One of the back burner projects I had sitting on my to do list was LED conversion up front.
When I scored a pair of JDM fogs a couple years ago, I was on the hunt for the deepest urine-yellow output from HID bulbs. I ended up deciding on Philips 3000k d2s bulbs (85122YX). After extensive work having to be done on the fogs to make them fit, the output still had a hint of hulk green hue. After reading up on HID-planet, I read that the bulbs had a 60 hour “burn-in” period. Well, two years or so later and the green hue never really went away. I’m thinking most of the users running these have posted about their great results because they are inside a fog headlamp with yellow film over the lens. This is most certainly not an option for me as I want to retain the factory look on the outside.
Thanks to the pandemic allotting me some extra downtime, the hunt began for complete LED conversion on the front fascia. Purchased a couple products to test out and ultimately decided on a combination of some eBay no name junk and a brand that is slowly rising up the ranks on LED boards. For headlights, I went with Boslla Bullet B1 hb4. They come with a detachable mounting plate so that it’s possible to fit our metal retaining ring over the bulb and secure it properly. There is no external resistor box so the wiring and terminal fit inside the dust cap, albeit, I did have to remove the leads from the OEM headlight terminal clip.
For the fog lights, I ordered some expensive bulbs from Diode Dynamics and super cheap $10 junk off eBay lol. The diode dynamics did win in brightness but it came attached to a separate resistor/relay box. The eBay light was surprisingly a deeper urine-yellow than the Diode Dynamics and didn’t have a relay box attached. Since my fog-lamp wiring harness is wired to OEM JDM fog switch with a proper relay and fuse configuration, I wasn’t too concerned with the straight wiring on the $10 eBay bulbs. Winner: Stone Banks h3 3000k LED.
Next up was the turn signals on the front bumper. I ended up doing some mexi-wiring a while back and fixed it so that the parking bulbs and turn signal blink together and stay off in “parking light” mode as well (same applies to my JDM side-markers). Since I already had the Boslla Bullet B1 in my cart, I decided to throw in Boslla 1156 P21w LED which has a built in anti-hyper flash module. It fit perfectly, taking up possibly the max amount of space inside the turn signal housing lol. Very satisfied with results, plenty bright and of course no hyper flash.
For the parking bulbs, picked up Synetic USA 168 amber LED from eBay. Super bright and fit snug and deep inside the housing. Side-markers, Auxito 168 amber LED is plenty bright and a bit stubbier than the Synetic, fitting just fine inside the side-marker housing.
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