Originally Posted by BlueRidgeRunner

I used this to help me out today and it made things much easier! I did not want to take much of my car apart as it was raining out so instead of doing the a pillar or tapping into the ecu I used the dome light just behind the front seats. I thought it would be difficult to snake the wire through and around the sunroof, but it took less than 5 minutes. I used a multi meter to find that the middle wire to this dome light went hot when the doors were open. The connector at the dome light is easily tapped into without requiring any extra hardware. It is a gate style so you can simply flip it open, add your accessory wire and close it and you have power! I've included a picture below to help visualize this. Also, all you really need for this is about 4 feet of 18 gauge wire, one bullet style connector, and some electrical tape.Thanks so much J.A.!!

Originally Posted by brian.joshua

Old thread, but this post helped. Took me about 10 minutes to figure out that the wire needs to be routed along the passenger side.

Also, my 2007 center dome light doesn't look like that at all. Mine has wires that are closer looking to a thin wire ribbon from a computer.

Originally Posted by Geecole

Just did the mod on my ‘08 and while the map lights work now, I lost most of the light to the middle dome light...thoughts? I tied into the circuit with a quick splice on the driver side windshield column....

Originally Posted by B_abell

Thanks for the write up! I tapped mine off of the dome light and have the symptoms Chris had, except mine is the passenger. Turning on passenger map light illuminates all interior domes. Viewing this as a happy surprise, extremely handy at times!