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Alright, this will be my second foray into LED lighting for this car, but this time I'm hoping to get a little input from others to help me out.

 

The last time I did this, I bought two LED Array bulbs to try out in my front turn signals, only to learn all about how terrible the stock reflectors are at focusing the "narrow-range" LED output correctly. Those bulbs ended up going into the reverse lights, where they did wonders.

 

So now I'm looking into trying this again, but only with the bulbs in the car that would actually benefit:

 

- Dome and map lights.

- License plate bulbs.

- Upper hatch brake light bar

 

Those seem to be all the bulbs I can think of where LEDs would actually benefit. My question is, has anyone here upgraded any of those with bulbs from, say, superbrightleds.com, and if so, which bulbs did they use, and how did they turn out? There are so many options, including some extra large panels for things like the dome lights, but I wanted to actually get people's impressions before I spent $50 on lights.

 

I am also considering upgrading the dash lights with LEDs, but I do NOT want to end up with the "focused-light" effect on the dash where some parts glow really bright and other parts are barely lit. Anyone have any input for me on any of this stuff?

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I can't really give you any input on upgrading the lights with LEDs...But I can tell you that if you did your gauge cluster with LEDs, some spots would be brighter then others

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I can't really give you any input on upgrading the lights with LEDs...But I can tell you that if you did your gauge cluster with LEDs, some spots would be brighter then others

 

Which is true. But hasn't bothered me.

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Ive done the following

 

dome

map

sunvisor's

lights on the bottom corner of the front doors

gauges

license plate

 

I personally have had no problems with anything. I also feel that the extra large panel for the dome light is overkill. I have 10% tint on all my windows and when I crack open a door, I can easily see inside. As for the gauges ive had no problems with the focusing at all.

 

These are what I used for the gauges

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2FWLED-x.htm#photos

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2F74-x.html#photos

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Ive done the following

 

dome

map

sunvisor's

lights on the bottom corner of the front doors

gauges

license plate

 

I personally have had no problems with anything. I also feel that the extra large panel for the dome light is overkill. I have 10% tint on all my windows and when I crack open a door, I can easily see inside. As for the gauges ive had no problems with the focusing at all.

 

These are what I used for the gauges

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2FWLED-x.htm#photos

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2F74-x.html#photos

Would these work for replacing the backlighting in the a/c unit? most of the bulbs have blown in mine :/

 

If so, which one?

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Would these work for replacing the backlighting in the a/c unit? most of the bulbs have blown in mine :/

 

If so, which one?

 

Yes lots of people do that (iv done it too).

 

Go here:

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/vehicle_led_bulb_finder.php?utm_source=Car%2BBulb%2BFinder%2B%28Side%2BForm%29&utm_medium=Car%2BBulb%2BFinder%2B%28Side%2BForm%29&utm_campaign=Car%2BBulb%2BFinder%2B%28Side%2BForm%29

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Actually I just remembered I have one of the bulbs out at home so might bring it in to work tomorrow (since it's SPEND LOTS OF MONEY ON BILLS DAY AKA PAY DAY) and see if I can match it to order a set, wonder how many i'll need to do all of them for ac and dash
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