Right. Thanks. I'm gona skip the ash tray and the glove box.

 

all white LED's

 

sorry ^ i realized it was a dumb question, but my real q is, do you think a 31x10 would work instead of the 31x5? is there enough room in there, or are they snug, diameter-wise

 

:O!!! the 03-05 have this dumb board with the bulb welded on. syshs, you have an 06 right? i popped out my vanity mirror to find it wont work with the vanity led !!!!

 

^ Yes, I have a 06... the vanity led I bought wasnt fitting in either, I had to chip off some plastic around the area where you fit in the bulb, for the led to fit.

 

no no, he's saying we don't have festoon bulbs in our vanity mirrors, i'ts some kind of tiny bulb that's welded on...

 

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It looks exactly like it does in the pic... it's a metal board with a bulb soldered on

Anybody have a solution?

 

I just took mine apart and have the same thing. I think the LED bulbs will work, just need to solder the ends.

 

if you decide to do this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE create a DIY, even if it's rough, it will start the whole revolution

 

Works fine. I took one out of my door and touched the contacts and it worked, in till i dropped it between my damn seat.

Ima order some of the smaller ones.

 

so maybe you could just solder the wires that stick out from to board, to the ends of a small festoon bulb?

 

Yeah, Just gotta make sure on the ends. I had to flip the bulb and then it lit up.

 

I actually just cut the bulb off the board and soldered some LEDs on... I'll put together a DIY when I get more LEDs for the other light. But a bulb won't work as there isn't enough space under that cover...

But what I did was take 2 vanity mirror festoon bulbs, broke the ends off and soldered them inline with each other using connectors, so I now have 6 LEDs instead of just 3. No need to worry about resistors as they are already on the boards.

I also have some stock bulbs and a few extra LEDs coming in BTW...

 

Could use some pics. I pulled mine out, was going to solder on the bulb, but am afraid it wont clear. I purchased the festoon bulbs reading this thread, then I got them in and popped off the cover and saw this garbage bulb for the 04.

What specs on the LED, where did you purchase? Thanks for the help!

 

I ordered the vanity light bulbs from VLEDs... they're the slimmer festoons with 3 LEDs on a single layer board. If you look on the back, there's a micro resistor soldered in already, so you should't have to worry about making space for a regular sized resistor.

All I did was cut the bulb off leaving the wire pieces, glued the LED board in place, and soldered those to the ends of the LED board, making sure to connect the positive to the positive side, and the negative to the negative. Unlike most halogens, LEDs are not reversible, so if you wire up an LED wrong, it won't work (Light Emitting Diodes). It's pretty easy to tell which side is positive and which is negative, but I need to take another look to be certain before I tell you guys which is which. Standard LEDs usually have one wire longer than the other, while surface mounts (the smaller square ones) always face a certain direction. If you take a close look at them, there's a beveled corner.

If you want to put two of the boards on, you just use connectors and do the same, keeping the boards inline (- to -, + to -, + to +, like batteries in a flashlight). Otherwise, you will burn out one or possibly a few of the LEDs... or they'll just burn out faster, if you're lucky.