What did you do to your X150 today?
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1) Installed the wiring for my charger (coincidentally using exactly the same bolts that Barnsie used)
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
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1) Installed the wiring for my charger (coincidentally using exactly the same bolts that Barnsie used)
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
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Did you get any error messages? I am guessing not or you would have mentioned them. I have the 2008 model year, so your solutions should work for me too. I am especially interested in how you did the fog lights too
If you could find time to list the LED replacements you used that would be great!
A very important part of any job undertaken
Last edited by barnsie; 10-27-2019 at 06:37 AM.
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1) Installed the wiring for my charger (coincidentally using exactly the same bolts that Barnsie used)
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
2) Installed the last two LED lights (fog lights). Now ALL lamps on the car, inside and out, other than front and rear signal lights and the brake lights are LEDs. And I mean *all* (OK - two are new Xenon).
3) Washed the car
4) Washed the garage floor (I love a garage I can walk into in my socks and come out with clean socks - and yes, this makes my sanity immediately suspect)
5) Took a picture of the clean, happy automobiles on their clean floor.
6) Felt very satisfied with myself.
Can you come to my house and clean out my 9 car garage. Please...
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kj07XK, Barnsie and DGL - you guys are hilarious. Every Jag deserves a good home. I particularly am happy with the floor treatment (but it's off topic, so if you are at all interested, PM me).
And Barnsie - re the LEDs, I am in the process of doing a proper write-up. I was the beneficiary of a lot of advice here - https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...pgrade-195058/. I also took apart the headlamp units - again with great success based on the advice from this community. But unless you have a reason to, as I did, there is no reason to disassemble the headlamp units. My projector lenses had a milky coating and on disassembly I found (and fixed) a lot of failing wire insulation. I posted that thread here: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ailing-224587/
But I learned a few things during the LED replacement which I hope will be useful to others, so I am going to post my experience there, including pointers to all the bulbs I used, and where.
I have to agree with you - the LEDs give a bright, crisp light (inside and out) that makes a huge difference (if you like that sort of thing - as I do). It's been two days since I've done it and two "car" friends of mine immediately decided to do the same LED conversion after seeing the result. Plus, I have a pet peeve regarding burned out bulbs - so I'll mostly not have to worry about that again.
And no - no errors. But I avoided "upgrading" the front and back turns signals as well as the brake lights for this very reason. I was not interested in playing with resistors, the heat they generate, etc.
See below for an image showing the difference between the old fog lamp (on the left) and the LED (on the right). As I say, I'll post my full experience in the LED light thread as soon as the writeup is complete.
All the best -
Old halogen on the left, new LED on the right.
And Barnsie - re the LEDs, I am in the process of doing a proper write-up. I was the beneficiary of a lot of advice here - https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...pgrade-195058/. I also took apart the headlamp units - again with great success based on the advice from this community. But unless you have a reason to, as I did, there is no reason to disassemble the headlamp units. My projector lenses had a milky coating and on disassembly I found (and fixed) a lot of failing wire insulation. I posted that thread here: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ailing-224587/
But I learned a few things during the LED replacement which I hope will be useful to others, so I am going to post my experience there, including pointers to all the bulbs I used, and where.
I have to agree with you - the LEDs give a bright, crisp light (inside and out) that makes a huge difference (if you like that sort of thing - as I do). It's been two days since I've done it and two "car" friends of mine immediately decided to do the same LED conversion after seeing the result. Plus, I have a pet peeve regarding burned out bulbs - so I'll mostly not have to worry about that again.
And no - no errors. But I avoided "upgrading" the front and back turns signals as well as the brake lights for this very reason. I was not interested in playing with resistors, the heat they generate, etc.
See below for an image showing the difference between the old fog lamp (on the left) and the LED (on the right). As I say, I'll post my full experience in the LED light thread as soon as the writeup is complete.
All the best -
Old halogen on the left, new LED on the right.
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The white CLS is mine. The black ML is my wife's. I have no idea what the mistress drives. :-)
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These are the (very uniform) LEDs I chose for the fog lights. If they hold up well, I'll be very happy with the choice:
Pretty uniform all-around illumination, plus illumination out the front (through a small projector lens).
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And Barnsie - re the LEDs, I am in the process of doing a proper write-up. I was the beneficiary of a lot of advice here - https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...pgrade-195058/. I also took apart the headlamp units - again with great success based on the advice from this community. But unless you have a reason to, as I did, there is no reason to disassemble the headlamp units. My projector lenses had a milky coating and on disassembly I found (and fixed) a lot of failing wire insulation. I posted that thread here: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ailing-224587/
But I learned a few things during the LED replacement which I hope will be useful to others, so I am going to post my experience there, including pointers to all the bulbs I used, and where.
I have to agree with you - the LEDs give a bright, crisp light (inside and out) that makes a huge difference (if you like that sort of thing - as I do). It's been two days since I've done it and two "car" friends of mine immediately decided to do the same LED conversion after seeing the result. Plus, I have a pet peeve regarding burned out bulbs - so I'll mostly not have to worry about that again.
And no - no errors. But I avoided "upgrading" the front and back turns signals as well as the brake lights for this very reason. I was not interested in playing with resistors, the heat they generate, etc.
See below for an image showing the difference between the old fog lamp (on the left) and the LED (on the right). As I say, I'll post my full experience in the LED light thread as soon as the writeup is complete.