» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | | | | | | 08-30-2009, 09:56 PM | #1 | Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: portland Posts: 7 | LED interior bulbs Regarding LED bulbs for the interior cabin and instrument cluster - are they just plug and play? Need some education regarding LED bulbs. In an earlier thread, someone had to use resistors and solder them in. I think that was for blue led lights. Also another problem I read about led bulbs was that the map dome lights need reverse polarity bulbs. Is this correct? I'm looking to replace my interior lights and the instrument cluster with LED bulbs with the simplest steps without soldering anything. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. | | | 08-30-2009, 10:49 PM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Portland Or Posts: 2,666 | Be very careful, the light cannot be visible from outside the car, I watched some tuner guys get slapped outside a event this weekend with the blue LED washer nibs. Sounded like they got hit for 700 bucks. "Impersonating a police vehicle." Dave __________________ Dave - PDX 1995 318ti - Active Black and Tan. 2005 330xi - Mtech 1 - 6spd - Orient Blue/Black | | | 08-31-2009, 01:00 AM | #3 | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 | No way to get around soldering, and unless you're replacing LED's with LED's, you'll need to use resistors. Otherwise you'll just burn out the LED's with too much power. Some of the interior lights are LED from the factory. The window switches for example, I believe are LED as are the A/C, defrost and door lock buttons. Yes LED's have a polarity. If you install them backwards you'll get nothing. Google "LED diagram" "LED wiring" or "LED polarity" and you'll find your answers. | | | 09-02-2009, 01:07 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: SOUTH Jersey Posts: 1,085 | Quote: Originally Posted by pdxmotorhead Be very careful, the light cannot be visible from outside the car, I watched some tuner guys get slapped outside a event this weekend with the blue LED washer nibs. Sounded like they got hit for 700 bucks. "Impersonating a police vehicle." Dave | Those lights were already outside the car. As VW gets away with their dash lights in blue.. I am pretty sure you could too. I HAVE seen replacement lamps that are LED for the maplights. Those are plug and play | | | 09-02-2009, 01:11 AM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 | I don't think you'll get in trouble for that, I know that my neons in the interior are legal, as long as they aren't outside the car you're fine | | | 09-27-2010, 02:44 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 111 | | | | 10-11-2010, 02:40 PM | #7 | Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cornwall,United Kingdom Posts: 26 | In the uk the law is... No white light showing from the rear of the vehicle except for when reversing. No red lights showing from the front of the vehice whatsoever. No blue light visible from any part of the vehicle unless it is an ambulance or police vehicle.. No green lights showing unless it is a DOCTOR vehicle. All other colours are debatable as they can say it is distracing to other drivers. Bit crap really as my mate had purple neons and got nicked for it :'( __________________ She now has new boots! | | | 10-11-2010, 06:18 PM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Bethlehem, PA Posts: 1,106 | i know the post is old, but for the future, Ebay and other sites have plug and play LED bulbs for under the dash and inside the car. they basically use the same bulbs, and put LEDs in them. __________________ Check out our new website! https://soltechsolutionsllc.com/ Green Your Decor with the Aspect! Shop for the Grow Light Used by Interior Designers, Growers & People Like You! | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |
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