Interior LED's as replacement lights

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stopover

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Seen a very interesting post on another site about replacing ALL the interior bulbs for LED's.
Main benefit is better light output which would be good as the standard lamps are very poor and not up to modern standards. Also, half the battery consumption! which would be very helpful as anybody knows that if you load a car in the winter with luggage, kids, dogs, wife etc, by the time you are done the car won't start! Has anyone done this and if so what bulbs would you recommend?
 
Yes
Replaced them all with LED panels off fleabay. Just measured the space available inside each fitting and bought to fit. Did away with the stupid 'bulb' connectors and soldered the wiring straight in.
Added a couple in the boot space and one in the passenger footwell.
 
Not only did the puddle lamps but then added;
a metre of white LEDs under each side step
500mm of red LEDs on the trailing edge of each front door.
The only place where I couldn't improve was in the front map/reading lights in the light cluster. There isn't space for an LED panel and a single LED bulb seemed feeble.
The replacement festoon bulbs with the wee LED panel in place of the element are a simpler alternative but you don't get anything like the light output and if they rotate with the car's vibrations then you lose all of the effect.
 
I swapped my interior normal light bulbs for the led type about 3 years ago.Discovery 2, I fitted blue leds in mine,The blue lights looks strange through the darkened windows from outside.Crap to read anything tho.
 
My best light mod was a 10€ worth waterproof warm white led strip on the upper tailgate. It gives a superb light to whole boot area and then some. As it is self adhesive i've just glued it to the inside of the upper tailgate and connected on existing light connectors.
 
I recently put a 36 LED panel in my vehicle for the front dome and quickly learnt that although it does generate HUGE amounts of light, it was a bit small so couldn't be sat centralised to use the double sided sticky tape. Probably could do with getting the next size up (48?) as I think it'd bridge the gap better.

Definitely a worthwhile improvement as I can see when I open the door now. However the LEDs don't dim like normal bulbs, they just flicker for a bit then go off.
 
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