DIY for neon lights?

DIY for neon lights?

hey i really wanan install some blue neons in the leg room for my corolla.. but I'm completely clueless on how to start.. does anyone have a DIY that can help me out... and where I can get good and not to expensive blue neons .. thanx

umm, please don't...please, pretty please with a cherry on top...please don't

why not???

I'd say it's rice...I'm not sure aboot the rest of the board.

But then it's your car and I shouldn't really tell you what to do.

My roomate has blacklights in the same spot in his CRX. It's ricey....my other roomate and I make fun of it quite often.

I wouldnt put neons. Just get a couple blue LED's or your old blue washer nozzle leds and wie them up under there. hat way it only costs you $10 for the stuff rather than $50.

humm... so how woudl i go about doing that..... =) .. its my firs time so i'm pretty new to it all

You get 2 blue LEDS. each one will have 2 wires on it. Solder a red wire to one and a black wire to the other. Twist both the red wires together and then attach them to some form of switched power source. You can leave them on all the time if you want since you would have to NOT drive the car for over 1 month before they would drain the battery.

Then twist the black wires together. attach them to a solid METAL ground. get some plastic tie wraps and attach them under the dash somewhere where they will shine onto the floor. that it.

damn i am planing to do under glows for my car too.. heheh show off my car at night!

I was thinking of underglows as well. I remember when they where cool about 10 years ago. all the ini trucks had em. Thanks to FF they are "cool" again. And with all the ricers still putting them on they will never go out of style.

i wanned to liek have a switch so i can turn it on and off .. woudl that be possible to do .. and where would i attach the lights to as a souce of electricity

if you are gonna have a switch for them then just run it off the power for the cig lighter in the little stoareg box by the ebrake. then it will only be on when the car is running, and you can still shut it off with your switch when you dont wanna see them. If you are talking underglows you should run those right off the battery.

hey do you knwo where I can get a more step by step guide .. maybe with picuter =) that woudl be really helpful

Dont know off hand. I'm an electrician and backyard mechanic so it helps me understand stuff like this. I am sure you can find it on the net though.

NO WAY DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. I put neons under my feet like in the dash and it looks really good. Go to wal-mart and buy the 10-12 inch neon things and buy a switch and some extra small gauge wire. Cut off the cigarette adpater things and splice the 4 wires + to + and - to -. Then get your head under the steering wheel and look behind the brake pedal. There is a switch that that is used by your brake lights to tell them when to turn on. That is what you will use for your + wires and then find a metal spot for your - wires. I jsut used some tape to secure the wires in place. Then cut the wires and splice in your switch. There is a little bit of space between and steering colum and the dash that is where I put my switch. Oh with the lights I just stoved up and zip tied under the dash on the driver and passenger side. LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED HELP

yea i'm really thinking about doing it but .. i'm really new so i'm completlt clueless about it .. can you give me some step by step instructions that would be great hehe ... cant wait to get a blue interior

Wiring the neons

Ok, i wired all four of my neons to the same cigarette line. My friend told me that I might have problems in the future, like blown fuses and relays. Is this true, or should i be fine?

man anyone know where i can get inexpensive blue neons .. liek 20 for 2 hehe hook me up... i"ve been lookin and they expensive

wal-mart has really cheap neon's and there halfway decent like 10-12 bucks

its not that hard just cut off the cigarette things and put wires together and find a hot wire and your good to go

I put a purple neon and the drivers dash and one under the passenger dash its looks good I also put a switch in under the steering wheel

I takes some pics tonight and post to help you get a idea

no dont worry b/c in the cigarette thing there is a fuse

koo cant wait for the pictures.. thanx man hey i was wondering what is the different between neon lights that come with teh thing you jsut plug into the cig lighter vs one that is a 2 WIRE HOOK UP and has a BUILT IN TRANSFORMERS. what does the transformer do? and is there a different if the tube is made of glass or plastic?
thanx

the ones with those huge transformers are just brighter and have bigger tubes

I put some pics up once a get them up on my site tommoro

so is one bettter than the other... is it hard to hook up the one with teh transformer? when you post the picutres can you hook me up wiht some DIY instructiosn too thanx =)

the ones with the big transformers are the under glow car kits

the neons I used have little transfromers built in (the ones you buy at wal-mart)

uhh ya I alreday have mine installed but Ill try my best to take some pics of how I installed it

here are my neons, they're not really neons, they're cold cathodes for computers. i also put a pair of blue ones under the seats (not in pic).... yes, i know my car is dirty.

thats a koo knob whered u get it its for auto rite how much was it

yes it is for auto, and it has an overdrive button as well. i got it from http://www.driverfx.com/ for $90 i believe.

hey so if i bought one that was liek two tubes connected to one of those cig lighter plug things can i cut the wire and split them up and hard wire them to the source seperatly ?

yes you can.

yes, and its so easy to do...

but it looks so much better if you find a hot wire to hook them up to under the dash

hurry and get the pictures and instructiosn up hehe i cant wait =) .. tahnx