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Replacing interior lights with LED's

Old May 9, 2012 | 11:44 AM
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I have the led interior lights. They give off a nice bluish white light. Look great. Have had mine in for several months now and they are Still working. Also got the led license plate bulbs. Same result. Nice white light instead of the yellow. I would say neither are any brighter than the stock bulbs but look way better. Nice upgrade for little money.
I did try some led brake lights awhile back. They were dimmer than the original bulbs. Ill post a couple pictures tonight.
Old May 9, 2012 | 08:03 PM
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Here are some pictures of the lights. The last one is the license plate lights. They are brighter than the picture shows. The one picture shows the difference between the led's and the original bulbs.
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Old May 14, 2012 | 03:52 AM
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depends what year

if 2010, just ebay search festoon LED

I got all mine for $1 a piece

same for the license bulbs (194) and even the tail lights (3157) and reverse lights (also 194)

I would say, 80% of the bulbs are good at that price range. some are a slight purple tint, but hardly noticeable
Old Apr 21, 2013 | 11:44 AM
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Just replaced my dome bulbs with LED's but having trouble getting the dome light cover back on. Anyone have this problem?
Old May 18, 2013 | 04:09 AM
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Ebay

And LED's suck. Get SMD's





typically the store will have LED's which suck.
Old Jul 21, 2015 | 05:41 AM
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I have recently added LEDs to my dome light. I have also changed the wiring a bit: now all three lamps light up simultaneously when opening the doors, giving more light to the forward area. While driving, the reading lamps still can be used independently.

I had to use diodes to make it work (for wiring see picture; I basically cut the two black wires which connect the reading lamp switches with their respective lamp socket in half and added the red wire with the diodes, connecting the red wire to the festoon socket): 1N4001, which are good for up to 1A. The festoon bulb I replaced with a LED panel as there is plenty of room in there. To add the oversized LED reading lamps, I had to move their sockets a bit further away from the central dome light wall.

It's pretty bright now inside the car compared to before :-)



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