Well I took a look at the instructions (pictures) for installing my lighted sills. These things don't make any sense to me. Would some one who has installed these sills give me a quick rundown on how to do it. I can't figure out which side of the car to run the wires and were do you splice into your harness wires. I'm sure there are short cuts and an easy way to do it. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

crossfirefrank,

First off there are not really any 'shortcuts' to this install. The steps outlined in the Chrysler installation instructions are correct, if a bit vague.

Here's some help.

1. To remove your old sill plates, get under one end of them and pull up sharply. There are clips on them that may stay on the body steel. These will have to be removed for the new plates to go in. The new plates have new clips.

2. The side that the transformer (little yellow box) goes on, is the right or passenger side (in the USA). The thing that makes the install easier is to move the passenger seat all the way forward and then lean it all the way forward until it's touching the dash if possible. Do this for the left side as well as you will need to get the wiring for the sill plate through.

3. If you can pull your carpet up without this step, fine, if not... proceed. Torx screws that hold in the metal hold down and plastic surround where the seatbelt comes out of the rear pillar and there is one or two semi-hidden torx screws too. Just take your time with these if you need to remove them as the plastic piece will break if you miss a screw. Not badly, but it's annoying.

4. The wiring codes are in shorthand PNK = Pink, etc. Basically they want you to splice into a hot and the door pin grounds for the brown wires. If you have never soldered before... go grab a friend that has.

5. Getting the wire across is described as needing a puller or grabber type tool. You can do this with a stiff piece of wire such as a coat hanger. First straighten the coat hanger, then bend over about 1 or two inches on one end and pass that through the carpet area described. Next using masking or electrical tape, wrap the wires you need to pass once around the coat hanger loop and tape in place. Then just slowly fish them back through the carpet.

Hope that helps.

 

Mine i bought have 2 brown wires, and one red. Where do i tie both brown wires into? And what color do i tie the red into?

 

Did you ever figure out why there are 2 brown wires? Using my multimeter, they are joined, so it appears that you could use either 1 or both. Maybe they gave us 2 in case we wanted to have them switched on via 2 sources (door pin circuit & another switch/circuit)???

 

i wish those came in a color other than blue. maybe a neutral white?

 

Do the color change mod to make them any color you want. I'm changing to red.
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...ad.php?t=12567

 

DI just finished installing mine.
2 Tips:
1) The speaker grills have a top and bottom. The top has fewer attaching flanges. Get them updside down and you'll crack them. Check it out right after you remove them.
2) The wire coloring behind the passenger seat under the carpet for the interior lights =
Brown/Grey = Passenger Door Button
Brown/Pink = Driver Door Button
Black/Yellow W/white hash marks = Power