LED parkers bulb

[drez]

Hey all,

Just want to share my experience fitting these LED parkers bulb on my s2 galant.
Bought it from ebay for couple bucks, pulled out the front grill and headlights off my car, installed these 2 bulbs, then found out that the left hand side parkers didn't light up. Strange..

Test it with multimeter and found out that the left hand side parking light bulb holder has -12 Volt DC instead of +12 Volt DC.
So I swapped the wire around to get +12 Volt reading, then the LED is ON.

I think being LED light the current can only travel one way, diode principal.
But is this only happened to my car, or all other legnum/galant will have -12 DC volt on left hand side headlight as well?? :huh:

 

[Guest]

Interesting. Got any pics with them installed or links to the product?

 

[naughtika]

same happened to my driver side parkers..

 

[Guest]

Same thing happened when I installed them on my old Magna, the LED lihts only work in one polarity. So if it doesn't work you pull it out and rotate the bulb 180-degrees and reinstall and it should work again.

 

[drez]

basically the product is just those normal parkers bulb but the LED version, i'll put up some pics later when i finished installing HID on my fog light too

@ naughtika: so its not only my car then, good, i thought mitsu japan somehow stuffed my car headlight wiring

 

[drez]

@ esemte: yes you right can rotate it if the bulb is the wedge type.
but our one being BA9 where the polarity is fixed on the bulb and the holder therefore we need to cut the wire manually and swapped it around

 

[Guest]

Ahh yes of course, good point. I should have known that as I only replaced my parkers last week

 

[SiliconAngel]

@ esemte: yes you right can rotate it if the bulb is the wedge type.
but our one being BA9 where the polarity is fixed on the bulb and the holder therefore we need to cut the wire manually and swapped it around

Having replaced nearly every globe in the car with LED's, I can tell you with certainty you don't have to cut a single wire - you can use a jeweller's screwdriver to release the pins in the connector and just swap them over All the indicators in my car (so I assume all VR4s) were reversed polarity, so I had to swap the pins on every single one (and I had to replace my relay with an LED friendly one). Most of the other bulbs just swapped straight in, although brake lights need in-line resistors or you'll trip out the AYC and Engine warning sensors.

 

[naughtika]

hey Trev, any way you can share how you wired that up resistor? as well as what type/rating it is..

 

[Guest]

Interesting. Got any pics with them installed or links to the product?

I'm still interested in some recommendations, there seems to be many different types.

Some would probably just make a forward facing pin-point, but others look to many outward facing LEDS and would light the reflector better I assume. So if anyone has pics and can tell me which type they are it would be great mate

They are expensive buggers to test out via trial and error.

 

[drez]

i'll upload some pics tonite if I can, i got my fog light HID installed too y'day

 

[TomTom]

Those are the ones I bought via the last GB (xenonlook.com):

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Model: 5xLED BA9S Hyper White

Emu, Mortz and x17x bought them along with me. Mortz managed to break one during installation but thats sorted and I think they are all happy with the result.

 

[Guest]

Very pretty!

 

[Guest]

Just got around to doing mine, the difference it makes is amazing!

 

[Guest]

I will also add that the LEDs worked fine first go in both parkers and I didn't need to change either side's polarity like some other people have mentioned

 

[Guest]

One of the LED parker bulbs has blown already! Looks like the little surface mount resistor has been fried, I assume the LEDs themselves are still fine but sadly no-go.

 

[Kitty's VR4]

How long did they last??? 2Days !!!! might have been a faulty unit

I'm using these, they have been in just over 9 months with now issues so far.

 

[Guest]

These are the ones I bought.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2pcs...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

I think I will change to the different style like you bought, Kat. Where did you buy them?

They may well have been faulty. I took them apart and there is a little resistor inside the metal bayonet housing that had turned quite black.

I was also concerned with this type because they are quite long and I think it might have been touching the low-beam bulb shield.

On the plus side, I figured out how to fix the parkers to make it really easy to take in and out. First time around you need to remove your headlight. Then unscrew the flat metal plate the parkers clip into (not the bulb holder thing) from the headlight reflector. On that plate bend the two little tabs outwards slightly. Now you can easily clip & unclip with a minimum of effort even with the headlights still in the car.

 

[Kitty's VR4]

From Ebay, current Item # 200437641927

Just out of curiousity was it the left or right that blew?

Ow, I did have to switch the wires on left side to get it working !

These put a nice blue tinge in the headlights at night.

 

[Guest]

Driver's side blew.

How bright are those ones you bought? The 5 LED ones I had would light up the garage wall in front of the car.

Just went out and changed both sides back to standard bulbs now so the car doesn't look bung-eyed.