ABCar

I changed out the two interior lights above the doors, and the trunk and engine lid lights as well...all with the LEDs from superbrightleds.com.
After 5 minutes of looking at them I cleaned off the old ones and put them back in. The LEDs just looked so cold and uninviting to me...I prefer the warmth of the incandescent bulbs. I am returning the unused bulbs to Subperbrightleds.com.

However, I did leave the new LED parking light in...although it too is colder looking, it now matches the 55 watt HIDs I got from DDM, Now the front looks more integrated and the headlights look like "part of the car" instead of an add-on. Now, I need the H3 fogs and I will be done with lights for now. The H3 lights I got are not bright as noted by diligent RL'r a couple posts back!
I am going to get the Sylvania H3's.

*This has been posted before but while I was "into my lights" I disassembled the headlights (took front sealed lens off cleaned the inside of it and the reflector (USE CAUTION SO YOU DON'T MAR OR SCRATCH)...Wow, you can't beleive the film and dirt that gets in there even thought the factory seal had never been broken! Now when I look at my headlights the lenses are clear and glistening...you can see all the detail of the reflectors and bulbs and I must say, it makes my car look much better!

Stewart

Am I the only person who's LED's didn't work out of the box (I bought those '5 LED' items from Hong Kong)? I found out after buying them that our car's have a positive earth - polarity doesn't matter for ordinary bulbs, but does for LED's. I guess I'll be cutting, swapping and re-splicing the wires then?

AOW162435

They do? News to me.


Andreas

ABCar

Mine worked...

The Eagle

This is the way to go: reverse the plug (scrape away the two guides)







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ToreB

For clarity, our cars does not have positive earth at all, it's only Stewart's car that have reverse polarity on the bulb socket. I've never seen that before, I've mounted park light LED's on over ten 993's.

There's an additional way to fix that, unclip the two metal pins inside the female connector, and interchange them. But, it may be a bit tricky, a barb must be bent inwards on the metal part using a thin metal rod or similar to release the pin.
Regards,
Tore

993c4_Toronto

How come the easiest mods turn out to be the most 'bug' prone. I got the clear lights for my new Euro turn signals to eliminate the egg yolk look and I changed the drivers side in 2 minutes. The passenger side bulb will not come out of the socket!!! I can untwist the bayonet bulb but cannot get it out of the socket.

Any experience with this?

Update: I think the socket that houses the bulb is shot - seems like the bulb is stuck pretty good. I think the indicator light socket part is 993 631 126 00. Anyone know if this is correct. The part isn't clearly part of any schematic I can find online.

Macca

Hi guys. I think you may find the US cars have negative earth but ROW cars have positive earth. I first discovered this when wondering why my porsche trickle charger would not charge though my cigarette lighter socket. I may be worng but after some research I discovered it is wired different from teh fuse boxand I recall there being a difference in poliarity of earth....

Cheers
M

vern1

993c4_Toronto, what bulbs did you use in the clear corners? I also have clears and have been looking for a brighter 2 filament bulb. The turn signal bulbs stay on as part of the daytime running lights (I too am in Toronto) and they are a very yellow colour. I replaced the parking lights with those 5 LED bulbs so they match the HID's, replaced the fogs with Superbrights (better but not anywhere as white as the HID's) but have been not been able to find the answer to which bulb matches the HID colour for the clear cornered turn signals?? Does such a thing exist??

thanks

993c4_Toronto

Vern1 - Your turn lights stay on as a configuration of the DRL? I don't think I have seen that before.

I bought the bulbs that are silver when not illuminated so the look good when the turn signal is not on. That was my primary goal. I never came across a bulb for the turn signal that was desighned to match the look of HIDs. I know you have been looking for a while for that.

I have one of my new bulbs installed and it looks great. Unfortunatly as I wrote above, I can't get the second bulb out of the socket!

aircooled

Hi Vern,

I used LEDs in the "positioning lights" to match the HIDs.

Like Steven above, used the silver coated 1157standard (double contact) Parking and turn signals are amber anyway, so no need for color matching to the HIDs. Regarding bulb removal, may just have to break the existing bulb to get it out. I'm looking at one of the sockets now--no corrosion, just stuck - looks like a double fillament bulb in a single socket.

When I ordered Euro Clear corners, they came with a socket for a single filament bulb (1156). Just replaced it with the stock dual filament (1157)

One supplier, Superbrights makes a variety of automotive replacements that may work in your situtation, see: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...n.html%23a3156 If yours are used for DRL as well as turn signals, a load resistor may be needed on the flashing segment.

It is confusing, may just have to order and try it out...good luck

911PERVY

Guys.......all cars have negative earth.................pleeeeaaassseeeeeeeeeee

ToreB

Well, maybe we're digging into language technicalities here, maybe not the safest ground (!) for a native Norwegian.:-) :-)
"Earth" in electrical terms is the reference point and indicate nothing about polarity. Some cars, mostly made by our brilliant British friends have the positive battery pole connected to "ground" or chassis. I'll bet Mr. Lucas has something to do with this, Patent Holder Of the Short Circuit. Maybe 911pervy can elaborate this better than me?
Anyway, modern cars have all "negative earth" and the negative battery pole connected to chassis.
Voilá!
Tore

AOW162435

My '72 Land Rover (SWB, Diesel) did not...


Andreas

911PERVY

OK, good point, all cars from 1970 ish onwards have the - connected to the chassis so negative earth. Old, real old British cars and some other Jonny foreigner makes had positive earths