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lol hopefully
if they go out, maybe we can just buy some high quality LEDs with the same spec and voltage rating so they have the right amount of resistance to not hyper flash
So I’m actually curious as to whether a different brand would cause hyper flash. I may get some Diode Dynamic LEDs and try it out.
I have a 2016 IS 350 F Sport and I used the same bulbs as in E46CT's post. Ordered from Amazon last week. I installed all 4 and had hyperflash. I had also ordered 2 pair of resistors in case I needed them. After seeing how tight the front area is to try to splice the wires, I decided against it and returned the bulbs and resistors. Bulbs were $40 total and resistors were $10, came out to right about $50.
For an additional $10 per side ($70 total), I went with these from iJDMToy
I have a 2016 IS 350 F Sport and I used the same bulbs as in E46CT's post. Ordered from Amazon last week. I installed all 4 and had hyperflash. I had also ordered 2 pair of resistors in case I needed them. After seeing how tight the front area is to try to splice the wires, I decided against it and returned the bulbs and resistors. Bulbs were $40 total and resistors were $10, came out to right about $50.
For an additional $10 per side ($70 total), I went with these from iJDMToy
They installed pretty easily and work just fine. They come pre-wired with resistors so you still need to find a spot nearby to place the resistor.
I’m not trying to bash your purchase by any means, but the stuff I’ve bought from ijdmtoy has been cheaply put together. Hopefully your bulbs last long because the bulbs I’ve bought from them have gone out in like 2 weeks.
I understand. I've had good luck with Cree LEDs in the past, so thought I'd give it a try. If they crap out in a month, I'll post an update. That front area is so tight, I really wanted to avoid splicing wires. It would have required a half hour of removing parts just to access each side.
I understand. I've had good luck with Cree LEDs in the past, so thought I'd give it a try. If they crap out in a month, I'll post an update. That front area is so tight, I really wanted to avoid splicing wires. It would have required a half hour of removing parts just to access each side.
I don’t blame you, the OP here has been trying to find out which wire to splice since there are two green wires with no colored stripes on them.
I understand. I've had good luck with Cree LEDs in the past, so thought I'd give it a try. If they crap out in a month, I'll post an update. That front area is so tight, I really wanted to avoid splicing wires. It would have required a half hour of removing parts just to access each side.
can you tell me where you mounted the resistor? Is there more room in the back than the front? Are they still going strong? Could you send me pics of the resistor location? I am very interested to do the same thing as you.
I removed the front shield over the radiator, there are 9 clips (circled in red on image). I then zip-tied the heat sink portion through the existing holes in the support as shown in the images. It's hard to see, the heat sinks are yellow/gold and they are under the support.
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My setup in that thread works 99% of the time. I do get random hyper-flash the other 1%. I'm sure that I need more "power hungry" bulbs but I'm too cheap to buy new set so I just add a tiny (indicator type) filament bulb to increase the power draw to fix the hyper-flash problem. Got the bulbs from my old pile of switches for the Supra.
Not exactly but the type of filament bulb I use look like this https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079SH5J68
Last edited by MatrixPC; Jan 31, 2019 at 10:32 AM.
