I recently stumbled across these jdm led interior lights and by looking at them they look pretty legit. What are your guys takes on these? Super Bright LED Car Interior Lights | Toyota Prius SMD LED Car Lights Photos:
Not sure about theirs but $8 a piece isn't too bad at all. I was thinking about getting those before but I wouldn't replace the visor lights. I think they would be too bright and distracting if they were used in the middle of the night.
I also ordered from iJDM on Wed, and they shipped Thrus. Got some strip lighting and a few LED bulbs coming.
So what are the differences between the Super Brights and the normal LEDs? Do these packages convert all internal lights? And are these the right licence plate lights? 9-LED 2825 168 194 Car LED bulbs for Toyota License Plate Lights
These lights are very good my buddy has a custom shop and installed these in his customers cars for years then in the last year switched to v-LEDs lights higher Luman light with same power consumption. If I have all my lights lit at night it looks like the sun . Check out v-LEDs before you buy but both set-ups will work
The difference between the super brights and regular led's is the lumen output of lights.The super brights are a higher output light. As far as license plate bulbs check out Philips web site for fitments. Where to Buy Lookup
I guess I was more looking for anecdotal experience - are the super brights too bright? Are there pics of each side by side? Re: the LP lights - are you saying those JDM ones would not work? I don't quite understand that philips website you listed - I can find the list for my make/model/year, but it doesnt seem to link to LED products. Sorry, I'm missing something.
New Guy - there is really no such thing as "JDM" LEDs. All JDM means is Japanese Domestic Market. Every LED you see on the web likely comes from China. There's nothing wrong with that at all, it's just a matter of fact. "Super Bright" is also nothing more than an arbritary marketing term. I think you are confusing it with "superbrightleds.com" which is the name of an LED store. What Stefano is referring to are actually called High Powered SMDs (surface mounted diodes). All LEDs you find on the web, as far as quality goes, is luck when you're talking about retrofits. Some will last forever, some will last a week. Now, you can pay $1 on eBay or $7 with a US store. The only difference might be customer service, warranty, and accuracy of color. Really high quality LEDs are expensive to make and you typically don't see them online on car shops. The even better stuff comes from the car manufacturer, but they're too cheap to put that in all our vehicles, which is too bad because then nobody would be having this problem. As far as your question about brightness, in my experience, SMDs are not too bright and are perfect for my application of LED retrofits. That is, if you can get them to last long enough. The Philips website will tell you what types of bulbs you need, not tell you exactly what LEDs to use. The type number is universal, however. Think of it as a fitment and ignore the letters after the numbers. So a 168CP bulb means you need a 168 LED (which is also called 194/168). In any case, I think the Philips site is a little harder to use than the Sylvania site in terms of giving you a part number. Try this instead; http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/LampReplacementGuide/
Matt, did you replace the rear hatch light? I bought the 9-smd bulb from them and the bulb was too wide for the fixture cover.
Yes I did. That bulb I got from eBay (2 for $2) and it was a 6-LED festoon bulb. I really had to bend the clips back to make it fit. I felt like I was going to break it, but I didn't. Perhaps you could use your 9-LED festoon for the center dome?
