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LED BULBs - opinons from those who have them please
I recently purchased TYC projectors.
I was thinking of getting LED bulb replacements.
I was curious of any issues that others may have had regarding LED bulbs.
I want to get whit 4 or 6 LED bulbs. Is 6 to large to fit into the housing?

I did search but the site has alot of shyt to sift through.
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the main problem I have heard is that leds are directional so they are hard to see from the side....
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I can see your point on that for the turn signal
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idk... I know you have to buy some kind of a resistor or something to make them not blink fast. Get em, and tell us how they work
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I might blow the damn things up.
I have a 500K resistor on it that make it look like the blinker is on speed.
If it goes any fast it will just stay on or blow up.

I need to get a 500K potentiometer ( pots for short or aka: volume pots) so I can adjust the speed.
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someone posted a link to get the LED bulbs... Dont get the shitty aftermarket brand/kind... Get the really good leds.

BMWs use optics cables and LEDs


Thats what i plan on doing if anything else to my retrofit.

Next "Lighting" mod I will be doing is LEDs in the taillights, and making the whole inerior white.
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^ leds & optics for turn signal, bulb & optics for halos
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thanks for the input.

anyone else done this?
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Impulse is right, if you want the BMW look you need fiber optics. Their halos are one large connected light source. The lights are at:
www.superbrightleds.com. Heres what they did for MY halos.
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I used to have LEDs in the front and back, for one they dont last for sh%#.....and they only shine straight ahead, so you dont want to put them in for headlights, because the light wont be projected to the sides.....i have em in the back for reverse and brake lights, there hella bright though....
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You need resistors, that's why they don't last very long
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