Illuminated sill pix?

[KfabR8]

Does anyone happen to have (or is willing to take) a picture of the back side of an illuminated door sill? The sill will pop loose with little effort and it's not a damage causing maneuver. Just lift the outer edge and it will pop right out.

I would like to see how Audi is going about doing the illuminated section and how invasive that section is to the main sill body. I'm up to something...

Thanks in advance.

[conm]

What are you up too.......Also if a loom is not there how difficult is it to retrofit.
Rgs conm

[KfabR8]

What are you up too.......

'Tis a secret.

Also if a loom is not there how difficult is it to retrofit.
Rgs conm

No clue on that aspect. My new car will have the illuminated sills, so the wire harness will already be there.

I just need pix of the back side of an illuminated sill to verify a hunch and/or help me decide on my direction with this thought.

[conm]

Am intrigued with your secret....what are you up to

[KfabR8]

I made mention in another thread that I'd stepped away from this little project. Tonight, the desire bit me again and I decided to dive a little deeper into something.

I have to give Rich at OEM credit for this idea too.

When I purchased my 09 from Rich, we did a few mods. One of the things I wanted was carbon door sills. Then I saw the lighted sills and Rich and I had a couple of conversations about which direction to go. The carbon sills won out as there was quite a bit of wiring required for the lighted sills and as I recall the lighted sills were more expensive than the carbon units - don't hold me to that, though.

Anyhow, Rich threw out the idea of hybridizing a lighted sill with a carbon sill. It was more money than I wanted to spend.

The idea never left my pea brain, though.

On Dec 28 of 2010 I walked into my favorite Audi dealership, sat down with a friend of mine, who happens to be a salesman and ordered this beautiful Samoa Orange V8. As I went through the options, checking this and that I saw "Lighted sills" - CHECK! - and somewhere in a dark recess of my gray matter I hear "you have carbon sills in the 09".

When I picked up the car last week, one of the things I had to do right off the bat was check out how the lighted sills work.

I popped one off and took a knife to the sealing compound and started inspecting. I peeled up a couple of layers of plastic and such and then got scared about damaging it. I left well enough alone.

The lighted section is a pretty cool thing - it's an LED "compartment" with a clear plastic diffuser that has little marks machined into the flat of it. The LEDs point at the end of the diffuser and the machine marks catch the light and make it come out of the long flat side of the diffuser. It's what gives the back lighting of the sills the honeycomb look.

This lighted section sits behind a white semi-opaque layer that sits under the R8 logo and "loop" in the display. Pretty trick way of doing it.

So, as to what I was up to, please refer to this thread:
How to illuminate your Carbon Door Sills.