leds in front signals.
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leds in front signals.
Hey guys, i got some led bulbs for my signals. Each bulb has around 21 leds in it, they are 1156. I put two in the back and they work fine but ofcourse it gives the error. But in the front they dont go on, i dont know why? Does anyone know why? The weird thing is that the back ones work but the front ones dont, what could it be? Any help is appreciated. thanks
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yo same situation with me man...ive ordered 3 diff types online and none have worked up front...i dont know why...i jus gave up for a bit and left clear bulbs up there....right now i dont even have turn signals in the new projectors cuz i refuse to have the orange bulbs there lol....anyone have success with some front white LED turn signals that they could link us to...?
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i just spray them lightly with silver spray paint. also, coloring a clear bulb with a blue sharpie can change the light color.
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well I managed to put white LEDs in rear signals and side markers, and let me tell you my rear signals are so bright that they almost hurt my eyes LOL. I love my led bulbs, I'm thinking in the front maybe resistors will do the job?
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no dude why would they blink amber? they are white leds and our rear turn signals are clear. So i changed my rear signals front side markers and i want to change the front signals to white as well but cant get the damn bulbs to work.
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lol, ok here is the thing. The leds wont work for us who bought the projector headlights. THe reason is that the pin that goes on the bulbs adapter is inserted backwards, if you look at the adapter, you will see three pins, one black and two silver, cut off the black one and insert the adapter coming from the cars wire upside down and your bulb will work :-D
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Haha Zeek im impressed you figured it out i had 1 guy at a shop trying to figure it out for 3 hours, measuring resistance in ohms, and doing all types of things searching for a 1 ohm resistor for so long, until i brought it to another friend of mine he took a look and noticed the incorrect side the positive and negative charge was on, or something like that but he took it out cut the wire and reversed it, and now there working good since.
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lol, ok here is the thing. The leds wont work for us who bought the projector headlights. THe reason is that the pin that goes on the bulbs adapter is inserted backwards, if you look at the adapter, you will see three pins, one black and two silver, cut off the black one and insert the adapter coming from the cars wire upside down and your bulb will work :-D
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hey guys, i got them from ebay. I will post the guys ebay id so that you can buy the exactly same ones. To be honest, they look really nice and are really bright. You will also need resistors so that you get no error and they dont blink too fast. I made all the signals white in my car so that looks hot.
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hey guys, i got them from ebay. I will post the guys ebay id so that you can buy the exactly same ones. To be honest, they look really nice and are really bright. You will also need resistors so that you get no error and they dont blink too fast. I made all the signals white in my car so that looks hot.
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these are the ones i got. I will post pics tomorrow.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pair-...spagenameZWDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pair-...spagenameZWDVW
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these are the ones i got. I will post pics tomorrow.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pair-...spagenameZWDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pair-...spagenameZWDVW
did you put them in or what?
