Interior illumination

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Yes it ended up costing a bit more. As I do with these things I ended up waiting for a sale on Volvo parts and grab the door panel harnesses. I couldn't just do the front doors hehe, I needed the lighting in the rear doors too. I am very happy with the results. Some things can be gotten used, the little lamp modules are common Volvo parts (the door pocket lamp and the puddle/footwell lamp style) sometimes cheap used if shipping doesn't kill it. I also pickeded up the rear reading light modules (w/ambient lighting) used.

I do have the cupholder lamp unit as well to complete the whole thing, never installed it, just lazy to take the console apart to do that ;-)

I have an S60 though, it is possible that other models may not have the "build harness" type on the interior door panels, they could have the plugs for the extra lighting present on the "mid" lighting cars.

So if i understand you correctly, if i've been stupid enough to buy lots of harnesses to retrofit keyless entry, i should be able to sneak this retrofit into the doors also in the same go?
Is this retrofit solely done in the door or does it need to be pinned out to the pillar / CEM?

Nice to meet you here again. The wiring for the lights in the door trim is only done in the door. No cables need to be laid in the vehicle. Everything between the door control unit and the lamps. Also for the lamps in the outer door handles, which you should have due to the keyless retrofit
If you have identified cable colors or cables, it would be super nice if you could document this for those who still have to do this (I mean me )

Haha nice to see you too down in this long rabbit hole  im getting my harnesses in a couple of daya and am going to harvest and extract what i need, ill keep a look out and ask you if in uncertain on connector etc and ill give you the full details. All i know is that my rear doors are from high ilu spec.