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Old 01-19-2006, 07:09 AM
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Default Halo LED burnt out...need some advice

I know I've read here where some guys had their LED's go out in their halos. Well last night I joined that list. I tried to look for the thread but I can't seem to find it. I went back through 45 pages with no luck and search only came up with 3 threads on halos.

Anyway, how do you go about fixing this? I know I'm going to have to take the lense off to get to the LED, but what size am I going to need and what color? I'm thinking that I'm going to have to do both headlights b/c it's going to be impossible to match what's currently on there.

A little feedback please.
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I dont know that Ive ever seen a thread with people actually talking about fixing the problem. I have seen the thread of people talking about them blowing out though. Obviously the easiest way to solve this is to buy a new pair, unreasonable, I know. I cant tell you how to fix it but I know how I will fix mine, yea you will have to remove the lense, and Im not sure how hidden the LED is so that may require a little bit of cutting as well (or maybe not). Anyway I know Im going to want a brighter LED in there because the one that comes with it isnt bright enough so all Id have to do is find a brighter LED with the same voltage and I should be fine. Course I hope I never have to do that.
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http://www.ledgauges.com/camaroproducts.html

see if you can get intouch with this guy to see if he will install them in yours i plan on trying it when i get another vehicle if you can let me know ...please
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also if you have your halos run with the fogs you could try running in to the drl and then tinting the drl that way youll get about a good hour or so to display ...depending on if your out at that hour or not
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Well looking at it last night there's 2 LED's in each halo. Now I just have one that is burnt out. The other one is fine, but the halo is very dull. It doesn't look like it's going to be a hard project, I just need to know what kind of LED it is. Ive been to brightleds.com and couldn't find anything close to them.
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I'd swap them both out while it's apart. Sounds like they're using cheap LEDs and the other will probably go out shortly. Should be able to just get a 5mm LED and figure out how to get into the lense to swap them. Should be easy once you figure how to do.
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uuuhm i know this is kind of an old thread but i was wanting to know what the outcome was. thanks!
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this happened to me.
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how did you go about it fixing it?
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Youll have to pull the housing apart kind of like you would do for the whistler mod. Then youll have to replace the LED and find a proper resistor for it according to the voltage its receiving.
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so you then replace it with what ever size one you want or dose it have a certain size that has to fit in there?
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I havent seen it outside of the halo but theres only 2 sizes it could be 3mm or 5mm, and Im going to bet its 5mm. Orangeapeel could answer that better though.
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Actually LS1_SS could answer it better. You will have to take it apart like the whistler mod though, that is how i had to do it.
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Originally Posted by sycotic_reject
how did you go about it fixing it?
you do what i did!



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