Interior lighting

[drburton]

I'm not sure if its just me but doesn anyone else find the interior lighting of the Boxster to be less than adequate?

Now that it's getting much darker, if I drive the Box at night the cabin is almost pitch black and the lighting on the gauges seems like it is set so low. Maybe I'm just used to my Touareg, which looks like a commercial airliner at night with all the lighting, gauges etc...

[nola911]

I just ordered white LEDs a few days ago. I will keep you updated with their results when they come in.

[tombea]

Most convertibles have problems with inside lighting. The Boxster is light years ahead of the Miata, for example. I am assuming that you have a light by the rear view mirror. When I first got my Boxster I was driving that first night and didn't know about the light under the mirror so I used the light in the sun visor. In the dark of night you would be surprised how bright that is :-)).

Tom
02 S

Burton, what is it that you need to see? Is Mrs. Dr. Burton doing surgury in your Boxster??

You do know that there is a dimmer control for the dash lights, right?

[rick3000]

I agree, the lighting is very inadequate.
Especially, if you are ever fumbling around for something in the foot-well, because the little light by the rear view mirror is not strong enough. I normally don't have a problem with light while driving, though.

You could go with a map light, or
I am going to install foot-well lights, to solve this problem. But I can't decide wether or not to put the foot-well lights on a separate switch, or hook them up to the upper push light. Thoughts?

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[Burg Boxster]

Originally Posted by rick3000

But I can't decide whether or not to put the foot-well lights on a separate switch, or hook them up to the upper push light. Thoughts?

Footwell lights are a huge help - even in summer w/ top down as it throws up more light. I added 2 trunk lights (997-632-201-00 $2.75 each from Sunset). One in each footwell but I changed out the bulbs to just 5W (had to rebend the prong to accept but was easy to do.

Wired them off the dome light (partial reason to also reduced to 5W to not overload). This way, they can be manually turned on w/ dome or come on automatically w/ door lights only. A big plus and all for $10 including the wire...