well, several months ago I had several bulbs went out on the HVAC, cruise control on steering wheels and some others. So I I replaced the bulbs on the HVAC with those leds from vleds; didn't get to do the one on the steering wheel. That was 3 months ago. Today I noticed that some of the bulbs on the HVAC started to dim when first turned on and after driving around for an hour they became brighter and dimmed again. And the bulb that wasn't replaced on the steering wheel is now working. And my hid also seem to be dimmer than usual, those are the morimoto 3five that were also put on 3 months ago. I'm suspecting that my battery is not supplying enough current to these components, please correct me if I'm wrong. I also installed the piaa xtreme white plus for my fogs last week. Are they drawing too much power? They are 55w each I think.
And my battery is stock acura. Dunno if it has been replaced by the previous owner or not. Oh, it's a tl 05 btw

 

anyone? I don't wanna disassemble my whole dash out and redo the bulbs. So any advices or confirmations are appreciated. Thank you.

 

Incorrect. If it's not bright when the car is running, it's NOT the battery. Alternator takes over when engine is on so that's not an issue. These bulbs are very fragile they go out all the time. When one goes out, just swap the whole series in that area so you only use to do it once.

 

I suspected as much. But it's weird though. Because the bulbs that I used are not all the same. 2 that I bought from the autolumination and they are the top of the line that they offer. The others are cheapos from vleds.

I can tell because I compared those bulbs and the plastic from vleds is just average as compared to the ones from autolumination. But one of the 2 from autolumination and 2 of the ones from vleds are now extremely dim or even not enough to shine through.

I don't think 2 different brands can go out at the same time like this which is why it just baffled me when it happened.