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Old Apr 11, 2019 | 08:58 PM
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Hello all...looking for helpful ideas! Just did some lighting upgrades to LED on a 99 roadster. Front DRL/Signals, all interior convenience lights, and installed a Hyper Flash harness. Now the radio will not turn off as it should after you pull the key and open the door.Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!
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Old Jul 29, 2019 | 02:15 PM
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Do you mean your interior lights & radio never shut off or they shut off on time delay?

While I had my air conditioning control & radio upgraded to full LEDs (repaired) I did LEDs in the interior of my 02 C5 vert. Including the instrument cluster, HUD, & DIC. The interior has new lighting cycles.
When i drop someone off & the passenger door opens &the courtesy bell rings a short burst that’s new.
when I shut off the car. All the dash lights stay on including radio lights ( radio sound shuts off &radio lights stay on) dual zone air controls, HUD, DIC, & window switches.

This is all new since upgrade &when I get out & shut the door now;
1st the radio & air cond control lights shut off. 2nd the HUD, DIC, gauges, traction & ride control lights shut off. 3rd and last the window switches shut off.
This sequence seems all new to me. I bought it at 4 k in 06 and don’t remember 3 different interior light shut off time delays. I remember when I shut it off
opened the door the radio, and all lights except the floor courtesy, gauges & window switches lights stayed on for a time delay & shut off.
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Old Jul 29, 2019 | 03:46 PM
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i run stock low beams & 5000 lumens each fog lights from vettlights.com. The fogs are so bright I don’t need headlights but use em to increase the light making more light than needed. Never had one problem with vetlights.com fog lights. I’ll try calling them.
I had no luck with led headlights. I tried LED & HID with miracle cables. The LEDs would shut off when they felt like it, shutting the car off and re-starting it I had LED headlights..
Then I found HIDconcepts.com very close by in SKOKIE, Illinois. One of the owners? Awesome. Taught me bout HIDs I bought a set with plug & play miracle cables and the converter box. Hooked em up an had a 20% brighter set of low beams.
On a night I needed the car, it’s my everyday car! The HIDs just stopped, light? Nothing. No more low beams.
I removed them when I got back & returned them to HIDconcepts.com & the refunded 80%.
Now I have a LED in the HUD unit I replaced Friday Ya, 4 days ago.
Superbrightleds.com says just modify your application. 3 led twist base’s didn’t fit so I probably drilled the holes in the back of the HUD switch box out of center or to big. So I ordered a used instrument cluster from eBay for a HUD switch I can rebuild when I find out who sells plag&play
Plug & play.
I tried rewiring all the incandescent bulbs from Crazy Uncle Burton at at batee.com when 8 got to the HUD the blue covers didn’t fit the bulbs. Not even in the back of the HUD switch module. I removed the blue covers from the DIC bulbs, they had to be ruined to remove em & tested the bulb color was a sick orange. Then I called an engineer at superbrightleds.com (cho cho Charlie) LOL sent me thirty bulbs that 4 openings fit without drilling out the back of the cluster. So I left the incandescent in the gauges & rewired four for the DIC with some of the led bulbs I had layin around. So I have 3 different bulb colors in the instrument cluster & eventually have to rip it apart & change em all again. Practice makes whatttt?
Mule.
Please!
Can anyone tell me who’s interior LEDs fit OEM C5 HUD, DIC, & instrument clusters on the fist try without re-drilliing holes, re wiring every OEM twist lock diggin thru LEDs to find four that fit the OEM bases?, ??
i see some are new twist bases with bayonet LED bulbs (and no R&rewire&R) any suggestions please. HELP
A Thousand Thank Yous to the Corvettforun members.
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