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Old 09-29-2009, 03:53 PM
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Reliable eyebrow LEDs??

Really not happy right now. My car just told me yet another led I bought from azn has burnt out. I bout six pairs of LEDs and I'm down to one... Possibly two. Can anyone suggest some relativley cheap LEDs that last???!
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Just get over the LED thing and get the Polarg's.

There's very little benefit from having LED in your eyelids compared to bulb since the housing is diffused.
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Really not happy right now. My car just told me yet another led I bought from azn has burnt out. I bout six pairs of LEDs and I'm down to one... Possibly two. Can anyone suggest some relativley cheap LEDs that last???!
How long did your LEDs last? I just replaced my eyebrow with some JDM "BIHAKU" and I am getting worried now.....
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I'm fairly confident now that all LEDs in the eyebrows will eventually burn out. This is due to the voltage shift and the LEDs are taking on more voltage than they were designed for. Unfortunately no one knew about this shift till fairly recently.
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Are Polargs brighter than the stock eyelid bulbs?
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it seems like alot of ppl don't like the "blue" or "purple" look they are getting, but in my case i prefer the more blue or purple look. As I understand the polargs are just white with a tinge of blue. but if someone could link me id settle for anything than the OEM lights. Does the 2010 models have a white blue eyebrows as well? i got some new booklets of the 2010 model and it looked like it had a more whiteblue eyebrow. For some reason the 4 leds i had before, the outside two would turn a dark blue and the inner 2 would stay whitish blue. which looked cool imho
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Originally Posted by Richard2011
Are Polargs brighter than the stock eyelid bulbs?
I've had the Polarg's for about 2 weeks now and they are as bright as the LED from Azn's group buy. They are almost identical when next to each other before they warm up and become blue.
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just bought a pair of polargs. forgot to buy 2 sets.... o well. im not paying for extra shipping.
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I got polarg and they are brighter. You just need to have resistors installed.
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woah! Polargs need resistors? I thought it was plug and play??
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Polargs ARE plugnplay. They are normal wedge 194 bulbs NOT leds.
No resistor required
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Members on this forum use Polargs in either:

a) Polarg M4 W5W 194 wedges
b) Polarg leds like Got Thang has. These are hard to source and will require a resistor.

Most of us are talking about (a) when we are talking about Polargs.
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ooh i didnt know that! thanks for the correction
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Get the Polarg. I did mine 2 days ago and im very happy with the output.
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Over the last two days, both my left and then my rights started given me error messages....oh well, back to the Polargs for me.
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That was what stops me from changing to LED's. Oh well good luck with changing back to the polargs. =)
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ctgilles leds have been doing well since i removed the caps to increase air circulation...

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