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I have fitted LED's in my headlights and tail lights
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Good job that man!!!!

I really like the head lights?

You don't happen to have loads of pics of the work you did?

What type of LEDs did you use?

Really well done mate - how do they look as daytime running lights?

Sorry for all the questions but i do this when i'm excited

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Thunder, which model of 406 is that please? Also, what make of lights are those and from where did you get them?

Cheers

If you do this you do it on your own risk and onething is for sure if lights are old and secondhand they might crack if stressed or drilled becarefull .Okay now to tell you what I did .
All lights was standard 406 sti sedan lights front and rear from model .
I saw this leds in my friend's shop that the call led striplights that they use here for under car lighting same evect as neon tubes's but more robust . I first bought the white leds as for hood lighting but as I open the hood I saw the front lens can split from the main unit and split it. Now the difficult section was to mont them in side after trail and erro with gleu I first superglue them and then epoxy them for strength due too only the edges can be glued and re assembled lights. The rear I drilled a hole in the white top part of the indicator\reverslights and inserted strip lights easy. Remember check your front lights too see if they are not glued with a epoxy , they must have the rubbery type of resealible sealer , the tail ligts you can not split they are gleud with a hard epoxy and spliting will certanly crack them , take care when spliting the front lights not to crack them.

Sorry but cameras's of cell phones dont give any justice to them but is visible with the eye even when main beam is on even from a distance, the striplights must be of the high output type as you get the low output ones too.

I have replaced the globes in the dashboard with white small leds sorry but I cannot place pics now because I am in hospital deu to a allergic reaction from a insect bite of no known origin that I got on a trip in the bushveld in south africa and they can only treat simtems ,sorry for my spelling, I will place pics as soon as I am discharged from hospital the needles are true white but you can use any colour you want but will affect the number dails to thats why I used white ones. reply if you like my mods or not and thank you to those who replied and are curios of how I did it so I now it is not in vain to post it on the net. Watch this space as I have a new idea comming soon in 2 to 4 weeks as I am relocating to Pietersburg in South Africa , were the insect bit me, true irony in a sens , hope if it bites me I can catch it this time so they can study it as description and frankly searching thru there data base brought up nothing.

Well... wow. Thanks for the information Thunder, but sounds like more work/ability then I can afford. I presumed they were something you'd bought as complete units and just plonked 'em in there.

Mind you it's very impressive, and I love the idea of a custom job. So I'll save this thread and see if I can work up the courage to give it a go later in the year ^^

Regarding your bug bite, was it one of these?

Thanks for bug pic but it did not look that ferocious as yours. Well the headlights took a couple of hours on a saterday morning because of you need too strip each light out thats a very big pain in well you now were if you dont have small hands and right tools.

Oh tell me about it. I share a house with the world's smallest engineer and even she couldn't get her tiny child-sized paws on to the fourth glowplug (she did manage to drop a spanner behind the alternator though ^^)

One thing is for sure that I am gona do is fit a 1.2meter white striplight led in the trunk ,sheeeees little light globe kan bee a pain if you need something in a full trunk , you litterly have to unpack half the trunk for light. Ooh how I enevy also too life I a less than strickt country when it comes too car lighting , if we put any colour like red or blue,green ectra. in the front other than the colour that of what it should be for that specific light like red, blue , green in the head lights we get R500 fine per light , thats adout 5pounds by you but here R500 can be a big set back thats a weeks food , per light, so I will stay I the law. I will however still fit that hood light in the hood a red for show and a white for work that can be switched of not too get in trouble with the law can be switched on inside the car maybe some striplights for under the car with a switch , yepp we are not even alowed red or blue under the cars .

I forgotten too mentioned that when you buy striplights duy them longer than you need them as you can cut them too length that you need , some you can only cut to a certain place like the reds I put on had tranponders they call that if you cut after them ,they are 3 lights to every transponder , the one before it dont light up , I used these in the rear because you dont need to solder a resistor onto them if you whant too use the offcuts later and the transponder type is less brighter too perfect for the rear you dont want to blind\ dazel the one behind you you want to awe them in envy like just before I was admitted in hospital that a chap followed me to hospital and frantically searched the hospital for me. The front ones are high out put because you want it to still be visible when main beams are on and if you look as well you can see that the park light I replaced with a led as well to give it a evect of a eye with a eyelid . A very angry eye evect even the rear has same evect . I wanted to do it different at the rear but this turned out great instead of fitting amber in that same spot and red right the botom of the light. I might later get second hand tail lights later and split them somehow and strip out all lights and fit striplights i but thats goingto be though though as used ones are normaly britel oops that I forgotten to mention too. I'll edit the post at top.

Swiss this might not be the right place to ask but where can I edit the model for the car as mine say 1.6 8v and mine is a 2.0 16v sti .

I am allso thinking of fitting aftermarked foglights in the front because the doctor that had the car dinged the front bumper , lucky only bumper as rest of front had no work done to it, and put these new superbright led foglights in , are they any good as I dont want to fork out and find them to be a novelty only.

Thunderstorm wrote: Swiss this might not be the right place to ask but where can I edit the model for the car as mine say 1.6 8v and mine is a 2.0 16v sti .

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It's related to your post count Post more and maybe one day you can be a mighty 3.0 V6

Thank you mjb