Monday, July 27, 2015

14 Impala Ghost Lights


Impala Ghost Lights 


 Remove the rubber piece in the door and remove the bolt.


Pry up the window controls and find the other bolt. There is no need to unplug the wires at this part.

Remove the little plastic cover to get to this bolt and remove.


Pull the top of the door trim up and over the lock with the windows down. Next start pulling and prying around the sides until you hear the clips.  Disconnect the door handle and the large power connector. The power connector should have a tab you pull over then wiggle the whole thing out.

Remove the top bolt from the speaker and pull upwards then out. The plug on the back is weird but will come out with a small screw driver. Roll the window back up by temporarily plugging power back in.
Both sides of this connector between the door can be pulled off. The cabin side has alot of wires in an assembly so I ran my wire under that in such a way the covers go back on as normal.

This is the inside of the door plug cover. Note my white wire coming out. There are three nipple like connectors on here. I opened it up to run the wire. To put it back you have to match up the nipples then pull until the snap in.
This is passenger side where my wire came in. There is a large squishy black piece that needs to be pulled out enough to snake the wire through. Driver side has the same thing but more electronics in the way.

Door sill needs to come up also.


Tapped directly into the footwell light and soldered. 



 Pick a good spot that the light won't be in the way or hit anything on the door.

 Here is were we drilled and mounted on the back side of the door panel.

 Connect the ran wire to the ghost light wires and solder

Found out the hard way you MUST run the wire through the black door panel cover and not the speaker hole.


Plug stuff back together.


Not bad for day time.





Do the same thing for the driver side.





 This is where we managed to get the wire to come into the cabin at.


Grid Charger

Go this in the mail Saturday. USPS left it at the front door. Plan on doing the install sometime this week with more pics and details.

Took some pics for now.
On the wire harness there are a few round ended taps zip tied onto the wire. These appear to be there to hold the wire down.

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First inline fuse I've seen covered like this.

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The power supply can be used for Gen2 and Gen3 Prius but have to get different adapter cable.

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Only 2 pins on the discharge kit. 20150725_144321.jpg20150725_144334.jpg 

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