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Old Sep 24, 2003
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Question Led for parking lights?

Would these work on the parking lights? Im not talking about the trun signal bulbs cuz I know their double filament. But is there LED's for our turn signals?


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Anything 194 on the car will work.
It shouldn't give you a "hyperblinker" effect like some of the other size leds do.
I had a 1 led 194 for my parking lights up front and it look like a white dot. Regular filament white 194s worked better for me since they were brighter.
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So is it really that bright?
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I have them on my car. The color is awesome because they're actually white, but the thing is they're not as bright at angles. The 4 LED version is very concentrated. You might want to try an inverted LED.
www.autoluminations.com I bought my bulbs from there. The inverted LED spreads out the light better. I bought my gf inverted purple bulbs, which makes the light spread out instead of like a dot.

The signal from there works, but it causes you to have a hyperblinker b/c the LED uses little power that the car doesn't recognize a bulb there. I really like the LED for the interior, but don't buy the dome light LED. I bought two and both have burnt out on me.
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I have replaced every incandescent bulb in my car with LED from autolumination.com and am very happy with every one of them. I have DIY hyperblinkers because it's true the car thinks I've blown bulbs. The 4-led ones are very bright and very concentrated, but very very white. I prefer them to the inverteds actually. Also you CAN get 7443 LED bulbs, which replace your double-filament ones. All in all the whole car cost me about $100US. I still have the stock headlights, but now that HID conversion is looking better and better so it can match my white corners. The turn signals are more brilliant (if more concentrated) and the reduced draw from my electrical system can only be for the good.
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I have replaced every incandescent bulb in my car with LED from autolumination.com and am very happy with every one of them. I have DIY hyperblinkers because it's true the car thinks I've blown bulbs. The 4-led ones are very bright and very concentrated, but very very white. I prefer them to the inverteds actually. Also you CAN get 7443 LED bulbs, which replace your double-filament ones. All in all the whole car cost me about $100US. I still have the stock headlights, but now that HID conversion is looking better and better so it can match my white corners. The turn signals are more brilliant (if more concentrated) and the reduced draw from my electrical system can only be for the good.
I did the same thing with my lights making them all LED's and have had problems with my electrical system, even blew my hazards and turn signal fuses, do LED's really use up less power? I love how they look and i still got them on except for my back turn signals cuz I think thats what did in my fuses.. what do you think?
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Hmmm...I've had my full conversion running for a short amount of time so I can't say I have had enough time to properly test the electrical system. I'm still rather wary so every time I come home, if I remember, I check the hazards (hyperblinker hazards now), brake, corner, and tail lights. All still good so far.
If you are having problems then I recommend grabbing a load balancer for the LED so the car thinks you have a good set of incandescent lights. Problem is a load balancer will have to be mounted somewhere it can cool off, as it grabs electicity and it gets converted to heat cause it's not really powering anything. Plus you lose the spiffy hyperblinkies.
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Plus I think you'd have to grab one for each LED bulb - doubles your cost, and again, no spiffy hyperblinkers. How long after you put the LED stuff in did you blow fuses?
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You guys did your rears too? It still looks red through the red lens, no? I did my whole headlight, except the H4 and my interior interior. Both of my dome lights that I bought blew out, and a few 194 died out. I had a few extras. My reverse and trunk lights are white also.

You only need the load distributor for the front blinkers I think. But they cost like 10 bucks or so.
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I did my rears as well...since I have the Ferio corner tails, I used red LED for the blinkers (which are behind clear lens now), and hyperwhite for the bulbs still behind the red lenses.
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do it man, and if it looks good on ur car, i'll jack ur set.
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I did, it DOES look good, and if you decide to make the drive to Canada, I'll jack YOUR shiet....LOL.

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