SixPak

This is a last lighting mod on my GL. As you guys know 2010+ GL's have all LED lighting except front turn signal and this bothers me. Don't know why, it just does . Anyway, my beast is getting new LED's for it's front turn signals. No more fading on/off. Now it's instant on, instant off as you can see in the video. Also they're a lot brighter than the stock halogen bulbs and cover the whole area uniformly. Looks a whole lot better....(to me anyway )

FYI, the LED bulbs are directly replacement and no resistors needed (to my pleasant surprise). No errors!!

Here it is....this is my first youtube upload and I was using the Blackberry torch so go easy on me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5pdyRem_K0

mp0i

Looks good. Frankly, I never noticed that the lighting package was missing the LED front turn signals. Now I guess I need to finish the job. Where did you get the replacement bulbs? If they are simply plug and play I might have to do this as well.

nynd

Also in T.O - can you tell me where you picked them up from - thats actually pretty cool?

bselph

What happened to the video?

SixPak

Sorry , original vid was taken down due to poor quality. Here's a new clip I just recorded today.

Also, check out the new carbon fiber hood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDd9QqSrGfI

SixPak

At night time....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZiQbSkUSF4

YYZ-E55

Looks great! Any error messages? Did you ever find error-free license plate LEDs?

Texas993

Where did you get the LED bulbs? Looks cool.

SixPak

YYZ, thanks man. No error msg which was surprising . I was convinced resistors were needed to trick the computer. About the LP LEDs, I gave up and went with the next best thing, xenon bulbs which were not as bright and crisp as LEDs but they got the job done and the key thing is no error .

The LED bulbs are type 3457 and I got them from Extremebrightleds. which look like this:

carlosamg50

Hi SixPak

Reviving an old thread, Im about to purchase a late UK 2011 GL550 (well its a GL500 here in the UK ) and I want to upgrade the turn signals and also the side / parking lights in the headlamp unit which is a yellow colour (isnt it), which bulbs off that site are the ones you used please? It seems they do an all white or a multi colour amber white, do I need 2 of each? The owners manual indicates that the corner light in that strip is just a W5W whereas the main light is a PY21W type which would be more like the ones on the web link?

Did you change the small side / parking lights which are also indicated as being W5W type so they match the bi xenon colour?

Any advice would be appreciated? Im coming from an ML63 AMG W166 which has lovely crisp white LED lights so the yellow halogen in these is a big step back, couldnt stretch to a GL63 just yet because the ML63 lost money in depreciation at a higher rate that it drank the fuel I put in it

Thanks

Carl