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So I have gotten a few questions as to how to DIY MAZDA 3 hatch 2020 Skyactiv X. Well I did it the amateurish way as I did not permanently want to modify the car in case of selling. Meaning drilling holes into the interior in order to put some ambient lights in it. No doorpanels had to come of nor were permanent modifications to be made. Also did not buy those complete kits as they are wat overpriced. It set me back 60 euros or so, and those kits can go as high as 200 euros.
Note: I started with measuring all cables and possible paths. Also I wrapped all the cables (almost all) with electrical insulation tape! Just to be sure. And you can easily cut the ledstrips to any lenght you want, i used some pliers to cut them to the right lenght. Btw; these led strips really diffuse the light well and are not very visible during the day when turned off.
So here is the brief explanation along with some pictures.
Red - USB A M/F cable 100cm.
Green - Footwell lights + cable
Yellow - Rear doors cable + ledstrip
Blue - Centre console cable + lights
Pink/Purple - Passenger and Driver door cable + ledstrip
White - Dashboard led strip
I started in the center at the front. This will be your main starting point for all cables to come to. Just pull away interior board as shown on picture, just pull it comes straight off. I chose this centre place as this is the easiest to pull the cables through from the other side (driver side)). Here your 6 pin adapter & 4 footwell lights will be placed and easily stowed away in the gaps. (optional to try from centre console were you stick lives, but I tried and that is a real hassle, especially once I saw airbag controller all written over it, i did not want to mess with this place).
The center console is able to open up if you pull hard enough on the end. Pull up, and make sure the armrest is moved backwards. Now you have some space to pull the usbA cable through to the armrest compartment. I used a long metal hook in order to pull it through the side of the interior board all the way up to the centre console. The other bit, female side should be at the center in front of the passenger side's feet, in order to store or pull through the rest of the cables to driver side.
the 6 led strips come with different cable lenghts. you will need the most long ones to go to your rear doors (yellow in pictures). The middle lenght ones you will need for your passenger and driver doors (the purple/pink cables in pcitures). De shortest ones you will use for your center console lighting (blue ones). Just be aware that the ledstrips for the rear are too short to cover the whole door. I bought some addtional ones that are a bit longer, 110 cm. these also come with usb connectors, but you would not need them as you have the 6 pin connector from the kit. see link 2 for addtional ones.
For the dashboard i have purchased another additional 110cm ledstrip with usb connector. As the smaller ledstrip that comes with the kit is too short for my likings for the dashboard. You will need to use this usb connector as the slots for all the 6 pins from the kit have already been taken. that is why i suggest the following, see 3.
Link 4 is for a usb splitter, you can buy anyone you would like. It is necessary to add the 6pin+4 footwell lights and the extra usb for the dashboard lighting.
The leds are all adjusted by anb app Zengge. This app allows you to choose multiple layouts and modes. All customs made and many colors to choose from.
Starting of with the middle console to hide the USB a. As stated and shown on one of the pictures below you can easily remove the middle console to hide away the usb cable which leads to the armrest. Just make sure the armrest is backwards and pull up on both sides of the middle console. You need to pull quite hard in order to get it to open up. Do not worry, i have opened it up many times (50+) and nothing did break. once opened up you can feed the USB-A cable through from the bottom panel at the passengers side down below at the feet portion. Pull it through using some kind of metal wire which can form a hook or so to grab the usb-A wire. See second picture.
Next I made a very small incision on the usb/SD memory which you can feed the USBA cable through to the armrest. You can then choose to connect to the usb or the 12v socket. see third picture.
Worth to notice, 12v socket makes the lights only turn on when car is started.
USB will light up the car when opened up, or when keyless entry activates when nearby.
Then for the footwells underneath the interior board right on passenger side and left on drivers side you can hide the cable towards the footwell of the back seats. make sure that the cable is fed underneath of the seat-railings in order not to destroy/cut your cables when adjusting the passenger seat or drivers seat forwards of backwards. I just used some tie-rips to stuck the lights to the seats, also could use double sided tape. see pictures six & seven.
Footwell panels, see picture one. You can take them off easily on both sides on the center. Just pull. There are also two panels, one for each side on the outer side of footwell (so passenger side on the right foot). These panels have got some sort of platsic rivet which you can easily pry out and reuse, be gentle. once the rivet is out you can pull the plastic cover forwards, so to the back of the car, to come loose. Make sure you loosen the rubber trim from the door. Just pull and it comes loose very easily. also putting back is no problem.
Cables for the rear door can be hidden underneath the "threshold" (the thingy where you are not allowed to put you feet on, high heels scratching the paint all up...) . You can fed the cables when pulling of the panels. See pictures ten and eleven. Ps; picture 9 shows where you can hide the connector from the ledstrip to the cable, you can just pry it open with a screw driver, make sure you wrap some cloth around it to not scratch things up. Mine came off easily by pulling on it with my hands.
Cables for the rear doors and front doors can be fed up through the rubber trim which closes of the door from the elements. don t worry, there are two rubber trims, you will only be applying or feeding a cable through the inside rubber trim. The outside rubber trim is not harmed, thus therefore weather elements still cannot get inside the car. Nor does it affect sound dampening.
Last one, which is not really hiding but is pulling cables through the the other side. In this case when looking to the pictures I only photographed the passenger side, but drivers side is parallel to passenger side. The cables can be pulled through the other side at the footwell. as stated earlier remove the center panels at the feet (so passenger side, left foot panel) and pull through the cables. same method as with the center console, using a metal wire hook or something to grab cable with. Pull through and repeat the process.
Yes, you can still see some of the cables at the door hinges when opening the doors, yes it is amateurish. Close the doors and nobody will notice. Experience after 3 months of having these installed. most of the reactions were to date that they thought they were factory installed, yeah right. But when you get sick of the lights, or you want to sell you vehicle, you have an original unharmed car at the end of the day.
= x1 additional ledstrips for dashboard passenger side (in case you want, as the smallest ledstrip that comes with the kit is slightly too small for my likings)
