ECBAOBAO

Hello,

I searched the forums and saw that most people replace the yellow halogen city lights with PIAA 19172, but I was wondering if there were other bulbs that I could pick up at like Pep Boys or Kragen that would do the trick.

Thanks

Yacht Master

I have the Pep Boys hyper white citi lights and they are clean white the problem is they dont make the same bulb anymore. Take a look at MJ50 s Mod fever he has some cool leds.

ECBAOBAO

aww man, when I go to Pep Boys, what should I be looking for on the package to see if it will fit?

Thanks

Yacht Master

I think they are 194 and here is a link to MJ50

https://mbworld.org/forums/3291270-post555.html

Vader55

any 194 will work, ebay etc..

superlumination.com has the 194 super whites with the silver stealth coating for like 3 or 4 bucks each

http://superlumination.com/titaniumseries.htm

aleksandar1099

I found bulbs at advance auto parts that work well, they are the white mini wedge bulbs. Get the same bulbs for the clear side markers as well.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

Pm e1000 he soldered some resistor on some super white leds for me.
Another option is, if you look at the 09 e63 their city light bulbs are blue in color so you can get those from the dealership.

prodigymb

I tried using Hoen xenon match bulbs which were supposed to white and match the HID......but they didn't match and on top of that one burnt out 5 days later.

I went with MJ50s advice and did the SMT tower leds from http://superlumination.com/194.htm

They are nice and at night "kinda" match the hids but not really. The LEDs are bit to "white/blue" , going with a 5000k bulb or even 6000k hid bulb would match these better.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

Super White LED match with a 5000k. 6000K is has more of a blueish look.

prodigymb

do you have 5000K bulbs? how is the light output on them? where did you buy from?

ECBAOBAO

Thanks guys, any other suggestions for 194 bulbs that I can pick up at a Pep boys or local store?

Max.H

Good post Eric, I have been going crazy tying to find bulbs that will match my 7000k hid's. I tried the 09 E63 and they look yellow just like what I had before. I wanted to do led but kept hearing about people running into problems. Does anyone know what will work best with my application?

Also the license plate bulbs look terrible. What can be done to make it look whiter. I know we cant do LED. What is the next best thing? TIA

ECBAOBAO

Haha, lets take a trip to Pep boys and buy all the 194 bulbs then return the ones we don't like

prodigymb

you can do LED....just not ebay LED. well you could do some aby ones too but i didn;t have a good luck setting that up using the diy wrtieup by e1000 with resistors under the trunk liner - the resistor was getting extremely hot where i didn't feel right leaving it there so i r
i emailed Ziza and they said these led bulbs will work in mercedes too. the new vw have similar setups to ours where they can't use led bulbs and these work well. i am going to try them on my car.
http://www.ecstuning.com/stage/edpd/...bcategory=ZIZA

MJ50

it can be done... LEDs

sti05ak

MJ,
Can you point me in the direction you bought these? Ones for the headlights and for the License plate LED's.

Thanks much!

MJ50

read previous posts and links...
it's been covered already...

ECBAOBAO

lmao, whoa so mean

so uh...back to the cheap Pep Boys lights, which ones will work and look good?

Thanks

prodigymb

AreL11

I wonder if these will actually work??



http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/White...Q5fAccessories

RonnieRenaldi

Why didn't you get the SMT Tower II or III, look like they're brighter than the regular SMT Tower?

Nait Sirhc

I can't figure out what's going on with mine... I replaced them with the white-light wedge bulbs and now they don't light up anymore. If I turn the lighting knob all the way to the left (to the left or right P) one side lights up, but the inner headlights never light up automatically anymore. Not when low beams are on, not when its on Auto, not as DRLs, or anything. If I go into the Lighting menu and change the beam from Manual to Consistent, it turns the xenons on.

Any ideas?

shardul

iTrader: (1)

I got them locally. They match the led perfectly. White light output.

Yacht Master

OT

LEDs for license

https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...ate-light.html

I finally had one go bad, lost 2 of the nine LEDs started to strobe, cause voltage fluctuations so I installed a 1 amp voltage regulator (Radio Shack), no more brown outs and spikes to kill my LEDS.

prodigymb

meh the 5 LED are very bright and the other ones are longer and you do see them sticking out into the housing when the car is off.