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Old 11-17-2009, 08:50 AM
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Default LED Lighting Strips - 2006 Impala SS (56k death)

Well, while my car is falling apart, I'm still wasting small amounts of money here and there to at least make it look like a winner while it's standing still Donrome gets the kudos for bringing pics of his LEDs over to NAIOA...and that started everyone off.

Here's the latest mod...LED lighting strips installed @ fogs:

$30 - ebay :http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...K%3AMEWNX%3AIT

They say they're white, but imo, they're "Cool Blue"...very much like 6000k HID's. I have white LED sidemarkers and they're MUCH whiter than these strips. They're also bluer than my Halos...which is why I temporarily disabled them.



















I also placed them in other configurations for others as well:









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i saw don's post on gpona about these and loved how they looked at night...not a big fan during the day when they r on...do they have a kill switch on them or are they always on when the car is on? how hard was the install?
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Those are pretty darn interesting... I wish they were more white though.
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Last one looks like an Audi, I like.

Looks good at the bottom too.
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the good thing is i think that would match my 8000k HID's
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Originally Posted by DP 08 GXP
i saw don's post on gpona about these and loved how they looked at night...not a big fan during the day when they r on...do they have a kill switch on them or are they always on when the car is on? how hard was the install?
I have the LEDs running full time...no switch. I had my halos on a switch and never got around to finishing it off (running the wiring permanently, installing the switch in the console). I got tired of having wires hanging out in the cabin, so I just tapped these into my ignition fuse.

They grab your attention during the day, and obviously even moreso at night. I was waiting for my wife to get out of class last night and had a group of guys gawking. I drove with just the fogs, running lights and LEDs on and they look pretty badass. They really stand out...but in a clean way, imo.

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Those are pretty darn interesting... I wish they were more white though.
Me too...but only to matched my other lighting a little better. I have white LED sidemarkers and very white projector headlights.

I prefer the LED color as a stand-alone, and it matches my fogs well. Someone out there may offer different colors/levels of white...?

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the good thing is i think that would match my 8000k HID's
IMO, these are comparable to 6000k HIDs. I've had everything from 8000k down to 4300k, and my money is on a perfect match for 6000k in non-projector housings.

What's weird is that my 4300k HIDs, which are in my fogs, for some reason produce light output that looks like 6000k...and it matches the LEDs perfectly at night. My projector headlights, however, are 5000k and look pure white in comparison.

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Last one looks like an Audi, I like.

Looks good at the bottom too.
Yeah, I prefer them down there.
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i think these may make a nice christmas present...more then likely i would have a stereo shop wire them up because i want it to look clean and have a kill switch for them so i would have that option....what do you guys think about runnin these under the headlights of the GXP?
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Looks like a UFO...or an Audi!

Looks cool, though!
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Originally Posted by DP 08 GXP
i think these may make a nice christmas present...more then likely i would have a stereo shop wire them up because i want it to look clean and have a kill switch for them so i would have that option....what do you guys think about runnin these under the headlights of the GXP?
I think they'd look good there. What's nice is that they're very thin (only 1/8" thick), 1/4" wide, and are side-firing LED's...meaning that you can mount them to any flat surface (i.e. under the headlight) and it won't hinder the light output.

IMO, if you go under the headlight...mount them to the bumper and not the headlight itself. That way, if you need to remove the headlight to replace a bulb or something, you don't have to disconnect the LED's.
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that's neat, I wouldn't mind a set like that and running it around my headlight cover and having them turn on with the parking lights.
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Looks really nice Buff. Lucky imp's get the foglight panels
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mike, I'll trade you my bumper and foglight covers with LEDs for your bumper cover. When you wanna come pick it up? ;-)
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:-)

Maybe I have LED's too....?????
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can you post some pics about what your halos look like?
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Buff, Love the first pic.
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do the center of those halos light up?
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Originally Posted by Sittingmongoose
can you post some pics about what your halos look like?
I linked some thumbnails below.

Originally Posted by Mels SS
Buff, Love the first pic.
Thanks mel. I like it too. If only I had a better camera to take nighttime pics with. The car looks sick when driving at night with the no headlights, just the LEDs and Fogs.

Originally Posted by Sittingmongoose
do the center of those halos light up?
Inside the outer halo is the projector low beam, and inside the inner halo is the high.

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where did you get the halos and are there some for gxps?
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Originally Posted by Sittingmongoose
where did you get the halos and are there some for gxps?
at the moment there arent any aftermarket projectors or halos for the 04+ GP's....i know one guy on clubgp made a set of projectors himself but they dont have halos.



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