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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:04 AM
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Ok guys, I have been racking my brain digging through searches and tutorials about replacing my interior bulbs with LEDs. I know there are several threads going right now and I have read through them but am still not finding the answers I am looking for. What I'm really looking for is a list of LEDs it takes to replace ALL the interior lights in our trucks. I'm most interested in numbers that will match with superbrightleds.com since they seem to have everything we need. I am just having trouble sorting through what I have where and what is needed to replace it. this is a relatively cheap and easy mod that I expect more and more of us will be doing so I would think many of us can benifit from a decent write up/list from one of us who has the experience instead of all the B.S. I know I would greatly appreciate it.
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:06 AM
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great question, i just know then ones you need for the dash and that's it wish i could help more but i am also curious for the rest of them
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 07:04 AM
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from what i understand reading threw all of it is you need

WLED-xHP5: Wedge Base Bulb $5.95 ea

T10S-TW: 168/194 (WLED) Twist Lock Wedge Base Socket are the bases $1.19 ea

NEOx-x: NEOx LED Instrument bulb and these for the a/c lights $1.29ea ******but dont know how many lumen to go with 2 or 6


this is from what i read if im wrong will somebody chime in on how many of each are needed to do the instrument cluster and the climate controls
 

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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:07 AM
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those will work for instrament lights but i promise u guys might not like it..i sent mine back... i even used a wide angle led and it still didn't light up everything. those wedge base bulbs will work if u have the short overhead console, that's what i have now and love it. get wide angle though... if u have the long console, which either way the back light should be different, u need these... the feston type bulb.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...on_4410-x9.htm
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:09 AM
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from what i read that's right.
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by moparman_2004
from what i understand reading threw all of it is you need

WLED-xHP5: Wedge Base Bulb $5.95 ea

T10S-TW: 168/194 (WLED) Twist Lock Wedge Base Socket are the bases $1.19 ea

NEOx-x: NEOx LED Instrument bulb and these for the a/c lights $1.29ea ******but dont know how many lumen to go with 2 or 6


this is from what i read if im wrong will somebody chime in on how many of each are needed to do the instrument cluster and the climate controls
Lumens is the brightness u want...3 lumens is a lower dimmer light, 6 will be brighter.....
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:16 AM
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oh and also, if u do the gauges and what not... they will stay dim for some reason...i still have on for my brights, and at night it glows just a little...but when i did the led, i got those sockets he shows up there and put the bulbs in that, and i had bigger wedge base bulbs lol, wrong ones, but worked, and in wide angle so that it would cover everything and it didn't. that's why i just went back to stock... just my 2 cents...and i have everything else led...interior domes, brake light (whole housing) as well as reverse, licence plate, 3rd brake housing, parking lamps(housing)...BackDone.jpg
 

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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:23 AM
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ok then what leds do you recomend for the instrument panel then
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:21 PM
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http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...0_sockets.html
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...FWLED-xHP5.htm

the universal twist lock and pop in the WLED-xHP5 bulb....it's 360 degree wide angle...
that's if your sure you wanna do it. they have a good refund policy if u don't like them...i didn't. it only lit up part of the needle for me, but again, i also had a bigger wedge bulb. that was my bad, i may try it again soon though and that's what i will get when i do....as far as the a/c panel, and the hi beams light, those r different bulbs. just match the part number with what u have. i had to go to the dealor. and there's 3 behind the a/c in my 2001 dakota. i think it would be this one for the a/c...
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...s%2F74_t15.htm
there long and skinny...
 
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:22 PM
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and really any of those twist locks should work...just remember u need 360 degree to get all the needles.... mine weren't. mine were the 120
 
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