I spliced into the footwell light under the dashboard. Just remove the light like you were going to replace the bulb and splice into the wires- mine was a bit snug but managed to pull out enough to make some good splices.

 

Thank you! I shall go with that option!

 

I've done one side and it's all connected up but it's just so dull. Nothing like the other photos on here. Did I just luck out on the EL tape or do I need to do something else here?

 

Did you make sure it was a 12v power box that came with your EL tape? The default purchase option on mine was 6v (because you could run it with 4 AAA batteries)

Could also just be the EL tape itself, they don't seem to have any sort of quality metric that the average consumer could figure out :\

 

It was an ebay purchase from China so there is always a risk I suppose. They said it was a 12v box but to be fair it’s blank so I don’t know. May just bit the bullet and order some more from a different ebay seller or just somewhere else. Any recommendations?

 

Sorry to bring up an old thread but just wanted to say that I followed the directions on here and I was able to do the same illuminated sills on my GTS. I did it the way the factory does it and bought a white and red EL tape and overlapped them. I bought the same cheap EL tape on eBay. They work fine but you can’t tell they’re illuminated during the day. At night it’s much better but I wish It was brighter. Other than that it was a very easy project.

 

Looks great! EL tape just seems to come in varying qualities, brightness, and stuff that I don't think there is an easy way to ascertain what is going to be super bright or not. Almost thinking maybe an LED array with a diffuse filter would be best at this point.