Video: Ambient Lighting in Action

[ohmyfairladyz]

What's that big oval on the left?

It used to be a place to put the key of the car in to hold it instead of leaving it in your pocket or in a cup holder

 

[Hubert]

I finally got the T99F3-6GP0A kit installed at the dealership. The lights are incredibly faint. Especially the ones in the footwell area; you can barely see them. Absolute waste of money.


One thing that I just found, is that there is a second variant available: T99F3-6GP20

So, now I'm wondering if this variant has more intensity. Anyone know?

 

[AlanZ]

I finally got the T99F3-6GP0A kit installed at the dealership. The lights are incredibly faint. Especially the ones in the footwell area; you can barely see them. Absolute waste of money.


One thing that I just found, is that there is a second variant available: T99F3-6GP20

So, now I'm wondering if this variant has more intensity. Anyone know?

What did your dealership charge for install?

 

[Hubert]

What did your dealership charge for install?

They stated this required 3 hrs of labor, but they reduced it to 2 hrs. They did other things, so I don't have the invoice breakdown, but it's too expensive for a subpar product.

 

[AlanZ]

They stated this required 3 hrs of labor, but they reduced it to 2 hrs. They did other things, so I don't have the invoice breakdown, but it's too expensive for a subpar product.

Mind posting any photos?or even a video. I have the interior light package and am going to have it installed on Monday. Now I’m wondering if it’s worth it.

 

[Hubert]

Mind posting any photos?or even a video. I have the interior light package and am going to have it installed on Monday. Now I’m wondering if it’s worth it.

I don't have any pictures of it. Where I live we just passed a multi-day snow storm, so I won't be able to use the Z until a few days from now.

Here's what I can tell you. On my install, when I picked up the car (during the daylight), I couldn't tell they were on. So, I made sure they were active and I could see them by looking directly over the cup-holders, but while I was under a well illuminated space, I couldn't notice they were on. Sadly, it was the same story on the footwells. I could see some faint reflection on the tip of my shoes, but it was definitely subpar.

I suppose that if I go to a fully dark space, then I will be able to see their effect, but I can tell you they certainly don't look like their promo videos.

These promo videos show how bright the lights are on the other cars, but NOT the Z's.



That's why I'm beginning to think the other model T99F3-6GP20 is much more intense.

Maybe the ones on the Z are faint by design, to be more elegant. Who knows!?

 

[troymdaniels]

I don’t personally think it’s worth it. I did the install myself about a week ago, as stated the lights are very faint. I’m a glutton for punishment and while the install wasn’t “hard” it was still a pain in the a$$ and took some time and a good deal of disassembly. If the dealer will do it for reasonable, let them, but don’t expect much.

 

[Yoloz]

Interior accent lighting install and kick plates - RIGHTHAND DRIVE

Got the installation manual from the forum which was handy. The first time prying on the parts can be a bit scary and you don’t want to break anything. Besides the surprise I got when the accessory connectors I bought had nowhere to plug into. I will confirm how I got the kick plates and accent lighting installed. Recommend by an aftermarket kit the plugs into the 12v cigarette lighter if you want to save your time stress and money. However, if you like your OEM / OEM+ then this is job you want to take your time with.

We get no options in Australia at purchase, only red accent leather and that its. Quite sad compared to Japan and US markets.

Install manuals can be found in the fourms.

Make sure you got following:

Painters tape, electrical tape, your drill bits whole punch and derbrer. Also long screw driver.

Part 1 – say 4 hours to remove trim, make all drill holes, route the wires and then reassemble, note still have connect the wires as I waiting for new wiring harnesses from Japan as I did not want to tap into the wiring with posi taps if I could avoid it. As I am not auto electrician.

Trim removal

Instruction manual does show you the correct steps for most of the way to remove the trim. However some additional steps I have noted to make things easier.

HOT TIP: After each piece removal, any edges or sharp edges that could touch other pieces of trim, spend 30 seconds and tape up areas that could scratch. The cup holders had some light scuffs Near the edge where it butts up against the manual gear stick around. Forgot to tape that up.

INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR THE USA SPEC: So templates you print are to be swapped from left to right and then flipped over horizontally. To see the drill hole position, hold paper up with light behind it and get a black texter to place a dot on the drill hole dot and hole punch and use painters tape to hold templates in place.

You do not need to take off the leather boot surround as once you discount the plugs for the start/stop button and mode then you can freely rotate it left and right 90 degrees to remove the screws for the side knee pads / soft leather side trim.

SIDE KNEE PADS / SOFT LEATHER SIDE TRIM: tip is to pop some electrical tape end of flat head screw driver so it does not scratch and use to push down lightly on the silver metal clips, that helps reach the clips with less force when pulling on the side knee pads / soft leather side trim.

CHARGING PORT: instructions missing steps, after you have removed the screw, it takes a bit of force to pull forward, apply painter tape under the thermostat and fan controls just in case., if you can squeeze the metal clip in to release one clip slightly closes to the where you removed the screw. You are feeling blind. This is charging port piece has two clips on top and a black plastic clip at the lower back towards the center of the center console.

Once charging port loose you cannot unclip the green connector and black one as you can’t pull it out further enough. Go to step 3.14, lift up front of the gadget tray and pull forward to release the clips at the back and remove. The charging port can then be pulled forward to remove the clips. Note when reinstalling you want to connect the green and black connector on the charging ports first and make sure their connectors are in. then place the charging port loosely back in it place as you then reinstall the gadget tray then charging port.

I also have shown two silver screws that hold down the centre console, remove and don’t loose them, don’t know where the gap goes to, this will app allow to lift this up threading up harnesses under the entre centre console box


CENTRE CONSOLE TRIM 4.2: note I recommend you move both sides of this trim as you need the space and to be able to cleanly route the harnesses. Note each side is held in with one screw and then you need gently pull it away from centre console box so it unclips and then you can push to toward front of vehicle to slide it out.

Drivers side of car, right hand side for Japan / Australia you can see it under the lower dash.

For the left hand side you will need to drop the glove box, 6 easy to see screws and then one at the far back, get a long screwdriver and magnetise it if you have a magnetiser then pull the glove box forward and place it down. Again use painters tape along way to cover sharp edges and parts that will touch each other when moving parts around.


With 4.1 then tape up the 30” wire tie the white large wire tie to the light pipe. The only fit one way. Note since our steering wheel is on the opposite side, so make sure you use the footwell light that has least amount of bend as you need feed the flatter light bar between this gap which best way to feed, photo below shows where this little light bar will come out of where the arrow is..it is straight path from the other side.

Power cable routing, in part 2 will explain why I made this choice but I routed to the drivers RH side as I had a connector there



4.6 Switch mounting and the hole: recommend to make the hole at least 12mm as when I feed the connector through the hole it snapped off the thin black retaining part of the clip is the best I can describe it that makes the satisfying click broke off that holds the connector in place in the control module… hope it does not shake loose later.

Installation complete for kick plates and lighting done without the wiring

Part 2: D-opt out connector issue. After not being able to find LH and RH side connectors for the kick plates and under lighting.

Australian Z and from what I can gather the Japan does not have it… I found a connector as per photo below…

This is a male connector on the right hand side of drivers side above the fuse box. The D-opt connectors from Nissan are male as well however these are for the USA market as the harness connector are different.

Then I got looking on google, I bought two different harness a Japanese website world shopping

Fairlady RZ34 Optional power supply BCM coupler harness ZCAR ZERO original, one single and one interrupt style, these are female type. I could not find a connector on the left hand side however did find 3 slim rectangular connectors, one near the BCM and two taped together above the BCM. I did tap into one which was lavender red and lavender pink was above the BCM and it seems it was the same wires from the door connector. This was not case. Unless I am blind, could not see any service connectors on the passenger side.

Also jumped on amazon Japan and bought two OTORAM Power Wire Harness / Nissan Fairlady Z Series / Model: RZ34 / Year: R4.4 ~ Coupler / Easy Installation. I have now got 6 wiring harnesses. Hopefully I can make use of two and then sell the other 4.

Since I did not want to blow up the oem under lighting kit as that did not have any fuses. So went with the kick plates as that had a fuse box.

Kick plate install :So could figure where to connect the black and red wire kick plate wires I connected used a multimetre to test the wires as there are 6, as mentioned the blac, was ground the white/grey wire was acc, tested that wire for 12v current after hit pressed the start stop twice to fire up the screens. Then I tested the two red wires and can confirm both wires were hot with constant 12v on both. That left the blue lamp and orange wire Illmi wire.

Could not get any current out of these was coming out of these wires but maybe I missed the timing of when the door light switched off, best way was to turn your head lights on. Found out the black wire from the kick plate needs to joined to the blue room wire with the posi connector and the red wire to orange illumination then bingo that worked. This then gave me the answer how to connect the OEM footwell lighting as I then knew where the yellow (room lamp) and pink wire to the orange Illumination. So wired them up while I was in there with the posi connectors

For the left kick plates, only need the Room lamp and Bat-saver connection. However there is no connectors for accessories. This is passenger / left hand side for right hand drive just to make sure there is no confusion. Glove box was removed and searched everywhere as mentioned. So when to jay car electrical and bought 3 metres of red and black wire and two metres of braded sleeving for a cleaner install. So what I did was connect this to the right hand side connector, so used the large white cable tie that came with the lighting kit and taped additional wire I put through the braded sleeving and fed it under dash behind the air ducs as it had a gap behind there.

Tested everything and then it was time to button everything up.

Some random pics below. Me reversing the template for the light on off switch.

Testing below light, and there is some of additional wire for the kick plate that was sleeved.

This is where the light control box need to go, after you double side the tape, connect wires slide that box down about 3 cm into the pocket so it does not impend the phone tray when you put that back in.

Note that bundle of wired was some of the oem accent lighting kit however the bulk of it was a fun little addon, I installed a Japanese ETC card reader for the bit of fun. Note I used the card holder slot to mount it, as the card holder slot can be removed with two screws and I assume Nissan made that slot for a ETC reader,

ETC Reader install, Panasonic CY-ET926D ETC Onboard Car Device. removed the card holder that basically does nothing and it the perfect spot for that nice welcome at startup ?.

Footwell

Cup holders

 

[Shobotan]

^ Really appreciate the write up as I'm about to tackle the same job. I was trying to figure out which connector I need, probably the interrupt/parallel connector will do the job.

 

[Yoloz]

^ Really appreciate the write up as I'm about to tackle the same job. I was trying to figure out which connector I need, probably the interrupt/parallel connector will do the job.

Glad you liked my post Buddy is your USA or a Australian delivered Z? i have one spare at the moment and can post it to you in Australia for $40 bucks AUD (part and postage inc). As due to me working out how to do all this and trial and error. i got two USA spec accessory connectors as when i first undertook this project i bought what i thought was required until i got the nasty surprise Australian Z don't have the same connector. make sure you download and print the install manuals from the forum.

 

[Shobotan]

^Mine is AUS delivered and I've ordered the OTORAM connector that fits between the existing plug connection, leaving the tails for the accessory connections, otherwise I'd take you up on your offer.

 

[Dying Star]

Question, with the stock OEM lighting kit, we have an Extra slot, anyone tried to plug in more lighting strips or stuff, I want to get another cable but wasn’t sure if other brands are compatible or if they fit at all

 

[msquared94]

I went with the Govee RGBIC interior car lights. Pretty simple install.