2025 Land Cruiser offering optional liftgate lighting 😡

[n0m@d]

May have found a possible solution. CA Tuned Offroad came out with a shelf and you can run a Baja designs dome light for the cargo area!

@Luigi absolutely off-topic for this thread, but how do you find rear mirror view visibility with this shelf?

 

[Luigi]

You convinced me to go this route! Can you provide any more information on the exact wires & wire that you spliced into? Thanks!

Hi. I just extended the positive and negative leads from the Baja to splice in the rear dome light. Use my coupon code “2yotas1fam” to save a lil money

 

[papa_tonez]

Hi. I just extended the positive and negative leads from the Baja to splice in the rear dome light. Use my coupon code “2yotas1fam” to save a lil money

Nice! Does it turn on automatically when the dome light is on? Or do you need to press the button every time?

 

[Luigi]

@Luigi absolutely off-topic for this thread, but how do you find rear mirror view visibility with this shelf?

Not really off topic, it’s relevant for sure. But honestly, it doesn’t impact my view, I have the rear view camera so I don’t see the shelf.

With that being said, it’s at the same height if not very similar to the other shelf’s out in the market.

 

[Luigi]

Nice! Does it turn on automatically when the dome light is on? Or do you need to press the button every time?

Depends which light you get. If you get a light form Baja with the push button you have to manually press the button to turn on, and it will turn off automatically when the rear dome lights go off. If you get the Baja light with no button, then it should trigger automatically in sync with the dome lights and turn off.

 

[papa_tonez]

Finally installed the CA tuned rack and Baja light today. I'm happy with how it turned out. And I'm glad to have an empty trunk floor with all my daily carry stuff hidden away. The extra light is great. My garage is dark so it's helpful to see what I'm actually doing back there.

One thing worth noting is that the rear bottom right dome light is only white and green wires. And white == positive, green == negative(not ground because it's low voltage). Which ends up connecting to the black/red wires of the Baja light as red to white, black to green.