What did you do to your Clarity Today

Just received and installed the SuperBright LEDs I posted about. They were the exact size of the OEM filament “fuse” size lights. Went in perfect and took all of 5 min. They are much brighter than the OEMs and I do not find them bluish at all. I’d call them cool white. They are just slightly whiter than our convenience lights which I thought were white but look slightly warmer than these.

One thing to note: these LEDs are polarity specific. Touch them to the contacts before pressing them in place and if they don’t light up just reverse them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Also my original instructions on removal and reinstalling were incorrect. Removal is as stated from prying on cut out on outside top edge but you reinstall by putting the tabs on the top of the cover in first and then you snap in the bottom.

Here are some before and after pix. My apologies for the over exposure and blooming of the light intensity. In real life the OEMs are dim and the LEDs bright. But the colors are representative of how they actually appear. Also included a pix of the opaque cover so you wil know what you’re prying against. I went slow with a dental pik and didn’t break any tabs off.

Bottom line-I don’t think they are blue, just cool white, and so I don’t think the Missus will make you sleep on the sofa if you install these. I’m very happy w them.

 

Kind of strange these are the only lights in the vehicle not LED's - must have run short in the parts bin...

 

Things I have Added

I finally got time to finish taking pictures of things I added. The first picture shows the pair of 5" LCD monitors for the side view cameras. These monitors are far enough from the vents that they have little impact. Their combined width closely matches the width of the large monitor. When off, they are unobtrusive.
They are held in by double sided tape. (I still have some cosmetic work to do.)



Also shown is the control head for my VHF/UHF Ham radio. (It's the orange screen in the foreground.) I use double sided tape for that also.
The transmitter is under the passenger seat. The microphone is stored in the cup holder.

The next picture shows the rear of the car with the two side view cameras and the Ham radio antenna. It uses double sided tape also, since there is not much magnetic around.


The next thing I'm planning to add is a ($6) engine hour meter under the hood. There is a good discussion of this under another Clarity topic on this Forum.

In also thinking about some kind of backup sound device, such as a gong or ding-ding rather than the loud beep on a truck. My wife says its eerie when the car silently emerges from the garage.

Cheers,

 

Installed Honda puzzle locks on all 4 wheels. Peace of mind for high crime area for only $29. I looked up our tires and they are going for $208 x 4 and I don’t even want to know how expensive 4 wheels would be!
BTW, the torque spec for our Clarity wheel lug nut is the same for all Honda’s - 80 ft/lbs. I used my torque wrench and I never use impact wrenches for lug nuts.

 

Interesting. My Clarity came with wheel locks installed and I didn't pay for them and they aren't listed on the window sticker as an option. I thought they were standard equipment.

 

nice guide. the only thing I'm not really clear on is what fuses did you put in which slots on the fuse tap adapter and which direction did you insert it back into the fuse box? If you or anyone else could take a picture of the box after install that would be terrific. thanks

 

After reading other guides I was worried about putting it in the right way because others have said if you put it in “upside down” the device would still work but the circuit breaker wouldn’t work anymore.

 

great, glad i could help avoid a disaster. I have the A119 camera as well which I'm pretty sure draws only 1 Amp since it works in a USB plug. What size fuse do you use for it?

 

Thanks a lot, I’ll give it a shot. Any reason in particular that you used that fuse? If I’m looking at your picture correctly that’s #21, labeled ACG, whatever that means.

 

Sure, what I meant was why that slot? Does it matter?

 

Noob here!

Trying to hardwire A119 to my Clarity.

Which fuse slot should I use that will work with parking mode?

Thanks!!!

 

I had those too. My guess--they did the wheel locks (and winter mats for me) to jack up the price of the car. They then negotiated with me without realizing which car they were selling, so they were not on the list for me either.

 

I added these hooks (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074R8N4B8/) to the trunk last week

and used this tap (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BFRWC3X/) to tap the mirror power as a switched source for my A118C dashcam (with some adapters for Micro to Mini USB and longer wire-I've already spoken to the manufacturer about some of this)



(in my prior car, I just sourced an extra mirror harness and built my own power coupling for the dashcam, but I could only find one side of the mirror connector online).

I should have placed the camera outside of my EZ-Pass, so I can see its working in a glance. Now I need to duck under the mirror to verify the flashing light--I'll move it eventually

 

Try this thread for answers on switched vs unswitched breakers: https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/fuse-map-and-which-positions-are-switched-vs-always-on.3794/