Thread: led license plate lights order
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Old Dec 10, 2010 | 05:04 PM
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Default Re: led license plate lights order
Originally Posted by BoilerUpXFire
While I am sure you want the correct bulbs, upon taking the lenses out, you will find a 33mm will work as well, but it will not 'seat' in the lenses properly, up to you to test and see if it meets your standards, but I had a few festoon style bulbs that were a few mm off and I just slightly modified the metal contacts and no issue. Since the metal contacts on the rear plate just snap the bulb in place, you should have no issues with a smaller bulb.

Be careful, the last 3 XFs I have done plate bulbs on have had severely degraded lenses to the point where when I unscrewed the lense, they would practically fall apart. Since they are so discolored, I replaced them anyway, and boy, what a difference $25 new lenses make

Good luck Howard, give me a shout if you run into any issues.
Hey John .... After reading your post, I wrestled my xFire around (which was in storage) to get to the trunk. I remembered the lenses looking cracked when I put the car away, and actually had planned on trying to make new lenses over the winter. In fact I requested if someone would please measure their lenses for me, in a recent post, so I could try to make replacements. It ended up with Onehundred80 making a detailed Measurement (actually to the 1000th) LOL. What a guy! Anyway, I took the lenses off my xFire, and eventho they are cracked, they didn't fall in pieces. I am going to try to repair/re-inforce them with a clear epoxy. I did a search for just lenses on the internet, in case I wanted to buy them and found a site called MercedesComplete.com that has the lenses only, for $9.95 each. Which I will be ordering anyway.
So either way, once I see what the bulb supplier is going to do, I'll try the 33mm like you suggest, and re-install with the restored old lenses, and have the new lenses for future inventory. Thanx for your input .....
 
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