LED Side lights

[HazArc]

Anyone installed the Halfords LED 501 sidelights with the additional resistor? Curious if they fit into the unit. My E85 has xenon’s.

Or, is it just easier to get some LED 501 bulbs on eBay that have the built in CANBUS. Looking at LED interior bulbs and the number plate lighting sets too.

Thanks

 

[Scooba_Steve]

Anyone installed the Halfords LED 501 sidelights with the additional resistor? Curious if they fit into the unit. My E85 has xenon’s.

Or, is it just easier to get some LED 501 bulbs on eBay that have the built in CANBUS. Looking at LED interior bulbs and the number plate lighting sets too.

Thanks

Don't do either. Buy a decent non-canbus set and code out the bulb checks. Philips or Osram will probably outlast the car.

Anything with a resistor will get hot. Defeats the point of putting in LEDs imho. Any with integrated resistors, i.e. canbus compatible LEDs will simply burn out, the packages can't handle the heat.

No canbus checks for interior or number plates. But you can get OE LED numberplate lights which are infinitely better (not rice level bright) that will also last a long time. To do it properly you need the units and new connectors.

 

[HazArc]

Anyone installed the Halfords LED 501 sidelights with the additional resistor? Curious if they fit into the unit. My E85 has xenon’s.

Or, is it just easier to get some LED 501 bulbs on eBay that have the built in CANBUS. Looking at LED interior bulbs and the number plate lighting sets too.

Thanks

Don't do either. Buy a decent non-canbus set and code out the bulb checks. Philips or Osram will probably outlast the car.

Anything with a resistor will get hot. Defeats the point of putting in LEDs imho. Any with integrated resistors, i.e. canbus compatible LEDs will simply burn out, the packages can't handle the heat.

No canbus checks for interior or number plates. But you can get OE LED numberplate lights which are infinitely better (not rice level bright) that will also last a long time. To do it properly you need the units and new connectors.

Thanks. Completely makes sense! However, I don’t have a means to code.
I have been looking at the number plate LED units on eBay that come with the adapter cables.

 

[Scooba_Steve]

Thanks. Completely makes sense! However, I don’t have a means to code.

You can get cables on eBay. Or maybe someone local can help.

I have been looking at the number plate LED units on eBay that come with the adapter cables.

Avoid that cheap crap. OE LED numberplate units 63267193294, connectors 61138365340. Carefully unclip using a pin/pick and remove the existing connectors (not cut, no need with thought and 2 mins of patience) then slide the metal pins into the new ones until they click.

 

[solo_the_lad]

Anyone installed the Halfords LED 501 sidelights with the additional resistor? Curious if they fit into the unit. My E85 has xenon’s.

Or, is it just easier to get some LED 501 bulbs on eBay that have the built in CANBUS. Looking at LED interior bulbs and the number plate lighting sets too.

Thanks

Don't do either. Buy a decent non-canbus set and code out the bulb checks. Philips or Osram will probably outlast the car.

Anything with a resistor will get hot. Defeats the point of putting in LEDs imho. Any with integrated resistors, i.e. canbus compatible LEDs will simply burn out, the packages can't handle the heat.

No canbus checks for interior or number plates. But you can get OE LED numberplate lights which are infinitely better (not rice level bright) that will also last a long time. To do it properly you need the units and new connectors.

I attempted to have some coding done remotely after installing switchback halo's, but my ECU didnt like that at all. They would just flash irregularly when turn signals were activated, so I ended up just wiring them direct to battery and bypassing the headlight connectors/ ECU. After having this done, my inner indicator bulbs dont turn on when my parking lights are on. They do however turn on when I use the turn signal indicator. Any idea how to fix this? Also I have LED bulbs with resistors and they've been operating fine for a few years, though I am sure they are not efficient by any means.

 

[Scooba_Steve]

After having this done, my inner indicator bulbs dont turn on when my parking lights are on. They do however turn on when I use the turn signal indicator. Any idea how to fix this?

Sounds like the car detecting a sidelight fault and putting the outer indicator on as a marker. Coding out the bulb checks would fix it if so.

Also I have LED bulbs with resistors and they've been operating fine for a few years, though I am sure they are not efficient by any means.

They will draw the same current as regular bulbs, so no power saving. Yours may be better quality than most, or bigger. W5W tend to burn out quickly, flicker etc. as they have to dissipate 5W of heat in a tiny package. If the resistor is in the loom then it's usually fine apart from the butchering of the loom compared to just coding the checks out.