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I just installed LED footwell lights, red, both in front and rear and also the trunk. The kit came with a factory looking switch so they come on when the dome light comes on, when you open the door, or you can turn them on where they stay on. Easy install, took about 30 minutes. I will post pictures soon. The guy makes them in various colors, I went with red to match my SI red gagues.

 
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Blue footwell lights are my next task, I'd also love blue cupholder lights.

Some time down the road, I'd love to put lights in the vents that are in sync to the music.

 
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where'd you get em? they sound cool

 
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if you decide to get this stuff, feel free to make another video on how to install it

 
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That's the plan. Every DIY I do will be a video.

I think I'm gonna go the easy way out for the them though, just splicing them into a 12v plug. If I feel like tearing out my center console, again(that was hell), and splicing them straight into the 12v wires then the DIY might be worth something.

Also, I recommend those bulbs I got. I see no reason not to get them, trying to convince my parents we need them in all our vehicles.

 
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I got them from a guy who just started making them for hondas. I only paid $80 for th ewhole kit, if your intrested let me know I can get you his email, or you can email me and I will get you the info. geopatton3@yahoo.com

 
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I am going to post pictures of the trunk and switch and just a few others, the trunk led were easy to do just unplug the light bulb and plug in the new led strips and thats it no splicing in wires or anything like that

 
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heres a few pictures of the foot wells and trunk

 
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does anyone know where to get a red led lighted shift **** that looks stock with the numbers only that light up, or something similar, but I dont want a cheap looking one that just lights up

 
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^Lowlife was talking about something like that.. can't remember the name. pm him?

Hey everyone, do you mind if I move this thread to General > I.C.E. and Electrical, since
LEDs are of interest to every generation?

 
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I think it'd be best to leave it here. The majority of the discussion has been about 7th gens.

 
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you do whatever u wanna do, but i dunno if it'll get as much attention.. when im lookin for anything for my car, i generally stay in the 7th gen section.. dunno how that true that is for everyone else. but i got a feeling others do the same. but its up to you.

and geopatton3.. everything looks good. very clean. i like that switch you set up too. looks like it belongs there

 
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yeah, that's my next project is gettin LED lights for the dome and maps. but i have to get the bulb type ones for the front part. that kind you got will fit in the back on though.. ill be sure to post when i get to it

ill keep an eye out for any diy vids u make.

 
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guess it got moved. lol

 
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I need to be impartial to generation to some extent, if people from other generations start posting in a thread in 7th gen that means it's most appropriate in general. I know as well as anyone though, this site mostly has 7th gen owners and the majority of the thread participants thus far have been 7th gen owners.

Yes, it has already been moved, but only to 7th gen electrical since leds are.. electrical.

edit: I mistakenly moved it to 8 & 9th gen..

 
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Yup, I'd recommend getting the 16 LED instead of the 12 LED, I wish I would have saw it before I ordered my 12 LED bulbs. Here's a link to it, it's $0.18 more for the 16 LED then the 12 LED.

I think I'm just gonna do a handful of little LED things at once: footwells, trunk light, license plate lights, and maybe under the seat lights. I've got $500 coming my way this week, so we'll just have to see how much of that I wanna devote towards my car...

 
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Tonight, I'm planning on ordering LEDs for my trunk, license plate, and reverse lights, all for a grand total of $8.97.

I love LEDs.

 
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i love me some LEDs too! lol

as far as quality goes, are those ebay ones better or the same as ones from like superbrightleds.com? i just went there bc they have the blue ones i wanna get.. but if ebay ones are cheaper, might as well get those.

(thanks for the link btw )

 
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sounds good to me

 
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I'd assuming they're the same quality, since I'm assuming superbright's are also made in China.

 
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Im still looking on superbrightleds.com for the right size bulbs for our cars. Can anyone help me out?

I want map and dome light, trunk and lic plate.

Is the front light inside our cars roof the map or dome light?

 
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I just ordered my LED trunk light, license plate lights, and reverse lights. They'll be here in about 2 weeks. I can't wait to get them. I think I'm gonna do something more labor intensive next, such as footwell LEDs wired into the 12v line or cupholder LEDs wired into the 12v line. Both would make for a good DIY.

The dome and map lights will depend on your model. The LX and DX use 3, 31mm festoon bulbs; these. And I believe(don't hold me to this) the EX uses 1, 31mm festoon bulbs and 3 168(T10) bulbs.

The trunk and license plate lights use bulbs with a T10 base which is the direct replacement for the 168 incandescent bulbs.

Here's the ones I ordered for the license plate lights and here's the ones for the trunk light.

 
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I'm not sure those will fit in the license plate area
Theres not much room in there, but do let us know if they fit or not

 
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That was my only worry. But, the base of the bulb was roughly the size of the glass on the incandescent bulb. And the LEDs appear to be about the same.

If they're slighty too big, I think there's enough extra plastic in the lenses that they could be dremeled out some.

 
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I wouldn't advise you to dremel out the plastic
It actually helps disperse the light a little, so it doesn't look like a spotlight

But then I just remembered, I had bigger LEDs in the plate lights, they should fit fine
I put pink LEDs in there for ***** and giggles lol

 
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Alrighty, sounds good. I remember seeing that pic.

Looking for a helping hand or two or three...

I'm in the stages of planning for my footwell and cupholder LEDs. I've got the LEDs and what not picked out. I'm just trying to figure out how I need to wire this stuff.

Here's my circuit I drew up(not the actual number of LEDs going to be used, there will be more), I feel like it's wrong. I made a mistake and forgot to put the second negative wire going to the LED strips(not that it matters, I could have 1 or 11 of those hypothetically speaking). I haven't done anything with circuits for about 2 years, and I tried to teach myself it again by looking at some diagrams.

 
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hey, i took these pics a while back from inside my car for the bulbs.. my model is an EX sedan. and the front lights are all bulb style:



and on:


and this is the back light which uses that "festoon" style bulb:


actual bulb that goes in there:



and these are screen shots of the bulbs for the front part that ill most likely be getting:



and then the back style bulb is like this:





i dont have any of these yet, so, cant really tell you how they are or whatever, but just thought i'd help if i could for the different models or whatever.. again, mine is an EX.

 
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Thanks for clarifying which the EX uses, I went back and edited my post.

 
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I would never buy the real LEDs, way too overpriced

The ebay LEDs arent bad

 
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This is true. They're all made in China, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were made in the same factory.