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Nice job on the LEDs. Do check on your license plate LEDs from time to time. I've noticed some LED elements failing after several weeks of use. I'm assuming you are using the LED festoon bulbs on your license plate.

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wheres your boost gauge? oh right. haha. Your licence plate and dome lights look just like mine. Nice job on the gauges, now just gotta do the rest of them!

BACK OFF!!!! :angry::lol: haha... yea yea.. What's merlins sig say.. If i can't have turbo power i want to look good going slow :rolleyes: I even tried the trip computer but got pissed off and just ended up using blue sharpie on oem bulbs. Not as blue but still kinda matches. Yea about the rest of it.. I don't know if I have a year like you to spend haha

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P.s. Yea the license plate bulbs i used were 9-piece 194 bulbs. Incredibly bright.

Nice job on the LEDs. Do check on your license plate LEDs from time to time. I've noticed some LED elements failing after several weeks of use. I'm assuming you are using the LED festoon bulbs on your license plate.

Thanks.. funny that you mention the license plate bulbs.. I have one flickering from time to time :ph34r:

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Thanks.. funny that you mention the license plate bulbs.. I have one flickering from time to time :ph34r:

Flickering is a sign that they are about to fail. From experimenting with different LED bulbs, I've noticed the ones with fewer elements last longer than those with more. My single element 194 LED bulbs have yet to fail whilst I've already gone through several sets of 9-element, 44mm, 39mm festoons and 5-element 194 bulbs.

I think heat is the culprit for those failures.

I like the 'Super Star' LEDs because they come as either one or two incredibly bright LEDs per fixture and they have a nice metal case which acts as a heat dissipator.

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I've already gone through several sets of 9-element, 44mm, 39mm festoons and 5-element 194 bulbs.

I like the 'Super Star' LEDs because they come as either one or two incredibly bright LEDs per fixture and they have a nice metal case which acts as a heat dissipator.

I currently have the 9 element hyper white leds in now. I had the 1 element leds in there but the effect isn't as prominant. I have 6 element led bulbs in my instrument cluster. They better last til i move to FL.

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I like the 'Super Star' LEDs because they come as either one or two incredibly bright LEDs per fixture and they have a nice metal case which acts as a heat dissipator.

thats what im using, no problems yet, no flicker, been a couple weeks. They are bright as hell too. I would recommend greatly.

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thats what im using, no problems yet, no flicker, been a couple weeks. They are bright as hell too. I would recommend greatly.

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Here are those 'Super Stars' in a 194 package

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In a 31mm festoon package

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Or a 44mm festoon package

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The only problem I noted was that the 194 Super Star LED bulbs give off a vapor that clouds your reflectors, if you use them as DRL in your headlamp reflector housing. I immediately took them off and used some PIAA LEDs instead, which I've been using for the past 6+ months and have yet to fail.

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Just thought I'd post my sources for LED for those interested in upgrading.

PIAA LED site

Autolumination

SuperBrightLEDs

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