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anyone ever put LED's in the spoiler light?

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Old Nov 9, 2006 | 01:10 PM
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Has anyone ever done this. If so how? I was thinking about trying to find a small LED light bar and mount it behind the lens.
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Old Nov 9, 2006 | 01:14 PM
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The easy way is to replace the existing #921 bulbs with LED versions of the same bulb.
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Old Nov 9, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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I keep telling myself, one of these days I'm going to take a perf board and put LED's back there... when I do, I'll let you know!
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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 09:18 AM
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Don't bother putting leds in there. I did, and you will see two bright circles compared to the whole lense lit up.
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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by _JB_
Don't bother putting leds in there. I did, and you will see two bright circles compared to the whole lense lit up.

it depends on the bulb. If you get a weldx5 type of LED it will spread the light out more evenly:

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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 03:45 PM
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Nope. I got a few of those and it did the same thing, except it was dimmer than the wedx6.

I have the wledx5 in my sidemarkers, glovebox, and I believe my license plate light. They work pretty good.
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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 05:34 PM
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Nope. I got a few of those and it did the same thing, except it was dimmer than the wedx6.

I have the wledx5 in my sidemarkers, glovebox, and I believe my license plate light. They work pretty good.
any pictures of the license plate one? I was debating on that or make an LED bar.
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I have the wledx5 in there. Sorry for it being so blury, it's really really cold here. I have a piece of paper to cover my license plate, but you can still get the idea. I love it, I've seen pics of the led bars and I think they put out way to much light. This is just right, wish I would have done it sooner.
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Old Nov 13, 2006 | 08:21 AM
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Look at this http://www.ws7.se/led%20HighMounted%20Stoplamp.htm
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Old Nov 13, 2006 | 09:25 AM
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Wow thats awesome! Where did you find all of your stuff to do all that led work? I LOVE the front bird!
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