On my old Saturn I put 3157 White LEDs into my parking / turn signal lamps.
They look great when driving, but when I hit my signal they would flash wicked fast. Basically to fix them I would have had to have bought some part for like $30 to fix the issue.
My question is whether this is the same for the Civic. I would love to put LEDs in my parking lamps but I dont want to have this hyper blinker effect from it.
Yes mine are hyperblinkers now (I replaced ALL my bulbs with LED). You can simply place a resistor inline to counteract this. I forget the resistance value though, just check the resistance on the stock bulbs and rig up a resistor value similar to that. The thing is LED's have next to NO resistance so the car thinks the bulb is blown.
My LEDs are all burning out. It is happening fast too because I just bought them in Septemer. Never will buy them again. They look good, but the lifetime is unbelievably bull. I bought them from autoluminations.com. Maybe it was just a bad place to buy them from. I bought them for the dome, interior, and all the external lights. A few of them started strobing or just died out. The blinkers will hyper blink, but like others said, they can be fixed with a resistor.
Originally posted by Boiler_Room Hyperblinkers are like turn signals on crack.
LMAO
I agree that they are like turn signals on CRACK, but I DO like them, and I had planned on doing a mod to the fuse to get this effect, however, now I might just use LED's.
Originally posted by DuYaKnow My LEDs are all burning out. It is happening fast too because I just bought them in Septemer. Never will buy them again. They look good, but the lifetime is unbelievably bull. I bought them from autoluminations.com. Maybe it was just a bad place to buy them from. I bought them for the dome, interior, and all the external lights. A few of them started strobing or just died out. The blinkers will hyper blink, but like others said, they can be fixed with a resistor.
I thought LED's would last longer and have about 2x's the brightness of original bulbs?
TRUE STORY : I put led bulbs on my 2002 civic both parking and turn signal on the back only, and yes that made them blink wicked in front and rear. But after about a month my cars automatic transmission started jurkin' the take 1st and 2nd gear horrible. Make long story short, I took it to the dealer I got a new trans still had problems, took it back, got new 'cpu' still had problems. It turns out it was the bulbs, too much juice for 'cpu' {Computer}. I didnt pay a thing, All Under Warranty. I havent had a problem yet.
Dammit, this thread jinxed me! Last night I found out I blew a stop light LED bulb (it's strobing now) and my left sidemarker bulb didn't light up!
Fixed the sidemarker one tho - cheap sidemarker socket had come loose. Now I'm afraid to post anything lest something else go horribly wrong.
My electrical system is still running great, and no noticeable CPU problems - even my milage is still good. But then again, my car is a stick shift, so I can't make a direct comparison.
Originally posted by JAUDINY TRUE STORY : I put led bulbs on my 2002 civic both parking and turn signal on the back only, and yes that made them blink wicked in front and rear. But after about a month my cars automatic transmission started jurkin' the take 1st and 2nd gear horrible. Make long story short, I took it to the dealer I got a new trans still had problems, took it back, got new 'cpu' still had problems. It turns out it was the bulbs, too much juice for 'cpu' {Computer}. I didnt pay a thing, All Under Warranty. I havent had a problem yet.
RIGHT!!!
I've NEVER heard of a light bulb doing this to an ENTIRE electrical system AND the ECU...dang NOOB!
