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Old 04-23-2012, 04:32 PM
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I was wondering if its possible to install LED Headlights on a 2003 S-Type like you see on many of the 2012 vehicles? If so, where can you buy them and how do you install them?

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

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Old 04-23-2012, 05:20 PM
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LED's are not bright enough for use as primary headlights as of yet, maybe you are thinking of the daytime LED running lights on some vehicles such as Audi, Mercedes, etc. If so, I'm sure you could fit some to your vehicle, superbrightleds.com has a nice selection. If you are talking about the projector lights on most new cars, those use HID bulbs and you can retrofit your headlights to accomodate them, basically plug and play. Search this forum for more info.If you end up putting HID's in your regular reflectors, make sure that you re-align them. When I put mine in they were off quite a bit due to the fact that the stock reflector was designed for a different style of bulb. But I must say that I can see much better at night with the HID's, they make everything "pop".
 
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Old 04-23-2012, 11:25 PM
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you can put the LED below in the top right part of your head light where that ugly regular light bulb is. 10$ shipped and it looks awesome.

T13-x6: Wedge Base LED bulb - cool white

EDIT: this one too - WLED-x6: 6 LED T10 Wedge Base Bulb


Miniature Wedge Base Bulbs - Super Bright LEDs
 

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Although I have had no real luck successfully replacing the instrument cluster bulbs with LEDs - I do have the interior lighting figured out. I uses 39mm festoon bulbs. You can get them ultra cheap off ebay direct from China. The 2 row 6-led units seem to work fine up front - although they are definitely brighter than the original.
 
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