Looking to replace bulbs for sidelights, stop, number plates etc, pretty much everything external

 

Can anyone advise on what to purchase, links would be handy too

 

Thanks in advance...

Sidelights are just 501 bulbs, as are number plate lights and the two outside lights on the overhead interior light.

Central interior light and the two rear boot lights are 42mm Festoon.

Puddle lights in the front doors are 38mm Festoon.

Glovebox light is a tiny little festoon (25mm?)

 

I always go for the Philips LED's, simply because they last and last. Many cheap LED's blow easily.

Cool, thanks for that - what about stop and tail lights??

 

Can you get reverse ones too

 

(This is new to me, you may have noticed!)

Probably not legal for road use, and since there is only a single bulb aperture for each, the spread of light would not be wide enough. LED's are a very direct focus. In fact, depite my boot lights being much much brighter than standard, I can't see a thing in there since the light does not spread around like it used to (my boot is usually full of guitar gear).

 

The number plate lights aren't legal either, but I wasn't bothered about that since they're not pointing backwards.

OK, thanks for letting me know, one's mentioned it is then...

Osram do alternatives that may be slightly cheaper and of equal quality, but I haven't tried them for myself.

4000K white, is the really white light, rather than the blue tinged white.

I have a thread up for led reverse lights tat I bought for swmbos lexus, they didn't fit so they ended up in the octy.

Picture heavy

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/289081-led-reverse-bulbs/

and since there is only a single bulb aperture for each, the spread of light would not be wide enough. LED's are a very direct focus.

Not all led bulbs are focused

and since there is only a single bulb aperture for each, the spread of light would not be wide enough. LED's are a very direct focus.

Not all led bulbs are focused

The LED itself is. It takes the work of a lens to spread the light. Also, an LED is not a bulb.

Edited 21 September, 201312 yr by demonufo

My 2p's worth.

 

Over the years, I have buggered about with getting LED replacements, from a variety of sources, to replace external lighting bulbs for a few different cars.

 

The common theme is that, no matter what I bought, and regardless of what I paid, most of the units either died a complete death, or started to play up - like flickering etc - within a very short space of time.

 

Obviously OEM fitments are pretty decent - but in my experience, the majority of aftermarket stuff is crap.

 

I now only use quality branded normal bulbs - which last for a long time, with a consistent output.

The reason for this, is most of them had no current limiting, and were designed for 12V use. Of course, we all know that 12V electrics are actually nominally running between 13.2 and 13.8VDC, and certainly go over 14VDC at peak alternator output, depending on the quality of the regulator.

The decent branded LED's actually have current limiting built in. All it requires to protect those cheap units, is to get the genuine voltage specs, and calculate the required value of resistor using the voltage drop across the unit. No more overvoltage = no more blown leds. Of course, nobody wants to start splicing resistors into their wiring loom though.