Did anybody try this LED for parking lights?

I've had great success with the 5-SMD LED 194's

 

I have those iJDMToys but they're on the blue side. I'm using these for the interior as they're much too blue next to LED headlights.

If you want white, get the 5100K "natural white" WLED-WHP5 from superbrightleds, which is actually too white compared to stock LED headlights.

 

Are the connectors to the parking lights the same as the interior map lights?

 

If you mean the base type, then yes.

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To the OP, you need to be careful that the LEDs used for parking lights don't get too close to the headlight cover. They might damage the plastic if it gets too hot.

The ones you pictured look a bit tall/long.

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How hot do LEDs get? Surely not enough to melt or damage the housing? I'm genuinely curious because I'm looking to change all the incandescent bulbs to LEDs so they match the HIDs color. So far I did all the interior and rear license plates. The two parking lights are the only ones left.

 

The parking light bulbs are mounted with the bulbs pointing up. If the LED is too tall, and there are LEDs on the tip, then there can be too much heat, even from LEDs.

For the parking light application, LEDs mounted on the sides are better, since the front view is the side of the bulb. Besides, how bright do they have to be? They are parking lights.

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The small plastic-encapsulated SMD-type (Surface Mount Device) LED retrofits should not get hot enough to damage the headlight cover, even if they are right up against it; that said, they also do not have much output compared to the high-power LED retrofits..

IMO, SMD-type bulbs are great for lights where visibility to others is the goal, eg marker lights, but they have insufficient output for applications where illumination for driving visibility is the goal, eg, headlights, parking lights, reverse lights. DRLs kind of fall into both categories: SMDs are good enough if you just want others to be able to see you, but they are completely insufficient if you expect them to illuminate the area ahead of you in a dark parking garage.. For illumination applications, you need the high-power LED bulbs, which typically feature ribbed aluminum collars, and aluminum disks on the back of the PC boards, etc that act as heat sinks to keep the LED dies cool, and with these, you do need to watch how close they get to surrounding plastic materials, but as well, with the high power LEDs, you get what you pay for.. The cheaper ones either don't put out nearly as much light as they claim and/or they have really poor heat sinking and bad solder joints and they fail in 6 months to a year.. The high quality versions are fairly decent, but even the best of them do not put out as much light as a filament bulb: I replaced all my bulbs on my Classic with LED bulbs and ended up returning to filament bulbs on the reverse lights (others could tell that I was in reverse, so that was no problem, but at night, the LEDs simply did not provide enough illumination for me to see and back up safely) and the brake lights (they were fine at night, but in the day time, if the sun was at my back, the red lenses were washed out due to the sunlight and drivers behind could not see them lighting up until they were right up my nice person, so it was a safety issue)..

For the interior lights, you're actually better off with some of the new LED panels which provide brighter, more even illumination in a better color than the dinky bulb-replacements..

On my C2, I've done the interior dome lights with the aforementioned LED panels, but I haven't touched the body bulbs yet: the tail lights are already LED, but I'm thinking of replacing at least the marker lights with LEDs..

What I'd love to find are a set of those high power Cree LED headlights with a driver circuit that is smart enough to dim the LEDs when the DRLs are on vs. the high beams.. I have a good set HIDs on the low beam, but on the high beams, when you may be turning them on/off on the highway for oncoming traffic, this cycling is extremely hard on HID bulbs/circuitry (hot restrike), so LEDs are ideal, but I've asked, and the driver circuits are simply wide-input range buck converter circuits that convert anywhere from 9V-30V down into a regulated 4V for the LED chip; if you put in lower than 9V, they don't even light up, so with these, I'd basically be on high-beams all the time.. If they were a bit cheaper, I would consider buying a set of the high/low versions 9003 bulbs which turn on only one LED chip for low beams and both for high and build a simple relay circuit to do DRL vs highs and then try to change the mounting flange to fit a 9005 housing, but at an average price of $100/set, it's a pricey experiment.. You'd think that with DRLs becoming mandatory in many jurisdictions that this is a function that they would support out of the box..

 

i bought some 3W leds from ebay from Japan they are super bright. pictures to follow.

 

A few members have burned the parking light cover this way so it can happen. However, none of the LEDs pictured in this thread (including iJDMToy) are tall enough to causing burning. It'd have to be much taller than 16-SMD.

 

looking forward to the pictures/
ebay link?
are they white white or rather blueish?

 

I had some super bright ones installed for only about a month and they burned up, damaging the inside of the headlight assembly lenses with smoke residue.

Some of the super bright ones aren't meant to be on all the time so they get too hot for their own good. I'd be careful.

I now use these, which I think look cooler anyways:

Amazon.com: PIAA 19173 168 Plasma Ion Yellow Wedge Bulb - 2 Piece: Automotive

 

I bought these from eBay for interior. So far so good. I bought another set to try the shorter ones for parking lights. We'll see if those work out or not. If not, I'll keep them as spares for my interior. I believe they were $27 from S. Korea.








SGH-T999 ?

 

There white looking here is the link:
4 x T10 194 168 High Power 3W 4 LED White Turn Signal Reverse Light Bulb Lamp | eBay

 

I just got mine in from IJDMtoy after seeing this post. I wanted something less blue then my old ones to match my HIDs more. They are actually shorter then the LEDs I previously had ill upload a pic in a few no night time shots yet. New ones in the right old is I believe 5smd.

 

BTW, here is a pic of the one that burned up for me. I would just avoid any that look like this (ie. flat panel surface mount type):

 

Any chance you have a picture of those? I've been thinking of those, since the led ones I'm using at the moment are way blue compared to the factory LED headlights.