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replacing my interior lights with leds?

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Forum Name: Lights, Neon, LEDs, HIDs
Forum Discription: Under Car Lighting, Strobe Lights, Fog Lights, Headlights, HIDs, DRL, Tail Lights, Brake Lights, Dashboard Lights, WigWag, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=107782
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Topic: replacing my interior lights with leds?

Posted By: bigjohnny
Subject: replacing my interior lights with leds?
Date Posted: September 28, 2008 at 9:08 PM

I got to thinking that I would like some blue LEDs on my interior.

I have a TON of ultra bright LEDs, but how would i go about mounting them in my dome light, and in the light sockets for the "feet lights" ??



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Posted By: still_walkin
Date Posted: October 01, 2008 at 6:34 AM
when i wanted to add leds to mine i used the factory sizes bulbs and googled the size withe the color led i wanted on ebay heres a link to get the bulb size https://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/LampReplacementGuide/

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Posted By: 04nata
Date Posted: October 01, 2008 at 11:06 AM
so if I replace for instance the fog light from the stock 9006 to the 9006XV, do I need to do anything to the power supply or the socket?, these are not the "mostest" bright and high power, but they are halogen




Posted By: still_walkin
Date Posted: October 01, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Honsetly if you found the replacement bulb and its oem fit then your shouldnt have to modify the bulb housing but I could be wrong . When I converted mine they were direct oem fit and the looked the same except the were leds. If I'm wrong someone chime in.

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1993 sdv
Alpine 4x6 6x9 5 1/4 swr-10d4
alpine v60
12.5 VGA flip down
Nettop pc w/10" touch screen
78nova
5-re audio 5x7 ,10" sub &
Xtx-500.5
"Take the faceplate off get the jumperpack"




Posted By: 04nata
Date Posted: October 01, 2008 at 11:48 AM

04nata wrote:

so if I replace for instance the fog light from the stock 9006 to the 9006XV, do I need to do anything to the power supply or the socket?, these are not the "mostest" bright and high power, but they are halogen

SORRY,,,, I was talking about headlights and fog lights, (maybe in the wrong place)





Posted By: bigjohnny
Date Posted: October 07, 2008 at 7:11 AM
Wow, that links is cool.

Anyway i did some looking, and couldnt find any LED replacements for my vehicle (Maybe im still wrong) so for my dome light, i soldered on 8 LEDs to a small PCB, added 2 12ohm resistors, and took the metal caps off the OEM bulb and soldered those onto the back of the PCB.

Now my dome light is a beautiful blue using a custom light that i made myself.

Ill take some pics later on.

This just snaps into place and is actually very bright, blue and still allows you to see stuff clearly.




Posted By: bigjohnny
Date Posted: October 07, 2008 at 5:31 PM
www.superbrightleds.com ..... this is the place, they have all of the automotive bulbs..... I wish i had found this a little sooner lol.





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