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Old Aug 30, 2003
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Question replacing all stock lights with LED's..

Is it safe to replace all the stock bulbs with 12v LED's? So far I've done all the bulbs in the tail and am getting the other ones for the front off ebay.. so would a setup with all aftermarket bulbs like this risk any damage to the electrical system?
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L.E.D.'s have actually longer life expectancy, more candlepower, and less power consumption than regular halogen bulbs. How do the tail's look now?
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they look incredible, I got carbon fiber altezza's with red LED's for the brake/parking/turn lights and white LED's for reverse/license and it looks badass so far
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can you take pics??
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how much did the LEDs cost you for the tails... and how much expected for the headlights?
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the headlights can not be replaced w/ LED. only smaller lights, blinkers, brake, markers, etc. Yes please take pics when lit up, I might have to do this!
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are they just LED light bulbs that you plug in ? or are they true LED conversions ?
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All the LED's I got were just the same size bulb for each socket so I didn't use a conversion kit or anything like that. They only cost about $10 shipped per pair off ebay but in my opinion they make a great lighting concent come true because of how sharply bright the things get.. for now heres a pic of the *** during the day, ill take one later tonight cuz its hard to capture them on photo now.. when i get the bulbs for up front ill snap a shot of that too..

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i have thought about doing this. so how much have you spent on it?
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somewhere around $90 for all 8 sets of bulbs that I bought set by set (including HID H4 headlights) and $110 for the tails shipped, all of them off ebay.. the one set I recommend getting at the least are LED license plate bulbs, they look the sharpest at night.
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no problem, the only thing left that im looking for but cant find is an LED strip for my OEM spoiler. I've seen them on a couple of vic's on the street so I know they're out there, that would be the master peice.
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LED's at night, the camera takes away from them a little so they do look a little more bright/clean.

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I had LED turns in those same tails and they looked awesome. I swithced to the TYC tails and they don't look as hot. I need some Orange LEDS if I wanna do that now
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I think l.e.d. lights would be sweet all around!
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Actually, car manufacturers are tinkering with the idea of LED headlights, cause they might use even less power than regular (or even HIDs for that matter). As is I believe they are still in the testing phase (lets hope they find a way).

As is, some new cars come standard with LED tails, etc. Sooner or later all cars will.
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damn, atleast everyone seeing your car knows it's a honda civic =O
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dont those bulbs, if put in the blinkers, make them into 'hyper blinkers'?
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<< dont those bulbs, if put in the blinkers, make them into 'hyper blinkers'? >>

made mine go hyper-mode but i think i might have the wrong size bulbs? the thing said it replaces whatever # the stock one was. The ones I got are blue LED's and I have them in front and back looks like a damn cop car when its dark hehe, i'll be arrested soon.
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no if I remember correctly they have less resistance then a regular bulb and thats why they are hyper
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Some places sell "load stabilizers" or something like that. Just put a resistor inline and fuggedaboudit.
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no if I remember correctly they have less resistance then a regular bulb and thats why they are hyper
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