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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 10:11 PM
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I am wanting to replace the lights in the dome light, the odometer, headlight light switch, glovebox, and window button lights also.
How do I find out what lights will fit?
I also need to know if I can put Led's in my stock taillights?
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 10:54 PM
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Go to superbrightleds.com they'll have you covered. And you can replace your tailights with LED's but they aren't much of an upgrade because they aren't shaped for good light output with the housing and they won't blink right because they draw less power. They'll blink like a rat on meth because the flasher unit in the dash is not meant for LED's. I would recommend some 08+ SuperDuty tails.
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 11:07 PM
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^ X2. Quality items from them. Read the following on how to do the dash and temp controls. The light switch does NOT have any film to worry about, but you DO need to modify a T-5 LED assembly to fit into the bulb carrier.
http://www.f150online.com/forums/art...r-97-03-a.html
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 11:11 PM
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Go to superbrightleds.com they'll have you covered. And you can replace your tailights with LED's but they aren't much of an upgrade because they aren't shaped for good light output with the housing and they won't blink right because they draw less power. They'll blink like a rat on meth because the flasher unit in the dash is not meant for LED's. I would recommend some 08+ SuperDuty tails.
Is there anything you don't have an answer for?
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 11:19 PM
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Is there anything you don't have an answer for?
Hahaha yeah, many, but most of them ain't about trucks.
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 11:21 PM
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Hey man if you really want some lights that will stand out goto Vleds.com They have all the information you need I bought a set of lights i paid 90.00 something for them but they are 92leds a piece well worth the money.
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 11:30 PM
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Hey man if you really want some lights that will stand out goto Vleds.com They have all the information you need I bought a set of lights i paid 90.00 something for them but they are 92leds a piece well worth the money.
I did mine (194s, 37's and festoons) over a year ago - a 20 pack off Ebay (the 194s) - about $2 apeice, for the cluster, temp panel, doors, bed and license plate lights, with no burnouts so far. The festoon, with 16 LEDs I had to hard wire. VLEDs and Superbrightleds are of higher quality, better construction at the base, and actually fit better. A little dab of silicone on the bulb carriers was needed for the cheaper ones, but they DO work fine.
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Old Aug 15, 2012 | 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Warspite
I did mine (194s, 37's and festoons) over a year ago - a 20 pack off Ebay (the 194s) - about $2 apeice, for the cluster, temp panel, doors, bed and license plate lights, with no burnouts so far. The festoon, with 16 LEDs I had to hard wire. VLEDs and Superbrightleds are of higher quality, better construction at the base, and actually fit better. A little dab of silicone on the bulb carriers was needed for the cheaper ones, but they DO work fine.
I think I will go with superbrighleds. Pretty cheap and noone has complaints about em.
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Old Aug 15, 2012 | 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Call-_Me-Jordan
I think I will go with superbrighleds. Pretty cheap and noone has complaints about em.
+!. I've ordered a number of household LED sets (2.5 W LED lights up a room like a TV is on) from Superbrightleds. Great stuff besides auto applications. Besides, how often do you want to take the dash apart (to replace cheap ones)?
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Old Aug 15, 2012 | 12:24 AM
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http://www.f150online.com/forums/art...r-97-03-a.html <--- I only want to have to do this once!
Ok so my aftermarket head unit is mostly red, I want a red gauge cluster, and white every thing else. Only problem is I have a green truck and I wanted some under glow under the dash and in the auto-dome light(these will only be on when the door is open). Do you think it will look like Christmas? or it will be ight?
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