New Bulbs:

CHAMPS Amber LED 194 (upper and lower corners)

MTEC 3300K Ion Yellow H3 (fog lights)

Comments: The LEDs look a little too red for me. I hope this doesn't attract the popo. Also, I wanted yellow bulbs for my fogs, but I didn't want them too yellow like the Lexus fogs. These are a little to pale for my tastes.

I'll give them a try for a while.


BTW: My camera sucks!


I already had the 194s installed before taking a pic of the package!
























Here's my Amber 7440 (non-LED) turn signal for comparison.












2 1/2 year old indiglo gauges.



I love my new head unit!

 

Very Nice!!!

 

Rick

The yellows are ok. Im not feeling the reds.

Nice head unit.

You still my dog.

 

Little bit too much color goin on there i think. I love the HID's, but i dont think it matches well with the red corners and yellow fogs, IMHO. Everything else about your car is

 

Yeah, it's a lot of colors.

The corners are NOT red, but Amber. However, they look more reddish (the camera makes them look very red) than I'd like. The 8th pic probably represents the true color (this one):




The problem with HIDs is that there's no bulbs that will match them (194s and H3s).

I had PIAA bulbs (which came the closest), but they still looked yellow when compared to the HIDs.





I'll try to get a better camera for more accurate pics.

 

hey dust, get some daylight pictures

 

I think the leds are probably too red as well - I don't think the color of the new fogs is that bad though Rick...i kinda like it

 

i like your car very muchy!

 

nice rick



those red lights could be a ticket later for impersonating a police officer, i know someone who got this ticket in california and it was ridiculous


but still nice

 

Yea, those are a wee bit too red for my tastes. Everything else is coo tho!

 

Episode II... I like hte head unit to much colors going on. But if you had just red and hit I think it would look real nice and it isn't very ordinary good choice... nice.

 

Those corners look super red. The other bulbs look nice though.

 

btw, dust, thanks for the cubby hole, I got it yesterday

 

rick.........it looked way better the old way......i know youre bored and wanna do something to the car....we've all had those days in autozone lookin at bulbs.....but really, it looked better before

 

Good work..I like it!!!

 

Thanks, everyone for your feedback.

Overall, I must admit that I don't like the lights. I think I was trying to convince myself to like them

Scott's suggestion that I take daytime pics clinched my decision. I removed the LEDs.

Even during the daylight, the LEDs look red! :thumbsdn:

I don't need ANY more problems with the police! So, I put the PIAA 194s back in.

The biggest turn off was the base color of the LEDs. They're ORANGE! This looks like shit when looking at the corners while the lights are off.




I'm keeping the Ion Yellow fog lights right now. The main reason I went to all of this trouble was that one of my PIAA H3 bulbs blew about 3 weeks ago. So, all I have right now are these Yellow ones. I definitely want yellow bulbs for the fog lights, but I may get a brighter yellow. These bulbs look to much like regular Halogen H3s.

 

You're welcome!


BTW: DAMN! That was fast. I sent it on Thursday.

 

that looks wicked...

 

I think you made the right decision.

 

how are the hid's even without projectors?

 

Bright as hell. I'm sure they bother oncoming traffic more than with projectors because the beam is much more spread out than with a projector.

There's no comparison with any Xenon type bulb. The HIDs are much brighter, have better color, and look way cool!



I just ordered some "bright" white LEDs for the corners. I'll give them a try.

 

Hey Rick, if you want your fogs to be really yellow. get the Piaa Ion Crystal (Yellow). My brother have the Mtec yellow in his ride and I have the Piaa's and mines more YELLOW and bright...

But I have them on my high beam..

 

Rick, where did you get the LED's from?

I was looking into some yellow ones for the turn sigs and parking lights (7440 & 168/194) at autodynamic, but they are always out of stock.

 

Jamie,

I got the 194s from autodynamic.com. Yeah, the 7440s are ALWAYS out of stock!

 

I almost got them, but they're really expensive!

 

SO funny! Rick, I just swapped all my hyperwhites to amber again! Since I have the HIDs, the hyperwhites are a joke in all the other locations. SO I went Amber and it looks so much better!

 

i did the same thing on my car.

either ambers or yellow's. look alot better than hyper-whites...

 

nice!

 

Looks good Dust. Everytime I try to catch you in mods, you always get like 2 or 3 more mods. Wait for me.

 

hyperwhites are :ghey:

 

Rick -

I've got Eurolite (spelling?) yellow fogs for mine. Check out my yahoo pictures at the bottom of the page look at bottom of page

I think they were $30 shipped

 

here are my yellow fogs..

http://community.webshots.com/album/65452931kfOPLv

 

dude, those Mtec's suck ass. i had those on my car and they burnt after 2 months. i hope you didn't pay more than 20 bucks for those.

 

Catch up, slow-poke! :P



I think I'm gonna spring for the PIAA Ion Crystal (yellow) fog lights (H3).

I'm going to try out the "white" LED corner bulbs (194) that I ordered. If they suck, then I'm going for the "regular" amber 194s for the corners.

SHIT!!!!

All this hassle, just to accomodate my fucking HIDs!

 

ya i went through all that too, don't buy any LED's i had the super whites, and they went out, the color didn't match, no bulbs really matched for me, so what i did was just not use the side bulbs on the main headlight, i have the piaa ion fogs, their not as IS300 like as you would think, they're yellow, with some odd hue of green? i think that's the bulb, but majority of it is yellow, i was thinking about trying the raybrig yellows after this pair of piaa's

 

My GAY bulbs arrived today.

I'll install them on Thursday, and take pics, Thursday night.


If they suck; I'm gonna install pink fucking bulbs all over my car!

 

FUCK! :angry:

I order Amber and I get red (see above). Now I order white, and they're fucking blue!

I'm buying stock amber bulbs! FUCK THIS! :thumbsdn:

 

matching is hard to do...i recommend taking out the top 168 bulbs, and putting amber 168's on the bottom, it looks badass with just parking lights

my hid's just got jacked up too, my driver side has a different color then my passenger side, does this mean the bulb is about to die? does anyone know if i can purchase some kind of OEM bulbs with a 9006 base somehow and ignite it with my current hella ballasts?