mine is amber b/c i have the 03 tail lights since my car is 03....

 

Autolumination.com is a good place. Shipping can take a few days, but I've never had problems with their products.

 

alright first thing. do you use the same bulb that you do for the license plate as the door courtesy lights? i thought you do, but when i installed my license plate light i was going to use the extra light for my dirver side door and it didnt work. i dont know if the bulb is bad or what. second thing how do you get the map light casing off? i can sorta snap it out but my rear view mirror is in the way for me to get it all the way unsnapped. and last thing here are my pictures:

the old


the new

 

Ok first you are correct, same lights for the license and courtesy, the bulbs are polarized so if they don't work one way flip it around and try it and it should work, a few people have thrown them away thinking they didn't work You know who you are, but anyways with the map light casing, do what you are doing on both sides and then you can either use a screw driver or your fingers from the sides and then you don't have to worry about the rear view mirror getting in the way, its pretty easy just don't force it. Let us know if you have any questions, I hope this helps!

 

i know that the bulbs are polarized. i put it in and it didnt work, then i took it back out and flipped it around and it still didnt work. that is why i was wondering if they took the same bulb. it really doesnt matter since i need another bulb for the passenger side i was just really trying to see how it looked. i love the license plate led. i think i just need to use a shorter flat head. i was using a long one that stopped right at the rear view mirror. thanks!!

 

Click for some pics.
https://acurazine.com/forums/car-parts-sale-361/2001-mitsubishi-eclipse-gt-5-speed-188749/

 

some questions...are LED tails worth it? is there really a big difference? and if so, how many LED's would you need 15? 18? And would it matter if you get White or Red? i have an 01 cl-s

 

The LED's are very noticeably brighter. If you look at the pics in this thread, its easy to tell. And don't use red...

 

I did all the interior lights..just wondering about TAIL LIGHTS

 

I used RED for all my lights...tail and turn...and it's extremely brighter.

why not use red? white is just as good.

4 dual filaments for the brake lights

2 one filament for the turn signals

 

i think he was reffering to the interior lights. correct me if im wrong.

 

hey greenmachine think u could post pics of the tail lights?

 

I can do that

 

lol...damn it...I

Could be...

 

+1

 

Ya i was talking about interior and license plate

 

i WTB yellow 1157 Luxeon LEDs. do they even produce 12v yellow LEDs for our cars? i was planning to put them in my ''fogs'' so they would be more like fogs. any ideas? i've looked around ebay and superbrightleds.com and haven't ran into any. or would the best possible solution to that is getting yellow tint. -___-" thats something i don't want to do.

 

What kind of bulbs are you using and how are they in the day time? I have 24-LED (12 front/12 sides) bulbs for my tails and they can be barely seen in the day light, which can be dangerous. I even had 45-LED bulbs for my turn signals and they too cannot be seen. I don't think the amount of LED matters!

They look so awesome and bright at night, though. But I still put the stock bulbs back on until I can find a brighter LED solution.

 

My LEd just burnt out tonight.. smacked as fuck driving home and out of no where, its Werrppp werrpp.... like 20 minutes ago on 355 (for u MDers)

bullshit. they said my lisence tag light was out i was like WTF. GAY.

they gave me a warning cuz i told them that they must of JUST burnt out....

they asked me to go strait home and gave me a written warning..

 

^^^ Thats weak, sorry bro, glad you got off with a warning, what does smacked as fuck mean?

 

was cheifin on some memorial day blueberrt with the homies. one of them i havent seen in over 1 year and henow drives a gold 350z witha widebody lol. i was like dayum..

 

yeah I'll join the club too, and order all of mine!

 

Good call Mike, its a very nice mod for cheap!

 

Make sure u order backsup tho cuz they wil burnout after a few months lol. actaully after 1 month loll..

out 4/6 leds burnt out since april 16th when i put them on.. now the two left just flicker like a strobe light.. aha

 

Which LED's did you get? Because those are the ones I don't want. I don't need any extra Negative attention brought to my car by having the lights blow in only a short time.

 

i bought the ones of Ebay.

 

I'm pretty sure it's the 24 LED bulbs that I bought. I don't remember I'd have to look at my Ebay account'

 

FINALLY ordered my LEDs for the courtesy, map, dome, and tag! now that i got the perfromance mods on my car, its time to do some appearance mods. next up is TL 6spd shift knob ... hope my LEDs dont burn out as quick as Dirty Type-s'

 

My license plate one started flashing like a strobe. Thank god someone on the road told me cause I dont wanna get pulled over for having a strobe party on my license plate.

I replaced it with another one from inside the car that was working perfectly and now that one is strobing. Anyone know what the deal may be?

 

I guess I prefer not to light up my license plate and bring attention to it for cops and people looking to write it down.

 

I've found that just about any LED bulb you buy on the interenet isn't made up to spec to be used in a vehicle. Most of the resistors that are used can't take the ammount of electrical load the vehicle is supplying to it, so they eventually start to fade, which in turn burns out the LEDs. Most bulbs you buy will come with a resistor with either not enough resistance or to low of amperage rating. Most of the resistors I see are 560ohm 1/4 watt, but the LEDs draw too much current for these resistors.

P = power developed in the resistor in watts (W)
R = resistance of the resistor in ohms
V = voltage across the resistor in volts (V)

P=(V^2)/(R)

So your power is roughly 14volts with the alternator running (12 volts from just the battery, which is what most LED bulbs are rated for). The calculated resistor would be 560ohms.

(14^2)/(560ohms)=0.35 watts

and here's with just the battery running the bulbs:

(12^2)/(560ohms)=0.257 watts

So the correct resistor that need to be used in this situation is a 1/2 watt 560ohm resistor, which are bigger than the 1/4 watt resistors, and usually won't fit in the bulb enclosures.

 

Well it was working fine for about 3 months and then it started. You would think that if it isnt up to factory spec, it would start strobing from the very beginning. Very weird.

 

Not neccisarily...the LEDs are only pulling .10watts more than what the 1/4watt resistors handling capacity is (.35watts vs .25watts). It's over, but not a lot over. So over the span of (like you said, three months) they begin to fade, and in return, you're LEDs start to flicker and eventually burn out because the resistor isn't doing its job anymore by limiting the current fed to the LED. One analogy could be running your engine past the red line. You can do it, it's alright, but if you keep doing every time you drive your car something bad's going to happen.

 

bill nye the science guy. aka gaping42

the guy knows his shit!

 

What ever happened to that guy anyway?

 

hey gaping, did you ever have any problems with the bulbs from your LED dash conversion going out??

 

Yeah I got around to doing this over the weekend. I did not like the attention brought to my plate. I put the stock bulbs back in.

I did swap my back up lights with the led bulbs though. That I like.

 

Are you asking about the replacement LED bulbs? If so, yes, and for the reasons I stated above. Anything that I've soldered myself with has not given me any trouble.

 

i was actually refering to the LED conversion you did in your dash. speedo, rpm, radio, A/C, etc... but i'll take that as a no they haven't burnt out considering you soldered them yourself?

 

I have had several replacement LED bulbs burn out on me in the past, which was with my first attempt at the conversion. After realizing what was going on, I began to solder and glue in my own LEDs and haven't had any problems with them.