LEDs everywhere
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Originally Posted by Jim Banville
Nah. ANY lights in the grille is RICE. I take that back, if someone made a grille star that glowed, that would be cool 
As far as your obsession with green, you remind me of that eBay commercial where that guy put his lime green Honda on Ebay and his grilfriend says "Who's gonna buy a line green car?". In the next scene you see a guy and everything he owns is green and he bids on the car
As far as your obsession with green, you remind me of that eBay commercial where that guy put his lime green Honda on Ebay and his grilfriend says "Who's gonna buy a line green car?". In the next scene you see a guy and everything he owns is green and he bids on the car
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Originally Posted by Jim Banville
Nah. ANY lights in the grille is RICE. I take that back, if someone made a grille star that glowed, that would be cool
As far as your obsession with green, you remind me of that eBay commercial where that guy put his lime green Honda on Ebay and his grilfriend says "Who's gonna buy a line green car?". In the next scene you see a guy and everything he owns is green and he bids on the car
As far as your obsession with green, you remind me of that eBay commercial where that guy put his lime green Honda on Ebay and his grilfriend says "Who's gonna buy a line green car?". In the next scene you see a guy and everything he owns is green and he bids on the car
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Originally Posted by DACHIGGA
Plus, why pay like bucks, when everything I've done is free. HAHAHAHAHA
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nice work on the interior, how about some full shots from further away at night with the lights on?
how in the heck did you get to the vanity lights??? i've been trying for a while now and dont know how to get to them to replace them, thanks!
how in the heck did you get to the vanity lights??? i've been trying for a while now and dont know how to get to them to replace them, thanks!
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Originally Posted by ctC230K
someone already has! i will post pictures later. he put 4 blue led's around his CL style grill star on his c230ss.
I don't think that is ANYTHING like the actual emblem itself glowing.
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I have been trying for a long time to make LED taillight elements for my coupe. As probably everyone knows, you have to make the rear SAM unit happy, which I have done. Then I took a 211 LED element and took it apart, rearranged the LEDs on a new circuit board, and used the resistors for the LEDs in line, so that I have a working element for my coupe. The problem is, I just don't think they diffuse enough light to see clearly in the daytime. I'm still trying to think of a way to do it, but nothing so far.
So close, yet so far away!
Anyone else try anything like this?
So close, yet so far away!
Anyone else try anything like this?
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Originally Posted by inFiniTE LooP
nice work on the interior, how about some full shots from further away at night with the lights on?
how in the heck did you get to the vanity lights??? i've been trying for a while now and dont know how to get to them to replace them, thanks!
how in the heck did you get to the vanity lights??? i've been trying for a while now and dont know how to get to them to replace them, thanks!
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Originally Posted by mbbodytech
I have been trying for a long time to make LED taillight elements for my coupe. As probably everyone knows, you have to make the rear SAM unit happy, which I have done. Then I took a 211 LED element and took it apart, rearranged the LEDs on a new circuit board, and used the resistors for the LEDs in line, so that I have a working element for my coupe. The problem is, I just don't think they diffuse enough light to see clearly in the daytime. I'm still trying to think of a way to do it, but nothing so far.
So close, yet so far away!
Anyone else try anything like this?
So close, yet so far away!
Anyone else try anything like this?
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Originally Posted by DACHIGGA
You can just pry them out from the right side. You don't even need a screwdriver, you can use your fingers or maybe even a key. Like a real metal key.
1st it depends on which side you're on, driver's side will slide down from the left side and the passenger side is best opened from the right side. both on the sides closest to their respective window.
next, when you begin prying down, if you see metal up there, make sure you DO NOT pull on the metal part, the metal stays up there, once you get a big enough gap to fit something between the metal and the plastic, you need to insert something (between the metal and plastic cover, i just used a quarter (aka $0.25 piece
)) and push INSIDE, there is a small thing that goes on an angle almost like a latch, you need to push on this and pull down at the same time to get the cover off and down. once you've got the cover off, you can push on the black latch connected to the power and the entire thing comes down to replace the bulb (you dont need to do this part to replace the bulb but it sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.)
that's about it, if anybody needs pictures or more detail just ask
(p.s.-sorry bout the thread hijack :o )
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Originally Posted by inFiniTE LooP
thanks, for anyone else that needs to get to these, they WILL come out, it took me a while and some aching fingers, but i finally figured out the easiest way to replace/remove the vanity lights.
1st it depends on which side you're on, driver's side will slide down from the left side and the passenger side is best opened from the right side. both on the sides closest to their respective window.
next, when you begin prying down, if you see metal up there, make sure you DO NOT pull on the metal part, the metal stays up there, once you get a big enough gap to fit something between the metal and the plastic, you need to insert something (between the metal and plastic cover, i just used a quarter (aka $0.25 piece)) and push INSIDE, there is a small thing that goes on an angle almost like a latch, you need to push on this and pull down at the same time to get the cover off and down.
once you've got the cover off, you can push on the black latch connected to the power and the entire thing comes down to replace the bulb (you dont need to do this part to replace the bulb but it sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.)
that's about it, if anybody needs pictures or more detail just ask
(p.s.-sorry bout the thread hijack :o )
1st it depends on which side you're on, driver's side will slide down from the left side and the passenger side is best opened from the right side. both on the sides closest to their respective window.
next, when you begin prying down, if you see metal up there, make sure you DO NOT pull on the metal part, the metal stays up there, once you get a big enough gap to fit something between the metal and the plastic, you need to insert something (between the metal and plastic cover, i just used a quarter (aka $0.25 piece
)) and push INSIDE, there is a small thing that goes on an angle almost like a latch, you need to push on this and pull down at the same time to get the cover off and down. once you've got the cover off, you can push on the black latch connected to the power and the entire thing comes down to replace the bulb (you dont need to do this part to replace the bulb but it sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.)
that's about it, if anybody needs pictures or more detail just ask
(p.s.-sorry bout the thread hijack :o )
WHoa so much work, I just pryed them and they cmae right out.
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Originally Posted by inFiniTE LooP
thanks, for anyone else that needs to get to these, they WILL come out, it took me a while and some aching fingers, but i finally figured out the easiest way to replace/remove the vanity lights.
1st it depends on which side you're on, driver's side will slide down from the left side and the passenger side is best opened from the right side. both on the sides closest to their respective window.
next, when you begin prying down, if you see metal up there, make sure you DO NOT pull on the metal part, the metal stays up there, once you get a big enough gap to fit something between the metal and the plastic, you need to insert something (between the metal and plastic cover, i just used a quarter (aka $0.25 piece)) and push INSIDE, there is a small thing that goes on an angle almost like a latch, you need to push on this and pull down at the same time to get the cover off and down.
once you've got the cover off, you can push on the black latch connected to the power and the entire thing comes down to replace the bulb (you dont need to do this part to replace the bulb but it sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.)
that's about it, if anybody needs pictures or more detail just ask
(p.s.-sorry bout the thread hijack :o )
1st it depends on which side you're on, driver's side will slide down from the left side and the passenger side is best opened from the right side. both on the sides closest to their respective window.
next, when you begin prying down, if you see metal up there, make sure you DO NOT pull on the metal part, the metal stays up there, once you get a big enough gap to fit something between the metal and the plastic, you need to insert something (between the metal and plastic cover, i just used a quarter (aka $0.25 piece
)) and push INSIDE, there is a small thing that goes on an angle almost like a latch, you need to push on this and pull down at the same time to get the cover off and down. once you've got the cover off, you can push on the black latch connected to the power and the entire thing comes down to replace the bulb (you dont need to do this part to replace the bulb but it sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.)
that's about it, if anybody needs pictures or more detail just ask
(p.s.-sorry bout the thread hijack :o )
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:o it's really not all that complicated once ya do it, i just wanted to make it as clear as possible on how it's done
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way to be different! too much sameness then we're all driving the same cars again.
oh yeah. i like banville's idear about the glowing star. it could be a fiber optic plastic being fed from a single light source. then, you could trim the very edges of the star with chrome to still make it stand out in the daytime. could be a big seller! :p
way to be different! too much sameness then we're all driving the same cars again.
oh yeah. i like banville's idear about the glowing star. it could be a fiber optic plastic being fed from a single light source. then, you could trim the very edges of the star with chrome to still make it stand out in the daytime. could be a big seller! :p
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Originally Posted by CclassRun
hes greenmember. He loves greeeeeennnn!
way to be different! too much sameness then we're all driving the same cars again.
oh yeah. i like banville's idear about the glowing star. it could be a fiber optic plastic being fed from a single light source. then, you could trim the very edges of the star with chrome to still make it stand out in the daytime. could be a big seller! :p
way to be different! too much sameness then we're all driving the same cars again.
oh yeah. i like banville's idear about the glowing star. it could be a fiber optic plastic being fed from a single light source. then, you could trim the very edges of the star with chrome to still make it stand out in the daytime. could be a big seller! :p
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Originally Posted by DACHIGGA
you prolly don't know this but the effect seeing me in my car at night with the lights on is like in a chinese ghost movie where when the dead ppl come back, they always have green glow on there faces, that's why I did it, I love green.
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Originally Posted by ricky.agrawal
I'm diggin' it!
What do you mean you custom made the LED's?
What do you mean you custom made the LED's?
Second, all the llighting is made up by individual LEDs and I put them together to form whatever lighting fixtures I need.
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Originally Posted by ricky.agrawal
Oh I understand now, I thought you like, literally made them haha!
That's pretty phat man, can you show up some pictures of the LED's themselves?
That's pretty phat man, can you show up some pictures of the LED's themselves?
