Interior lights...?
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Interior lights...?
Hey, guys!
My father is currently waiting his ML to be delivered any time soon and I want to change all the bulbs in the interior to LEDs. I want to do this as soon as the car is here and that's why I want to buy the bulbs earlier.
Could some of you please tell me how many bulbs should I buy because I haven't seen any 2012 ML in detail and don't know how many bulbs would I need or what type exactly...
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time
My father is currently waiting his ML to be delivered any time soon and I want to change all the bulbs in the interior to LEDs. I want to do this as soon as the car is here and that's why I want to buy the bulbs earlier.
Could some of you please tell me how many bulbs should I buy because I haven't seen any 2012 ML in detail and don't know how many bulbs would I need or what type exactly...
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time
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Hey, guys!
My father is currently waiting his ML to be delivered any time soon and I want to change all the bulbs in the interior to LEDs. I want to do this as soon as the car is here and that's why I want to buy the bulbs earlier.
Could some of you please tell me how many bulbs should I buy because I haven't seen any 2012 ML in detail and don't know how many bulbs would I need or what type exactly...
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time
My father is currently waiting his ML to be delivered any time soon and I want to change all the bulbs in the interior to LEDs. I want to do this as soon as the car is here and that's why I want to buy the bulbs earlier.
Could some of you please tell me how many bulbs should I buy because I haven't seen any 2012 ML in detail and don't know how many bulbs would I need or what type exactly...
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time
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Thanks!
Do you know if they are festoon or some other kind?
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Just make sure that they dim. I think they went with regular bulbs because it softens up the lighting. I like the lights that come with the car. However, I do wish they rear brake lights were LED's.
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But yet to back my words up, I am going to put a visual proof:
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Looks like yellow brake lights.
Cool look but is that not what everyone is saying should be the signal lights?????
Not RED blinkers
I have to check the tail n brake housings as I see white LED backup lights
My manual only speaks of standard base light systems
PS no pick needed I believe what you say but it looks cool
Cool look but is that not what everyone is saying should be the signal lights?????
Not RED blinkers
I have to check the tail n brake housings as I see white LED backup lights
My manual only speaks of standard base light systems
PS no pick needed I believe what you say but it looks cool
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Looks like yellow brake lights.
Cool look but is that not what everyone is saying should be the signal lights?????
Not RED blinkers
I have to check the tail n brake housings as I see white LED backup lights
My manual only speaks of standard base light systems
PS no pick needed I believe what you say but it looks cool
Cool look but is that not what everyone is saying should be the signal lights?????
Not RED blinkers
I have to check the tail n brake housings as I see white LED backup lights
My manual only speaks of standard base light systems
PS no pick needed I believe what you say but it looks cool
Here it is with the brakes only (basically the farther you are from the car the more red the lights will look - on cameras):
The main issue about the lights looking yellowish is because the bulbs are incandescent, which means they light up white and the red lens on the taillights passes only the red wavelengths... (Maybe the cameras can see this better than the human eye and it looks yellowish in pics but I'm not sure about this)
As you can see here it's with both the turn signal on and brake pressed:
The angle of the car is pretty weird but if you look closely you will see for yourself.
Here is better one:
Here it is only with the turn signal:
And last... here you can see the two incandescent bulbs in the taillights - the reverse lights and the brake lights:
Last edited by BKaradakov; Nov 11, 2012 at 11:07 PM.
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I didn't like it much, either. I thought that it has something to do with the fiber optics but then again it can be done even though as well. BMWs, for example they do also have fiber optics in the taillights but the brake lights are LEDs there and they look hundred times better.
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An interesting thread on LED tail lights for the previous generation ML: https://mbworld.org/forums/m-class-w...il-lights.html
Perhaps in a year or two we might be able to retrofit them?
Perhaps in a year or two we might be able to retrofit them?
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Retrofitting is usually not the issue. The issue is if it's made OEM. But along the same vein, hopefully MB will come to their senses and create an OEM LED tail light in a few years (is that what you were implying?)
