You can also see the concern/problem by sitting in the car, you can see the glow, just peer into the map lights
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1. after getting in without starting it, just wait for the lights to dim.
2. after shutting down the car, wait for the lights to dim.

Regardless, make sure those bulbs go out.

I'll probably pickup a (pair?) of incandescent 194s like PipeDreams mentioned. At least one of those in the circuit (foot, map) should be enough as per ShopDog and others.

 

Just sent you a P/M

 

Map lights glowing ? Sounds like a UFO thread in the making ................ gotta go find my tin foil hat .........................

 

Man, I hope this is not the case, I LOVE these LEDs, I will have to check them tonight to see if they stay on. haven't noticed it at all yet, and mine do fade out like stock. I only did the map, footwell, and lisence plate lights.

 

Hi Corrado.....How are you? Good job I waited before doing the whole car........If Pipedreams says there is a problem, it's good enough for me...have only done the License plate..............ok Corvettemods are you following this thread....we need to hear your comments? Have 12 bulbs if anybody wants some cheap..pm me or perhaps the vendor would like them back? Not taking the chance here..sometimes if it ain't broke..well you know the rest.....

 

Let me first say I am sorry for not taking pics but I was underneath the glove box and working in limited space. Was not that big of a deal but I am not a large guy and in hindsight I could have properly taken pics but I dint want to bring any extra tools with me in the small area.

Ok, so I am the OP here and here is what I did to solve the problem.

Like others have mentioned you can take one of the stock bulbs and wire it into the one of the footwells and it solves the problem. Indeed, it does.

I took one of the stock bulbs that came out of the hatch lights (easier to work with since the leads are on opposite sides) and wire it into the passenger side footwell. There is a plastic cover at the bottom underneath the glove box that pulls down very easily when removing only two plastic tabs and then you can access the lights. Above the plastic cover there is a pretty big void which I attached a closed hook to the top of and ran enought wire to hook the stock bulb to so it DOES NOT TOUCH ANYTHING. Put the plastic cover back on and all is well. The dim down feature still works and no more dimly lit LEDs.

USE Caution when doing this as the stock hatch bulbs gets VERY HOT and will cause a fire if left resting against something. Some have put the bulb inside something heat safe then just tucking it underneath there but I could not find anything that worked. I tried a few things and they just melted.

FWIW I had these bulbs in there for a few weeks now and my car is not a DD going sometimes 6 or 7 days without being driven and I did not get a dead battery. With that said I did not want to take a chance so I wanted it to work properly.

Yes, this is a rigged up way of doing it but I like the look of the LEDs and I am confident there will not be any issues the way I hooked the stock bulb up in there.

 

Oh, I have the map lights, footwells, hatch lights and license plate lights changed over to the LEDs from CorvetteMods

 

Good write up...although I agree that you will not experience any battery issues with our bulbs, those that are overly concerned can add the make shift resistor. I have personally noticed on my cars that the dimming effect last only a short time. The LED's take more time to use up the reserve power, therefore the result above. We have been selling these exact auto LED's working with the same manufacturer for 4 years. NO ONE EVER HAD A DEAD BATTERY GUYS!!!

BTW: The stereo memory and car alarm use more power in multiples than a half dozen LED's ever will

 

congrats on solving the problem, this is the most effective and simplest solution, IMO i would check your bukb to make sure it didnt fall off the hook, another thing you might want to consider is wiring a switch with the extra light incase anything did happen you could quickly cut power to it, i know you said its secure but id cover the light in somehting heat safe, but glad you fixed the problem.

(TO ALL) IF YOUR WORRIED ABOUT YOUR LIGHTS REMAINING ON DO WHAT THIS GUY DID OR JUST IGNORE THE PROBLEM leds draw like 1mah when dim, our batteries can supply 55amps for 1 hour before running dead thats 55000 mah, or 1 mah for like 30k hours def not an issue

 

Its wired through a closed hook so it could not come off. I was looking for something heat safe as that would have been easier but I couldnt find anything that did not get hot or melt.

 

OK, if indeed that draw is true, then it won't drain the battery quickly. My concern is that the vendor says the lights go out ... and therefore there is no drain issue. Well, I have checked on 2 (TWO) different mornings and the lights are on. Sat for more than 12 hours. If I look through the windshield, with morning sun filtering through the shaded garage windows, I can see the lights glowing. Please note it was not a totally dark garage and I could easily see them. None of us should have to rig an extra bulb to get them to go out when the vendor said they would go out.

Someone here mentioned blue incandescent bulbs that were a close color, please PM me with where they came from. That should work well in the footwell area and allow the LED's, which do look great, to shut off properly in the map lights.

 

Well I checked mine and indeed they do not go out fully. Dangnabbit!!

I know LED's draw almost no power, but I am concerned that it may perhaps cause any other issue? Ok, so I am a little paranoid about my car, but aren't we all? I really do not want to wire in another bulb, I have no background in electronics and not gonna mess with that in my baby.
I thought there were built in resistors in these.

That being said, a friend of mine has had LEDs in his C6 for over 2 years and never had any battery issues at all.

Don't know what I'm gonna do yet, I love the way these look, but do not ever wanna get stranded because of a dead battery. I will keep an eye on my volt meter, so far no problems yet.

 

Yesterday, during the day, I replaced all my bulbs with LED's that I purchased from the recommended vendor directly by the instructions on the list. I also added the glovebox while I was at it. During the day while I was testing the lights, everything looked perfect...they dimmed, then went fully off. Tested this about a dozen times and it worked perfectly!

Last night I went out to my car, opened the door, the white lights came on ... beautiful. I shut my door and NONE of the footwell or map lights turned off. They didn't even dim! I drove home all the way and they stayed on the entire 15 minute ride home. I parked the car in the garage and the lights stayed on after shutting the doors and locking the car. The lights finally went out after about 15-30 minutes.

Any ideas? I have a 2008 C6Z and have replaced all my headlights with HIDs and did the fog light wiring mod to turn on my fogs with the highbeams. However, I did not ever have my highbeams on last night.

 

most likely you pressed the dimmer switch button, if presed it will turn your interior lights on, turning off after 20 minutes is the power cutoff to save the battery.

just open your door and press the dimmer switch, close door and lock with fob all lights should be off within 5 seconds

 

Here's some more info ... i replaced one of the footwells with an incandescent ... when I get out of the car ... even the footwells and the incandescent stay on ...

Have I messed up something else?

 

Forgive my stupidy ... where is the the dimmer switch button? --- never mind ... got it! Thanks for the help!

 

I just replied to your PM before checking this. Glad to hear it was the dimmer switch and that the LEDs aren't giving you any problems.
-David

 

they probally are but its too hard to tell unless ts pitch black

 

I can see a faint glow coming from them in a near pitch black garage. Guess I'll replace one of the footwells with one of those white incandescents ... unless someone has a suggestion. I got everything from the recommended vendor in other threads.

 

well you can do what i did and put an original bulb in addition to the leds and voila no issues as well as LEDs