New LEDs. Wow! Bright!
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For the front corner lights, these were mentioned as the recommended amber bulbs:
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...81175-1-2.html
How about these?
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...40085-1-2.html
Did anybody try to use them? I wonder if it is better to get these instead of the "flat" ones. Not sure which would work better (be brighter) in our corner lenses.
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...81175-1-2.html
How about these?
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...40085-1-2.html
Did anybody try to use them? I wonder if it is better to get these instead of the "flat" ones. Not sure which would work better (be brighter) in our corner lenses.
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So i just bought 6 in led strip lights for under my seat and my footwells. I am also wanting my side markers to blink with my corners. Aipex8 can you explain a little more about how you did that. Also, what bulbs do the side markers take? What should I hook my white footwells that I want to come on when the door is open? Im thinking of hooking the blue footwell into the cigarette lighter if that works. Is there anything close to under the seat for the under the seat leds to come on when the doors are closed? Thanks
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I installed a couple of week ago the same led bulbs on your first post for my, map, doors, and roof and everytime I close any door all the light start blinking... do that happen to you too? There is any way to avoid that?
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For the front corner lights, these were mentioned as the recommended amber bulbs:
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...81175-1-2.html
How about these?
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...40085-1-2.html
Did anybody try to use them? I wonder if it is better to get these instead of the "flat" ones. Not sure which would work better (be brighter) in our corner lenses.
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/C...81175-1-2.html
How about these?
http://www.v-leds.com/Exterior-LED/P...40085-1-2.html
Did anybody try to use them? I wonder if it is better to get these instead of the "flat" ones. Not sure which would work better (be brighter) in our corner lenses.
So i just bought 6 in led strip lights for under my seat and my footwells. I am also wanting my side markers to blink with my corners. Aipex8 can you explain a little more about how you did that. Also, what bulbs do the side markers take? What should I hook my white footwells that I want to come on when the door is open? Im thinking of hooking the blue footwell into the cigarette lighter if that works. Is there anything close to under the seat for the under the seat leds to come on when the doors are closed? Thanks
As far as the footwells, there is a good DIY thread on how to hook them up to come on when the doors are open. It has pics and explains it better than I can. For footwells that stay on when the lights are on, I recomend tapping into the ashtray light. It's centrally located, so one tap and you can run to both front footwells and probably down the center console to the seats too. That location also allows the dimmer **** to dim the footwells.
When the door closes and when the interior lights fade out, there is a slight flicker. I don't know if there is a way to disable that. If your's are actually blinking, there may be something wrong.
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Well today I attempted my blue footwell lights and blue lights under the seat. It took me a total of 6 hours. 1 or so hours of it was going to the store which I head to do 3 times. I used fully insulated male and female connectors on everything. I had a little bit of difficulty making the wiring harness so that the 4 sets of leds fit on the same wire as the cigarette lighter light. Does anyone have a better way of wiring the leds up? I also installed the resistors for the back corner bulbs so they dont blink rapidly. I installed them by hooking up a wire tap on both the green and black wire. I installed one end of the resistor to the wire taped green wire and then the other to the wire taped black. It slowed the blink down but is this the best way to do this? I am wanting to having my blinker and corner to alternate next. I think I know what your talking about aipex8 but still kinda fuzzy.
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Pbjose397 I installed my footwell leds today and I tap into the glove conpartment light that way they will be on evertime I turn on the lights, I remove the whole center console to run all the cables from the back seat and driver side I connect all the leds to one wire... one for the negative and another one for the positive and tap into the glow box, took me about 2-3 hours
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When i do my white lights i might do the glove box. That is a good idea. I tried connecting all the wires negative and positive wires together then back the the main wire but 4 18gauge wires ended up being pretty bulks so i scrapped that idea.
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Well today I attempted my blue footwell lights and blue lights under the seat. It took me a total of 6 hours. 1 or so hours of it was going to the store which I head to do 3 times. I used fully insulated male and female connectors on everything. I had a little bit of difficulty making the wiring harness so that the 4 sets of leds fit on the same wire as the cigarette lighter light. Does anyone have a better way of wiring the leds up? I also installed the resistors for the back corner bulbs so they dont blink rapidly. I installed them by hooking up a wire tap on both the green and black wire. I installed one end of the resistor to the wire taped green wire and then the other to the wire taped black. It slowed the blink down but is this the best way to do this? I am wanting to having my blinker and corner to alternate next. I think I know what your talking about aipex8 but still kinda fuzzy.
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Well as of right now every light is a led besides the front corner lights and the reverse lights. What i am talking about it is i would like the corner to blink then the side marker and then back to the corner. If that is possible
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Hey Aipex! Hopefully you can make it out to a Dick's Meet sometime!
WHen you got the turn signal bulbs, did you have to install the resistor as well?
WHen you got the turn signal bulbs, did you have to install the resistor as well?
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makristal: I did the LED turn signals last weekend and you will need the resistors unless you want them to blink annoyingly fast.
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The easy way to fix it is by adding a small capacitor between the input and ground, but this isn't possible because of size constraints.
#1021
The resistors are fairly easy to install since they come with wire taps. You just got to get 3m double sided tape stick them somewhere such as the trunck right by the tail light. I took my first ride last night with new footwell and seat lights and they are sick. The only complaint iv noticed so far is having a glare off my tinting on the drivers window. On thing it really effects is seeing into the side mirror. But yes it gets better if you dim the switch or open the window. 194 bulb went down yesterday a day after i installed it. Vled has great customer service and the best products so its not a big deal. Just sucks its in by far one of the crappest spots, the dome light.
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V-LEDS is coming out with some new bulbs, starting with some foglight applications (first batch will be 9005 and 9006, but I'm sure H11's won't be far behind). I'm not sure how they work yet, but you can switch them from white to other colors (blue, red or green). Check the pics:
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