I honestly thought a lot of people would be interested in something like this...especially considering how cheap it is.
If we had a group buy of 10 or so it would end up being $45 total, as I already went to the trouble of speaking to both the vendors of the items about a possible future group buy and for lowered prices.....
Guess I was wrong.
Well for anyone interested, here is the link to the website I purchased the relay from.
http://www.v-leds.com/BlinkerWarning-Fi ... 81146.htmlThis specific relay will allow for the indicators to flash when you lock/unlock the car.
All the ones on ebay will not do this, don't bother trying them.
And here are the LED indicators themselves.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2-pcs-Amber- ... 3cad9b96a8If the Ebay link goes down, for future reference search this.
"Amber 7440 7443 t20 27 5050 SMD LED"
Here is an install guide for the Relay. (
I CAN ONLY SAY THIS GUIDE IS FOR POST FACELIFT - I have not seen pre-facelift...I imagine it's very similar though)
It's not complicated at all, hardest part is getting the stupid relay off the black plastic fuse bit, and it's only hard because it's frustrating to remove, when it should be a simple task
Rest is just removing annoying bits of trim in the way, I'm sure if you wanted to you could do it all without actually completely removing the under steering wheel dash section itself, but it's such an easy thing to do that I dunno why you wouldn't remove it, because I tried doing the relay change without moving it and it was way too frustrating.
The relay!Step 1 - Remove side dash sectionThis is the same deal as when you removed your passenger side to change the cabin filter. Get a flathead in the spot picture and jiggle it a bit and you will be able to remove the plastic section with your hands.
Step 2-3 - Remove the 4 plastic screw insertsLook under the steering wheel halfway towards the pedals, there are 4 plastic inserts. 2 of these are phillips head removeable, the following 2 are flathead/hand removeable.
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Step 4 - remove the under steering wheel dash section.These green clips are holding the dash part in, there are a few other bits (cables) that also hold it in, but you will need to pull outwards to remove the dash section from the clips.
Step 5 - Remove the Headunit silver plastic insert By pulling on the section in red (in small sharp motions) it will actually pop out the silver plastic section around the headunit, so you don't have to try get at it with a flathead and damage the thing, just let the black dash section do the work! (the arrow indicates where to actually pull)
Step 6 - Unclip the wires for the side mirrors/dash illumination.As easy as it sounds, they are held in by a little push clip. push it in, and then pull the wiring section out. Each push button is marked in the pic by a red dot. The very far one is on the opposite side and is a little annoying to get to.
Step 7 - (OPTIONAL) remove left side wiringI'm really interested to know what the hell this thing does? I looked inside where it connects to the dash and there is some sort of A/F sensor looking thing sitting inside.....weird? Anyways you don't HAVE to remove this, because by this point you can just twist the dash section on an angle, but if you are like me and like removing stuff.....you can unclip this final wire and the whole dash section is now removable.
Step 8 - Remove the 2nd fuse section from the primary fusesEasy enough, push in the 2 clips and slide towards you.
Step 9 - Remove the original RelayThis is pretty annoying to get out, you can either try pry in the little red circle from the front or the back, and leverage the little clip that is holding it on. Then slide it back out towards you. (I spent 20 minutes last night on this......god I hate this part)
There is also a cable at the back of it that plugs in to the relay, similar design as the other cables in this post that have a small button on them to unclip.
Step 10 - Insert your new LED relay, and reverse all the steps!