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Additional lighting in the rear hatch door for the cargo area.


Anybody who has owned a Commander for any period of time knows that the rear hatch/cargo area is very lighting deficient at night.

Here is a modification that I picked up from someone over on the jeepcommander.com forum where I am a moderator;

One issue that I ran into was that the interior hatch light had two wires going to it.

One is red with a white stripe, the other is yellow with an orange stripe.

I was assuming that the Yellow wire with the Orange stripe was the ground - but I had a little hesitation, because obviously, ground wires are typically black about 98% of the time.

Fortunately I found a wiring diagram for a 2006 Commander which confirmed the yellow wire with the orange stripe is the ground for all interior dome lights as I suspected.

DOME LIGHT SUPERVISION (-) YELLOW/ORANGE At Courtesy Light

I had the interior panel off of the rear hatch door yesterday checking out the wiring harness and looking to see how it's routed and trying to figure out exactly how I want to wire the LED's in.

When I pulled the rear hatch interior light out, 2 of the plastic tabs on the cover of the light snapped off, the whole light housing (which of course is plastic) is very brittle probably from heat & age, so, I ordered a new one from the dealership.

I just finished installing and wiring the rear hatch LED lights....what a pain in the arse that was...I had to pull the entire interior hatch panel off to be able to do the wiring....it SUCKED!!!

rboots (a member on another Jeep forum) said this was easy........well, in my opinion, it was very tedious.

It probably took me about 2 1/2 hours from start to finish.

The wire those LED's come wired with is extremely thin and somewhat difficult to strip and splice.

I had to add additional wire to the wire the LED's came with to make it long enough to comfortably splice into the existing rear hatch courtesy light wiring.

I couldn't find any way to snake the LED wiring through the rear hatch interior door panel without taking it off - for me, there just was not enough space to work.

Once I took the rear hatch interior panel off completely, it made things somewhat simpler - although I did break one of the plastic clips that holds it in place.

Fortunately I had some left over clips from my old door molding that I took off yesterday, that I saved - which will temporarily substitute nicely for the one I broke today, until I can order a new one.

But it's done, it works and it looks pretty damn good if I do say so myself, can't wait to see it tonight.

I also replaced the rear hatch light that I broke with the new one that I ordered from the dealership and replaced the original bulb it came with with an LED.

A couple of daytime pics:

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Night-time pics:

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Last edited by Big Blue XK, 6/17/2019, 2:42 pm


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