lol that always cracks me up.finding parts numbers is not a secret these days. 10 years ago MAYBE.

 

Has anyone else installed this? I'm gonna order the one from eBay. If I can't locate the appropriate wiring harness, I'll just make one.

 

I just went to my dealer, with the light, and the parts manager rumbled around through his wiring harness until he found the plug that I needed. He cut it so there was about a 12" pigtail for me.

Oh, and there was no charge!! They love me there!!

 

Sweet. I should go to our Honda dealer and see what they can find... our sales lady (the Internet Manager) loves having us come back to show her all the stuff we're doing with the car.

 

Okay, my map light is installed! I ended up using two female plugs from a PC molex connector to attach to the prongs on the light, and then I wire-nutted those to the fished wire connected to the dome light and the ground wire connected to the rear mirror. I initially had some wiring issues, but after that was fixed it went fast.



$18.99 well spent!! Thanks for the tutorial, wyy183.

 

You can get a connector from a junk yard.

It's actually the same one that is used for trunk/hatch lights

 

Good point. I may do that later to clean up the install. I didn't want to go find one since it would have taken an extra hour out of my day

Yuf, thanks for posting the original pics and part info!

 

Looks good, but you should have done the CL map lights with Homelink.

 

^ I don't have a garage door! ... heck, we didn't even have a driveway until Monday of this week. Gotta wait until the concrete cures before the Fit can finally be parked off-street. Gotta protect my baby!

 

A few months later....

Have you had any problems with it falling out or getting loose?
Is it still just as secure?

 

really thinking about this, but I rather have someone install it that knows more about wires then I do! ya know

 

yeah...but if someone does a diy..then i say do it yourself.


i think i could figure it out if i actually sat down to take a look. i really need a map light, or LEDs in my roof line.

 

I found a maplight from some Honda in my dad's toolbox (retired 35 yr Honda Tech). Its grey but slightly darker than the headliner and has one switch for both lights. Located a plug for it in his "diagnostic" plugs bin. Now, do I really want to cut into the headliner? If I put this in, I'm gonna have to get some blue or red LED "mood lights" for it.......

Part of me feels it would be of more use installed in the cargo area.....

 

Bump

Found this thread after a bit of searching and I know there are a bunch of us that want to install maplights.

 

hmmm... i couldn't see the pics on the 1st page?

 

nevermind, old a-ss post LOL..

 

I used a DC2 maplight for mine, at least for the moment i have a maplight, when i get my hands on the OEM one i'll take these out.

 

I understand what your steps were and thank you for the write-up. I just spent an hour or so fiddling around with my map lights (purchased from icbmotorsport).


That having been said, I still have a few questions about wiring. If I tap the positive and the negative from the dome light and extend the wires to the map lights the map lights only come on when the doors are opened. If I tap the positive from the dome light and extend it to the map lights and ground the map lights by using a bolt for the rear view mirror the map lights do not come on with the doors but they do turn on/off regardless of door open or closed.


Here is how I want my map lights to function:
1. When the doors are open the map lights turn on.
2. When the doors close the map light turns off.
3. When I click the map light it turns on, and when I click the map light it turns off again.


So, basically, I want the map lights to function much like the dome light. The dome light has two wires (positive and negative) and three settings (on, door, and off) and I want the map lights, using a positive and negative (because there are only two terminals [when looking at the lights like they will be mounted in the headliner with the lights down negative is on the left and positive is on the right]) that are either on, on with door open, or off. Anyone? And before anyone suggests I use the search bar for the answer, I have. Multiple times, and this was the most helpful thread yet, but does not answer my wiring question.