r/MiataND

I wanted a challenging (for me at least) project for my '23 RF GT and inspired by a post on Miata.net, I added: 1) footwell (driver's and passenger's side) lighting that follow the behavior of the DOOR setting of the dome/map light, and 2) underbody lighting that could either also follow the DOOR setting behavior or be manually turned on and dimmed to your desired level with a remote. Here are the results and me talking through at a pretty high level (i.e. not very detailed) what I did:

Underbody and Footwell Lighting on ND Miata

The footwell lighting was somewhat practical and somewhat aesthetic, and I guess the same is true of the underbody, though the original thought was increased visibility of my small car in the evening when driving among the giants.

I purposely used a warmer color temperature (3000K) IP67 (waterproof) LED strips, though you can buy pretty much any color temperature you want.

If there's interest, I can post more details on materials used and how I connected everything together.

While this is probably pretty transferable to other generations and even other cars, I can only really answer specifics (wire routing, tapping into dome light wires, etc) based on the ND.

Any questions, feel free to ask.