Old Jun 15, 2005 | 03:23 PM
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Default Re: what kind of bulb in illuminated door sills?

Red would be nice, too. My Firebird had red lighting on a black/black interior and it was downright evil looking. Very cool, especially since it matched the red exterior. Looked like Darth Vader should be driving it.

My last car was a Sebring Coupe LXi, black with black/tan interior. The lighting was all amber. Very classy looking.

I guess I got spoiled.

Now the Crossfire. Black with black/grey interior and...green lighting? Mmm, nope...not quite right. But I'm just plain picky about this kind of thing. It doesn't bother me...it just could be better. Makes me want to mod, because I'm enough in love with this car to want to tinker with it. Blue or red or white or something would strike me as better. I think it's just that green was so overdone on so many bad cars for a long time that it has a "history" with me that I don't like.

That said, if I could get the door sills to be green, I'd settle for it all just matching. I don't know why they produced that door sill part knowing full well no other light in the car was blue. Except that blue EL tape seems to be the cheapest/most common/oldest variety. The part is already expensive...what's a few bucks more have it to match? I may order one and see how hard it would be to take it apart and swap em out.

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And hey, ctstemicon...is everything that needs replacing an LED already? That is, are you just swapping one LED for another everywhere, or did you come across difficult or different portions? I can handle a soldering iron well enough to swap out LEDs, I guess. But if there's all kinds of step-downs in voltage or oddball parts to figure out...it might be beyond me. I'm CS not EE.
 
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