I saw an old thread of a glovebox light mod. A lot of our cars did not come with a glovebox light. There is a parts list if you want to add that extremely dim factory light and pay for a lot of parts you don't need. Or you can follow my guide and feel a lot more satisfied with a project you did yourself. While you are there you can do this cigar lighter mod AND the lighting mod, for less than you would pay just for the dim factory setup.
This is what your glovebox can look like for around $20.00. This picture was taken at midnight with camera flash off and all other interior lights off. It is VERY bright. I think it has a factory look to it, even with the cigar lighter there on the left.
Remove the glovebox and panel on the right side of the radio.
If you want the cigar lighter plug, a great addition if you want a DVD player in your glovebox or want to charge your phone or something, just to keep it out of the way and looking nice. I put it in my glovebox so I can have my miricast dongle so I can mirror my phone while driving (Pictures at end of post)
I paid under $1.80 with Free Shipping for the plug. Search for "Motorcycle Cigarette Lighter Plug" on eBay
That cigar lighter plug fit perfectly for me even though I am sure ones a little longer would fit too.
I used the outer circle to help me draw the circle I needed to cut out.
I used this piece inside of the previous circle. This gave me the actual size I wanted to cut
This location of the plug is the only practical spot to put it. Trust me I spent a couple hours sizing and measuring for a lot of other places in the glovebox. Any other feasible spot I tried made it impossible to put the glove box back in due to it snagging on the metal frame.
What it looks like done (I removed the rubber cover because I didn't care for it.)
Those are shaving on in the glovebox incase you thought it was all scratched up.
I then made the wires for it using these plastic male and female connectors with plastic around them. I got these on eBay as well for $3 Free shipping. They were called "Female Male Fully Insulated Wire Crimp Terminalas Nylon Connectors Wiring Spade" I got the red ones because I don't need the blue or yellow (Which are for a lot bigger wires) Take a male and female and push them together before you use them. A lot of these are VERY tight fit so you take their virginity and make them a lot easier to work with when you don't already have a wire attached to them.
I added an inline fuse just incase. I used a 3A. Later on you see a picture where I cut one of the ground ends to add the light ground to it so you might want to hold off on doing both ends of the ground wire if you plan on adding the lighting.
I went to autolumination.com/strips.htm and bought one "12 Volt Super-Thin Flexible Pre-Wired Modular Light Strips" and color choice was "Cool White" It came out to $7 including shipping. Cool white is the brightest. Warm white has a yellow tint to it.
This is what your glovebox can look like for around $20.00. This picture was taken at midnight with camera flash off and all other interior lights off. It is VERY bright. I think it has a factory look to it, even with the cigar lighter there on the left.
Remove the glovebox and panel on the right side of the radio.
If you want the cigar lighter plug, a great addition if you want a DVD player in your glovebox or want to charge your phone or something, just to keep it out of the way and looking nice. I put it in my glovebox so I can have my miricast dongle so I can mirror my phone while driving (Pictures at end of post)
I paid under $1.80 with Free Shipping for the plug. Search for "Motorcycle Cigarette Lighter Plug" on eBay
That cigar lighter plug fit perfectly for me even though I am sure ones a little longer would fit too.
I used the outer circle to help me draw the circle I needed to cut out.
I used this piece inside of the previous circle. This gave me the actual size I wanted to cut
This location of the plug is the only practical spot to put it. Trust me I spent a couple hours sizing and measuring for a lot of other places in the glovebox. Any other feasible spot I tried made it impossible to put the glove box back in due to it snagging on the metal frame.
What it looks like done (I removed the rubber cover because I didn't care for it.)
Those are shaving on in the glovebox incase you thought it was all scratched up.
I then made the wires for it using these plastic male and female connectors with plastic around them. I got these on eBay as well for $3 Free shipping. They were called "Female Male Fully Insulated Wire Crimp Terminalas Nylon Connectors Wiring Spade" I got the red ones because I don't need the blue or yellow (Which are for a lot bigger wires) Take a male and female and push them together before you use them. A lot of these are VERY tight fit so you take their virginity and make them a lot easier to work with when you don't already have a wire attached to them.
I added an inline fuse just incase. I used a 3A. Later on you see a picture where I cut one of the ground ends to add the light ground to it so you might want to hold off on doing both ends of the ground wire if you plan on adding the lighting.
I went to autolumination.com/strips.htm and bought one "12 Volt Super-Thin Flexible Pre-Wired Modular Light Strips" and color choice was "Cool White" It came out to $7 including shipping. Cool white is the brightest. Warm white has a yellow tint to it.