Overhead Light Removal (?)

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:31 pm

Hey guys, I want to add some red LED bulbs in with my white lights above the center console for night driving (and control them with a switch).

Anyone remove the lights up there or can point me in the right direction? I'm going to head down to my jeep now and see what I can dig up but it would be nice to get some references

At The Helm · **Posted:** Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:41 pm

Iirc you just pop the clear lens out with a flat head screwdriver. There should be a little slot on there somewhere. Putting leds was the very first mod I did to my kk, I'll never go back to reg incandescents.

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:50 pm

Awesome!! Thanks!

I'm probably going to switch a white LED into the stock position and add a red LED bulb in each and put a switch in my switch box. Thanks for the advice though :mrgreen:

ajohns1288 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:44 pm

Do you mean something like this:

I rewired the courtesy lap feed to go to an added LED in the center, the red ones come on and off with the switch.

Stang977 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:35 am

Quote:

I rewired the courtesy lap feed to go to an added LED in the center, the red ones come on and off with the switch.

That's cool

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:09 pm

That's really cool. My plan is to install another set of lights within the incandescent area, so I will keep the regular incandescent lights (for now) and run red LED lights with a switch. They'll come from the same spot, but the incandescents will turn on when the door is open, light lens is pushed up, etc.

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:36 pm

Has anybody taken down the entire overhead console? Considering trying to pry it off and install the lights in the flat area near the useless paperclip thing

InfernoRedKK · **Posted:** Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:00 am

Yep just pull down hard from the sides!!! there are 3 clips holding the console up I will post pictures later today I have mine out now at home.

As far as removing the lens.. there are 2 clips at the hinge that pop out with a little pressure from small flat head screw driver.. I removed the lens from the back (where you push the light on) then I saw how the lens was held into place.

jjohnson1892 wrote:

Has anybody taken down the entire overhead console? Considering trying to pry it off and install the lights in the flat area near the useless paperclip thing

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:25 pm

InfernoRedKK wrote:

Yep just pull down hard from the sides!!! there are 3 clips holding the console up I will post pictures later today I have mine out now at home.

As far as removing the lens.. there are 2 clips at the hinge that pop out with a little pressure from small flat head screw driver.. I removed the lens from the back (where you push the light on) then I saw how the lens was held into place.

Great, thanks! I was playing with the overhead console after posting and got it down and back up easily. Luckily (sorta) Amazon decided to not ship some electrical parts with 2 day shipping so I have some time to continue planning/prepping

Overhead Light Removal (?)

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