Interior LEDS

[puntodan]

I have used the search function but haven't found a definative giude on which LED bulbs to buy and what goes where etc.

Does anyone know what is needed as I want to do the inside as the standard lights are getting dull.

Dan

[Anadinolin]

dash lights or the overhead lights?

the glove box is a festoon, and the overhead lights are W5W if i recall correctly

[puntodan]

Overhead lights, my dash lights are all ok at the moment.

Dan

[Anadinolin]

Originally Posted by puntodan

Overhead lights, my dash lights are all ok at the moment.

Dan

i would try these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1x-White-I...item51a1a360e0

i got similar in my 460 and they are bright as anything - double check that your light takes this type first, festoon are the long cylindrical ones

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1x-White-I...item51a3b4f031

[puntodan]

Will order some up now, thank you!

[Anadinolin]

cool, remember that they have to be in the right orientation, if they dont work, rotate 180 degrees and try them again

[markrobinson]

what about the dash lights? I'm currently running on one behind the blower speed selector.
Mark

[rexer12]

Originally Posted by puntodan

Will order some up now, thank you!

i would look around ebay first if i was you i got 2 of these for the same price

[phil_r]

For dash lights I used these http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/ultimate-...i-can-233.html. For my early phase 2 I needed 7 to complete (only bought 6, so the speedo is still a standard bulb!) but the look is a light blue and red rather than the green and red.

Phil

[DXMachina]

Originally Posted by phil_r

For dash lights I used these http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/ultimate-...i-can-233.html. For my early phase 2 I needed 7 to complete (only bought 6, so the speedo is still a standard bulb!) but the look is a light blue and red rather than the green and red.

Phil

There is a specific reason not to pick these ones (with no doubt as to the good intentions with which they were suggested)

These are anti-can LEDs - (which I believe means*) designed to work with a Canbus light monitoring system, they have a resistance in parallel to the LED module to bring the overall current flow UP to that used by a filament bulb: As such they have a potential hotspot (that resistor must dissipate as much energy as a filament lamp does but without a protective glass case full of extremely non-reactive gases), and also they offer no current savings

Given the x40s proneness to weird electrical glitches, saving 2 or more watts per bulb could be very useful in extremely limited circumstances (I've been busily doing every bulb I can get at, starting with sides, markers, tails and domes, glovebox, boot,footwell..)

* going to look a colossal muppet if I'm wrong about this - this message, also, was posted in good faith