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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 10:05 PM
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I have ordered some LED's to replace the orange and green ones in the rear view mirrow and I also want to replace the courtesy lights in the foot wells and the hatch area and cant decide on which color to go with....RED or WHITE. Here is a pic of my interior to help you help me

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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 10:11 PM
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Here is a link to a thread I posted a while back. It has a list of what I installed and has some pictures of white LEDs.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1529436

Here is another long thread on interior LEDs. It has some pictures of RED LEDs.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1588861

Hope this helps.

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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 10:49 PM
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Well I got the white 5mm LED's coming for the map lights and the white wedge LED's with the 4 small LED's for the footwells and the cargo area.
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 12:33 AM
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I would love to change the colors in my foot wells and courtesy lights too. I'm thinking Blacklight or Red, either which would look good in your case as well, white might be too plain.
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 01:01 AM
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its simple, just google 194 led lights, or go on that famous auction site, and look up 194 led lights. they are made for 12v's and will plug right in where the stock 194 bulbs were.
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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 01:34 AM
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I'd recommend autolumination.com for the interior replacement bulbs... their neo wedge LED is a direct replacement for all the switchs EXCEPT the HUD/Dimmer switch pack...

I went all red and I thought I posted it in this Thread??? Maybe I screwed up... so here it is again. You can see all of my switches which are Red now.


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Old Apr 16, 2007 | 02:22 AM
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I installed blacklight neons under the dash (didnt think the led's would do the blacklight thing well, although I didnt try them (the led's that is)if some one knows better).
Despite being the ten inch tubes (the largest I could find that fit nice under the dash) they dont throw as much light as I thought they would.
They do make any white clothing you have on glow blue :-), but in my triple black car you dont actually see any "light".
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The UV LEDs are just a very dim purple and wouldn't work well at all.
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i had to butcher the housing to make it fit, it's a good thing that a replacement light housing is only 13 bucks if i ever need one.

it would have been nice if they designed the bulb to actually be a direct replacement.

oh well, at least i don't feel as guilty about leaving the hood up now.
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