute.
A note of caution.
The connector at the rear/middle light is small and the wires connected there are tiny. Be careful soldering in the vehicle....as I wasn't. You would not believe...the last joint I just moved the iron away quickly and grazed the surface of the roof linig.....nice burn through.
I also found that when I dropped my roof lining down. (VZ Crewman) on the roof side of the lining at the front was a cut out marked for the sunglass holder/console. I still made a template which helped for the back end of the whole that ends up being under the insulation.
I also took the chance of dropping into the holden dealer for the screws. They are special screws, he said something about 4.2mm.....I have ordered them and they are going to cost $1.00 each.
On the back of my roof console was a guide and lock plastic tongue. This also helped to line everything up and is holding mine in place now whilst I await the arrival of the screws.
Nice upgrade....all works great....and looks good I think.....just don't look at the burn marks.....bugger.
P.S. Just got the screws. They went straight in once I took the little plastic bits on the ends off......they are seriously short. Here is a pic.
Step 6) Run your new loom through the roof from the centre console to the dome lamp. I cut mine about this long (look at attached image). You can also see the cut i made to the roof trim in this photo.
Step 7) What you need to do is on the dome lamp loom, cut all the wires except White/Green Trace at about whatever length you feel comfortable. Be mindful that you cant pull the loom out any further unless you remove the roof trim.
The way you need to connect them are as follows:
(my loom ------------ dome lamp loom)
Black --------------- Earth to the roof via the screw for the dome lamp (in later pic)
Green -------------- Orange/black
White -------------- Black
Blue ---------------- Yellow/blue
Step 7) Before you solder your wires slip some shrink wrap on. Much easier than electrical tape and looks better. There is a pic attached on how I joined my wires before soldering.
Step 8) Once you have soldered / shrink wrapped all of your wires, tape up the loom if you wish so its all bound. The original dome lamp had a slit in one of the leg posts for the mounting screw (as shown in picture) I slipped my ground through here with an O-ring type terminal on the end. very easy to ground like this.
Step 9) Once your done, plug it all up, and YOUR ALL DONE! Wasnt so hard was it?
All up this cost me:
$15 for the centre roof console
$7 for the connection plug
$2.50 for shrink wrap
$6 on wire (i bought 7 core trailer wire since i couldnt find the colors i needed seperate in automotive gauge)
Not bad :yeah:
All lights work independently and turn on when doors open. Only fault with the way it is wired now is that if the dome lamp is switched to "Off" the new console will not turn on when the doors open / car is unlocked. they DO however still work manually as map lights. So no big deal. Only way around this is to get a VY/VZ loom and run a whole bunch of other cabling which, in my opinion, is just NOT WORTH IT! Why would you have your dome lamp set to OFF anyway?
The connector at the rear/middle light is small and the wires connected there are tiny. Be careful soldering in the vehicle....as I wasn't. You would not believe...the last joint I just moved the iron away quickly and grazed the surface of the roof linig.....nice burn through.
I also found that when I dropped my roof lining down. (VZ Crewman) on the roof side of the lining at the front was a cut out marked for the sunglass holder/console. I still made a template which helped for the back end of the whole that ends up being under the insulation.
I also took the chance of dropping into the holden dealer for the screws. They are special screws, he said something about 4.2mm.....I have ordered them and they are going to cost $1.00 each.
On the back of my roof console was a guide and lock plastic tongue. This also helped to line everything up and is holding mine in place now whilst I await the arrival of the screws.
Nice upgrade....all works great....and looks good I think.....just don't look at the burn marks.....bugger.
P.S. Just got the screws. They went straight in once I took the little plastic bits on the ends off......they are seriously short. Here is a pic.
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