I am planning on doing the LED doorhandles, footwell lighting, and basically changing all the gauges and interior lights to blue LED's. I am fairly confident I can do all of this myself. However I am wondering what can I do to make sure I will not cause any fires or overload anything? Use bigger amps for a start i'm guessing? Also isn't there something about a relay or something to stop me from overpowering my fuses? Although I am sure I can wire everything up, I don't know much about electricity and I want to make sure I don't end up burning my car up or anything, just want to have some safeguards in place and do it right the first time instead of just splicing a bunch of wires together.

 

LEDs are actually energy savers so you will be fine.

The only thing you need is load resistors if you plan on putting in turn signal LEDs.

The car will think that the bulb is dead even though it will be blinking because the LEDs have less watts than normal bulbs. With the resistors, the car is able to read and see that the lights are still functional.

 

Awesome. Now I won't be so nervous when i'm doing all this work. Last thing I wanted to do wass spend a couple days adding and replacing a bunch of lights just to have it fry something.

 

No problems.

I replaced all my bulbs like you are going to on the day I got mine and everything is still fine.

 

Any recommendations on where to get the LED's and wiring? Should I order online or just go rummage thru home depot or something?

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOO STAY AWAY FROM HOME DEPOT!

People here on Azine get their LEDs from, v-leds, superbrights, autoluminations, and even eBay.

I get mine on V-LEDs and only some things on eBay.

 

I found these on e-bay, being wide-angle I would assume I wouldn't have to do any shaving down correct? Also they are 12k-14k as oppossed to the 10k recommended in the Door Handle LED thread. Will these be recommended for replacing door interior lights and dome light as well?

http://cgi.ebay.com/50-Blue-light-Wi...d=p3286.c0.m14

 

Show me a pic.

I might be thinking of different ones.

 

 

Yes you'll need those for the door handles on the exterior.

You can also use those for the gauges.

 

Sweet thanks. I'm gonna grab em now, for 6 bucks you can't go wrong, plus I won't have to sand them down.

 

I got 4 led strips for my footwell lighting really cheap off ebay, around 12 bucks I think. All I did was tap into the dome light for all of them, I didnt have to add any thing like an amp.

 

I hope you picked them up for $12 total for the 4 of them.

 

yes

 

That is the same deal that I got when I ordered mine but I only got 2 of them. One for m trunk and the other for my girlfriend's trunk.

 

do you guys know of a DIY for upgrading the gauges in my car and what lights ill need