This guide is a basic upgrade to LED from halogen bulbs. 

 

Later on i will try to fix the "bulb out" warning on the speedo display and replace internal halogens with LED. Guide will also be upgraded with how to replace the signal lights with LED.

 

"Bulb out" is ONLY a visual warning. There are NO BEEP SOUNDS or other annoying factors that would remind you a bulb is not working.

 

Everything in this guide is bought from:

http://www.powerbulbs.com/eu/store/category/led-car-bulbs

 

I like quality, hence the Philips X-Treme series. 

 

Costs:

 

Bulbs bought P21/5W (P21W on the picture was for another car)

 

Installation

 

Bulb out warning after installation

 

Results

Great DIY post Cown!

 

Thx for all the Info and pics!

Just a little update.

 

It turned out that the LED's from Philips were too bright and i wondered a lot about it. Turned out that the breaking side of the socket which is only suppose to give 12V when you are actually breaking, was bleeding about 2V all the time. The reason is because a halogen bulb has a lot of resistance and hence will not be affected by this. The LED on the other hand was trying to compensate by giving the crystal some extra juice and therefore making it more bright than it actually should. 

 

I solved the issue by adding 2 resistors to each lamp. I used 25W and immediately there were no problems. I don't actually have any pictures, but i'll try to get some when the weather gets better. I also added a resistor to the fog light socket, which was also bleeding 1.7V. I do have pictures of the resistors:

 

I also had the bulb out error removed via VCDs. It only took about 60 seconds for a friend of mine. 

That 2v is what is used to check the bulb continuity.

Funny then it still does it even though it has been disabled in the ECU. 

Not all ecu's supports LED lights

But if you plug in oem LED numberplate lights there are no fault light

Very good post and a lot of clear pics!

Keep us posted if you do the front or the inside.

Greetz

Very interesting. Nice one.

Oh and by the way, the tail bulbs are 'incandescent' not 'halogen' (:

This guide is a basic upgrade to LED from halogen bulbs.

But... You should tell as that your LED are for off road use only... not road legal... and expensive as well...

But... You should tell as that your LED are for off road use only... not road legal... and expensive as well...

Thanks and not illegal in Denmark. Also, if you think it's expensive = don't buy. 

Just to bump this up for any ideas what bulbs we can use for headlights? and possibly DRL? Thanks!

On 21/04/2014 at 10:28, Cown said:

I also had the bulb out error removed via VCDs. It only took about 60 seconds for a friend of mine. 

 

How he made that possible? I’ve been trying a lot to take a bulb warning from led drl that I installed