Replacing all the internal & external bulbs with LED's? Possible, anyone done?

[3706mht]

Evening all, just doing my yearly shake down of our 95' MK1 k11 .... it's come back from daughter No. 3 and wife will be using it (they bought a Q3 ...ok for some) and was just wandering about LED's?

Having replaced every bulb in the house with LED's down the cooker hood .... kid you not .... we saw good reductions in consumption and I wandered if it was possible to do all the bulbs in the Micra?

Not keen to spend a fortune but would like to do it right. Don't really want to replace entire clusters, more just bulb swaps.

Interested in anyone's experiences here and wandered how far I could take it .... not just headlights but all the read and internal bulbs?

Also interested where I could get them from? For the domestic market, there are loads of folks doing house LED's of all types but I've had less luck so far doing the same for the car ... would like to do the same on our old 106 as well. We use it for long Euro trips and anything I can do to reduce battery load would be great.

I'm sure one of you has looked at this and keen to learn from anyone who has been down this road.

All the best and thanks in advance

 

[Agent_Sm1th]

I've found that the cheap Chinese led headlight bulbs to melt or burn out quite quickly. I also had problems with led stop/tail lights back feeding and keeping my high level brake light on. Also they weren't bright enough with the stop illumination part imo.

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[3706mht]

Hi Agent Smith .... yes this was my fear. Having jumped early with domestic bulbs when they first came out, it was only last year that the quality and spec was such that I did the entire house .... very successfully. This feels a like bit similar to about 5 years back....it feels like something to do but that the knowledge and product quality isn't quite there.

I've just got a couple of cheap reg plate ones and a center interior one .... they look "ok" but impossible to tell .... they are as you say in a zip lock bag and from China ..... the odds are not high.

I'd really like to find some top quality ones and try them. Also I thought there might be a specialist site out there selling top draw ones but so far it's only ebay fodder.

The search continues ...... Thanks for the feedback

 

[Agent_Sm1th]

Sidelights, numberplate, and all the interior lights Inc dash aren't an issue, I've replaced all these with leds.

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[3706mht]

Yeah I'm about to find out .... .... this afternoons job

 

[ighhh]

I have fitted LED interior courtesy bulb, LED's for the speedometer cluster and heater panel.

 

[3706mht]

Super stuff, thanks for that - just replied to your message.

Are the cluster lights an easy fit? All lights currently work well enough, I'm not looking to customise or suchlike, just to try a better product.

Cheers

 

[Lil_Bean_March92]

I have a set of Beamtech H4s in my 92 March that I've been very happy with. I want to say they were $39 on Amazon Prime shipped and I've had no issues thus far in the three or so months I have been running them. they are sufficiently bright.

 

[nissan boy]

But bearing in mind in the uk, led headlight, hid, and xenon, arnt legal in a reflector type headlight so to restoring the beam pattern and such plus for some to be properly retro fitted to a car they have to have headlight washers

 

[Lil_Bean_March92]

But bearing in mind in the uk, led headlight, hid, and xenon, arnt legal in a reflector type headlight so to restoring the beam pattern and such plus for some to be properly retro fitted to a car they have to have headlight washers

Beam pattern is preeeetty damn close to factory without spending big money from The Retrofit Source. They aren't technically legal here either but.. If it keeps the pattern then I will use it. I blind people regardless of bulbs cause RHD lights in a LHD country.

 

[nissan boy]

Yeah fair enough , just got to say , at least who does go that way knows

 

[Lil_Bean_March92]

Yeah fair enough , just got to say , at least who does go that way knows

Faie enough