Has anyone added any type of rear seat lighting to their F56 - footwell, reading, ambient or dome? It's pathetic that there is nothing back there and it's pitch black at night.

 

TIL some people can actually fit in the back of a F56

 

I solved that problem by deleting my rear seat.

 

No, but it would be pretty easy to pull the side panels and install some LED's. However when driving at night I would certainly be distracted by light in the back.

 

You actually HAD to delete the rear seat, to install a roll bar, cause you needed an anchor for your seat belts!!

 

Yeah, well, tomatos, potahtos.

 

I think the cleanest way to get it done is to drop the headliner and cut out a hole, wire everything and so on. Lot of work and it might look ugly unless you can find something that would look good. Probably not worth it. there's tons of space between the roof sheet metal and the headliner. I stuffed mine with radiant barrier and it reduced a lot of rain noise and the car feels less cold when it's cold outside.

 

I was thinking of adding some footwell lighting in the side of the rear center console by tapping into the front footwell lighting circuit. My fear is that the F56 uses a footwell module to control the lighting functions in addition to other things (similar to the R56) and that tapping into one of the circuits may cause errors or malfunctions of some sort with the module functions. Gone are the days of just tapping into an simple incandescent dome light circuit and being done with it.

The other thing I can do, which would be less of a risk of errors, is to tap into the 12v power port in the cargo area and mount a reading light in the C pillar. Unfortunately, that would not go on and off with opening a door.