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Old 09-10-2010, 10:37 AM
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Has anyone had any luck replacing the daytime running light bulbs to LED. Looking at doing so, and cant find much info on people doing it.
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Has anyone had any luck replacing the daytime running light bulbs to LED. Looking at doing so, and cant find much info on people doing it.
I coudnt find much info on replacing the daytime running lights (DRL) to LED so I just went ahead and just did it. I purchased my bulbs through autolumination.com. They told me which bulbs I needed and were a lot of help with questions I had. So here are some pics of before and after. I have a few pics of the install if anyone would like to see what needs to be done.
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When you replaced the DRL with the LED did you get any error codes or were they error free LED?
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nice, i just bought the 9$ bulb off ebay that changed the color of the light. Its not as bright as yours but still looks pretty good, got that white/blue tint that i like.
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Originally Posted by spencaswimmer87
When you replaced the DRL with the LED did you get any error codes or were they error free LED?
Yea. I had to install "load equalizers" on the wires of the bulbs. They add resistance, and fool the car into thinking it has normal bulbs in place. Once they were put in though, they worked great. No error codes. The only problem with them is, they get extremely hot so you have to mount them outside the light bulb housing with not much around them.
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Yea. I had to install "load equalizers" on the wires of the bulbs. They add resistance, and fool the car into thinking it has normal bulbs in place. Once they were put in though, they worked great. No error codes. The only problem with them is, they get extremely hot so you have to mount them outside the light bulb housing with not much around them.
Where did you purchase your load resistors from?
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Originally Posted by spencaswimmer87
Where did you purchase your load resistors from?
From autolumination.com, the place that I ordered the bulbs from. They told me which ones I needed.
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