Interior LED Lighting?

I ordered a few of the WLED-WHP5 from superbrightled's as well and just installed them. Wow, they are great bulbs! I just hope they last and don't have burnout problems...

I had installed Philips Blue Vision 5W5 bulbs when I also changed out my front and rear turn signal lamps with Philips Silver Vision bulbs. For those who have not seen them, you can see pics of the car here with them installed: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...-parking-lights-rear-license-plate-bulbs.html

Now, here are some pics of the LED install for the front parking lights and the rear license plate lights. On the LEFT in each picture are the LED's and on the RIGHT in each picture are the Philips Blue Vision bulbs I had in there. They were whiter than the stock bulbs, but now you can see how even they appear yellow compared to these LED's.



















OLD BULB IN PARKING LIGHT HOUSING:






NEW LED BULB IN PARKING LIGHT HOUSING:

 

No, I only replaced the front parking lights with LED's and the rear license plate lights with LED's. I do not want to bother with LED's for the turn signals mainly because of the fast blink and the extra work involved to get them to blink at a regular rate. Also, how long are they really on? Not long enough for me to want to spend the extra money to replace them, albeit a little bit of money. I am very happy with the Silverstar's I have in there now since they at least get rid of the yellow tint in the housing. And another thing, they just don't seem bright enough for me (the led's as turn signal bulbs)

I just went down and replaced the bulbs in the front doors and the map light with the 4 philips bluevision 5w5 I had left over (they're the ones I took out when putting in the LED's). Right away I was able to see the difference they make in the door/map light. Not like the LED's of course but still better and at least they are continuing to get used.

 

How do you remove the door courtesy bulb? I took the cover off the door but I couldn't figure out which tab to push to remove that cover to access the bulb.

TIA!

 

I couldn't find WLED-WHP5 but is this the one?

"WLED-xHP5"

 

Those are them, but the X just gets replaced with the letter designation for the color of the LED. Drop down the menu and you'll see the letter change for the color of each bulb. Like if you want white the X becomes a W and so on.

 

Ok, I suck at trying to explain things like this but here are some pics on how to do it... I left out how to get it out of the door as this is simple and you said you did it already anyways Tideland...

For anyone else though, do unclip the whole unit from it's wire connector. If not you'll be fiddling around on the ground the whole time with a short 2 inch wire attached to it lol.


another view of the clip after pushing in on it and lifting up

 

While I'm doing this I took quick pics of how to remove the map light covers since some said they were breaking their clips.

Like I said, I SUCK at explaining how I do things sometimes so go easy! And yes, I used a knife but it is so dull it's basically a sturdy piece of steel which won't flex, nothing more...

I removed them like 4 times using this method and haven't broken a clip (yet! watch, now I'll jinx myself).

 

:redface: D'oh! Should've known

 

Question:

How bright are they? I ask because the G2 Prius' rear taillights are kinda dim and when I had to replace them, I was surprised that they're of the 192/168 type. So that got me thinking... if we're replacing maplights with LEDs, could we swap out the rear taillight and hopefully get some extra brightness?

 

Pretty bright Tideland... I think they would more than suffice as rear taillights. And you can even get them in red LED's though i don't know if they would be brighter than the white going through a red housing... I think someone did buy the amber ones and they said they were very bright as well (for replacing the front light behind the yellow reflector. It's a clear bulb by OEM but they went with the amber anyway which I bet looks nice)

 

It's a red bulb going through a clear lens (Gen 2 remember?). I'll keep that in mind. If it doesn't work out, I can always use the reds as door courtesy lights (which reminds me, I also couldn't get the Gen 2's bulb out lol)

 

That's right, it was clear. I thought for some reason the plastic inside the housing around the bulb was red and the exterior housing plastic ws clear...

I think it will work really well Tideland. Here's 2 pictures. One shows the front lit with just the LED parking lights on and the other one (poorly) shows the brightness of the rear license plate LED bulbs.

 

Well the exterior housing was clear, yes but there's this small internal housing around the bulb and I think that might....you know what? I'm not even sure now lol. But I do know that the bulb itself is red.


Well it's got to be a distance thing, right? It has to be viewable at 150m with x lumens or whatever the standard is. I do like the licence plate lights =).

Are there any softer LED lights? I tried replacing the interior one for the smart but the white light was a bit too strong compared to the softer yellow light of the regular halogen.

 

what do you mean by "low angle"? As in a narrow beam of light?

Well it's not so much brightness for the interior lights but moreso soft light instead of the harsher white light (which isn't a problem for the licence plates or parking lights where i want them white)

 

Yeah, that's a benefit of LED's, you can focus the light or spread it out. The ones he showed you basically point the light straight out of it moreso than spreading it 180 degrees around.

How did they work out for the map lights antiflash? Do they focus it too straight down and while on hurt your eyes a bit at night?