Frisco

Chi500

How do I do this exactly?

Chi500

I think I might have a different set of lights than you mikey. The bulbs don't match the xenons exactly it's a little bluer. It's either the LEDs aren't as white as yours or my xenons aren't as blue. You said you got yours from superbrightleds.com right?

Frisco

Chi500:

Go to http://www.imageshack.us
Click the 'Browse' button on the page
Find your picture on your hard drive
Click the 'Host' button on the page

At that point, your pic will be uploaded to their server, and the page will refresh with instructions about different ways to link to your picture.

In my case, the address to my picture was http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/528...parison0wf.jpg

To display the picture, you have to put a 'tag' around the address to it. To do it, you just type [IMG] before the address and [/IMG] after it. For example, in my case it was like the following, but without the space:

[ IMG]http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5285/oemledcomparison0wf.jpg[/IMG]

Frisco

Oh it looks like you got it while I was typing...

Mtechnik - You have aftermarket xenons? If so, where from and how much?

Mtechnik

yup, i got mine from super and yea my xenons are leaning more towards blue than white. Depending at which angle you look at it, your second pic looks pretty close.

Mtechnik

yea the stock ones was still a bit yellowish for me so i changed it to these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&rd=1&tc=photo

8000k color temp

Chi500

Thanks a lot frisco. I like having the full size picture instead of having to shrink it.

Mikey, do you know of any LEDs that are white enough to match my stock xenons? Those xenon bulbs on ebay, will they work for the stock xenons?

Mtechnik

Forgot to mention, I do have another set, its brand new never used. If you want i can sell it for half the price.

Frisco

It looks like you can get 6000K and 8000K replacement bulbs from a ton of online vendors, the 6000K Philips Ultinon and a couple of the no-name 8000K bulbs look nice. Do I need to get the D2S or D2R bulbs?

Mtechnik

I have tried almost every led out there that fits our car and in my opinion, the 6led bulb is the brightest one. One thing for sure, any led bulb looks a lot better than regular ones. As for the xenons, the ones on ebay are the ones i got, they are plug n play so yes they will work. If you do plan to get them make sure the bulbs you're getting are D2S.

Frisco

Thanks!

Chi500

Mikey, are the ones you're selling the 8000k ones? Are they the same ones on your car? I'm interested but I'm not sure because I want to go with the whiter look, but then again your set up looks pretty good.

Chi500

One more thing, did you install the xenon replacement bulbs yourself, because the owner's manual keeps warns not to because of the high voltage and it doesn't tell you how to get in there.

Mtechnik

yup same ones, i changed the bulbs myself, was never good at reading warning signs, always had a thing for taking stuff apart. I wouldnt worry about the high voltage part but more on breaking the bulbs since they are so fragile. I must admit though, first time trying to change them was a bit tricky. Taking the bulb out was easy but putting it back in wasn't so fun. If you do plan to change them yourself, i can try to talk you through it.

Frisco

Thanks, I got the LEDs installed and ordered a pair of 6000K Philips Ultinons. I'll post pics.

Chi500

My LEDs don't look as bright as yours. Could it be that the connection through the wire tap isn't that good, or does it work as long as there is a connection?

Frisco

Your connection is probably fine - if you don't have a good connection, the LEDs will just blink on/off. Mine aren't horribly bright looking either - the appearance in the pics depends alot on the angle that I take the picture. One thing that might help would be a less directional LED mount - this 6 LED part has all of the LEDs surface mounted pointing in the same direction and so the relfector isn't really being ultilized like it is with a standard bulb where lights comes out in all angles and is then focused by the reflector.

Chi500

Mikey, have you tried those wide angle 5-LEDs? would they look brighter than the focused 6-LEDs? Would they make use of the reflector like what frisco was saying?

Mtechnik

sorry for the late reply, just moved from irvine to LA, barely got my internet up. The 5 led i tried, they do look brighter but its too wide wont fit the housing.

XxGoppyxX

i just put piaa's all around i think they are only 4000k temp. they arent that much different than stock. just alittle bit. i dont have xenons so if anyone knows of any better bulbs let me know

XxGoppyxX

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as you can see the fogs arent very blue but they are a little whiter than stock..i need to find better ones

Chi500

Goppy, can you take more pics from different angles? Also, could you take one in the daylight with the light off because I want to see how the bulb looks regularly. How much did you get them for? Thanks.

XxGoppyxX

here are some others ill take some more right now

ok here are some daylight shots as well. the first one is what it looks like when its off the rest are just different angles.

and they were like 10 bucks from ltbmotorsport.com

fadedinc

anyone here have 10k bulbs on their car? ive never seen it in person, is it over excessive?