How To: Convert LX Overhead Console to EX Overhead Console

alrightay! I have begun this project finally and its actually rather easy so far. all I've done is laid out the wiring (after finally understanding what wires do what, which I will explain) now so far what I've done is:

routed wire for the ambient light to the glovebox
routed wire for the door switch to the middle of the driver side A pillar

what needs to be done:
get the overhead console with the ambient light
connect the wires and what not
test it!

the wires you need to find/what they do:
red/black: its in the glovebox, for the parking lights
green/red: driver side A pillar, for the switch where you can choose whether you want the map lights to come on when you open the door
black: ground
red: ground
blue/white: constant power
green: from maplight connector to homelink connector
Here's a picture of the wires:

so here are the steps so far
1. remove the glove box to find the red/black wire

the wire i'm going to use is the one that goes to the light in the glovebox which turns on with the parking lights.
2. run a wire from the overhead console down the passenger side A pillar to the glove box

down the A pillar:

to the glovebox:

its the red wire!

3. remove the driver side A pillar to find the green/red wire

4. run a wire from the overhead console to the driver side A pillar

wire is green

5. have enough wire at the overhead console so that way you know you've got enough wire to work with(i probably have to much but the more the better)

6. solder the green wire to the green/red wire

7. run a new wire to the driver side A Pillar to connect to the black wire for a ground point then solder them!

I used the same color wire as the one that's connected to the green/red so I taped the end for the ground wire to be able to tell them apart

8. solder the blue/white wires of the maplight connector and the homelink connector together with the white/blue from the existing harness

9. solder the red and black wires together with the green wire thats connected to the black(ground) wire in the driver's side A-Pillar

10. solder the red/black wire from the homelink connector to the black wire(changed it from when I hooked my fogs up to run with the parking lights) that is soldered to the red/black wire in the glovebox

11. solder the green/red from the homelink connector to the green wire that is soldered to the green/red wire in the drivers side A-Pillar

12. solder the two remaining green wires (one on the homelink connector, the other on the maplight connector) together!

the finished product!!!

and make sure everything works...I don't know why but my door trigger doesn't work. It did before everything was put back together, but it's not a big deal to me.

and put everything back together!

BAM! That's everything! It worked for me so it should work for you. Just make sure you SOLDER every connection for the best contact. Let me know what you guys think about it. Like what I should maybe add to it and advice on what I could explain more.

thanks for looking!

Let me know if I should resize the pictures!

Information was transfered from Gen7Accord.com.