RonnieRenaldi

IC...good reason, I'm buying the 5 LEDs too.

prodigymb

yeah they are very bright. keep in mind that you will need to solder a resistor to each LED or they will light up very very dim or not at all and you will get "Bulb Out" error messages.

RonnieRenaldi

Is there any LEDs that comes resistor already pre-soldered?

prodigymb

not sure. but' its' pretty easy to do.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

contact e1000 he bought some leds for me soldered the resistors and mailed then out to me at a very nominal price.

Nait Sirhc

So, anyone have any ideas on how to get the city lights to come back on?

MJ50

some sellers say they have built-in resistors... it may be true but they are not specific to MBs... and even among MBs, some models work and some don't... i put my bulbs to my neighbor's SL550 and didn't work...

ECBAOBAO

uhh, so about the city lights? lol

I can't find those that you guys were talking about at Pep Boys, anywhere else? or other products?

Thanks

e1000

City lights:

ALL LED's require some form of resistor to function. LED's by nature will drive themselves to failure without a current limiting resistor. This resistor however, will not prevent the bulb out warning or LED's not lighting up at all. A small resistor can be soldered to the base of the bulb to fix this problem, and it's a pretty nice solution since it's drop-in at that point.

If anyone here wants 194 city light LED's, feel free to PM me and we can set something up. You can buy LED's of your choice and ship them out to me, or I could possibly buy them, modify them and send them out as soon as I get payment.

Trunk LED's are a little more difficult. I did a writeup that was linked earlier in this thread. I'll be up for answering questions about my writeup.

ECBAOBAO

Has anyone heard of Neutron lights?

Also, are the xenons for 2004 and 2005 e55's different colors?

Thanks

Nait Sirhc

Can someone post a simple DIY on how to solder these resistors? What kind do I need? Are they different per bulb size? I'm having issues with the 194 wedge LED bulbs I just bought.

Max.H

Eric, I cant see anything you are typing. The girl in the sig is distracting the hell out of me.

M-bENZ

Just installed those LED on my license plate,

https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class...installed.html

ECBAOBAO

Haha Max.

Someone help me plz -_-.. I'm getting confused. The more I search the forums the more mixed reviews I get!

So...Lets finally get things straight!

Should I get PIAA (if so which ones) or HMS's Neutrons or any other company to match my STOCK xenons?

BlownV8

Yes, they work perfectly. I'm using them now and they do not cause a bulb out warning message.

InTheBenz0

Your using them in your city light? or license plate lights? Or do they work for both?

I have an 03 SL55

BlownV8

City lights and yes they were perfectly with no bulb-out messages. I used them in the city lights because I dislike the yellow look of the halogen city bulbs.

artowar

Thanks BlownV8-- you've just saved me a bunch o' time fitting & soldering

BlownV8

No problem! That's what the forum is all about.

ECBAOBAO

hey blowv8 do you have pix? how well do they match up to stock xenons?

BlownV8

They are closer to 6000K in color but they look great.

ECBAOBAO

How are xenonmatch HOEN lights?

prodigymb

they suck. and they do not match. and one of mine burnt out a week after i put them in.

KipF

I ordered a set for my city (inner) lights. They came in today and were an easy install. No error message and a HUGE improvement over the yellowish stock bulbs. Now I need to get some for my high beams and fogs.

ECBAOBAO

I went with Polargs and pretty happy with em