DIY: Upgrading Reverse & Brake halogen bulbs to LEDs

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"Upgraded to LED lights and the quality is incredible! The strength is truthful overmuch amended than the aged halogen and it truly enhances the wide look of the module."

Hey everyone,

So, I was feeling the impulse to upgrade the halogen bulbs successful my Santro Xing and Scorpio-N, and I decided to tackle some vehicles astatine the aforesaid time. I ordered immoderate LED bulbs from LED Beam, and besides got a reverse brake airy power for the Santro Xing from Boodmo.
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RED LED FOR SANTRO

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WHITE LED FOR SCORPIO

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The items I ordered were:
1) 1 1156 LED bulb with built-in vigor dissipation for my Scorpio-N
2) 2 1157 reddish LED bulbs for the Santro Xing
3) Reverse brake airy power for the Santro Xing

The tools required for the occupation were conscionable a screwdriver, a 14mm unfastened spanner wrench, and of course, immoderate of your time. Oh, and a yoga mat oregon thing to beryllium connected portion moving connected the cars.
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I started with the Santro Xing, reasoning it would instrumentality immoderate time, but it turned retired to beryllium rather straightforward. It was conscionable a substance of unscrewing and screwing successful the caller bulbs, and popping retired the airy unit. It hardly took maine 10 minutes connected 1 broadside to get the occupation done. Since my brake airy power wasn't working, I decided to alteration that arsenic well. It was arsenic elemental arsenic unscrewing the aged power and popping successful the caller 1 with the assistance of a 14mm spanner. I ever bask moving connected my Santro due to the fact that it's truthful DIY affable and conscionable works each the time. It's not ever the lawsuit with modern cars, arsenic I'll explicate during the enactment connected the Scorpio-N.
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HALOGEN STEUP

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LED SETUP

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WORKING LEDs

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BRAKE LIGHT SWITCH SEAN

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Now, coming to the Scorpio-N, you didn't request immoderate peculiar tools to alteration the bulbs, but it took maine 30 minutes to bash 1 side. Why? Because it's truthful hard and congested there. There's virtually nary abstraction to enactment your manus in, and conjecture what? You person to deterioration a moving mitt due to the fact that it's similar crisp sheared metallic and plastic, particularly connected the edges. Also, there's not capable magnitude of ligament to instrumentality the socket retired for bulb replacement, truthful you person to enactment some hands inside. I adjacent had to crawl nether the conveyance to get capable leverage. I mean, wherefore does it person to go harder and harder to enactment connected caller vehicles? On the different hand, my 14-year-old Santro is simply a bliss to enactment on.

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After struggling for astir 45 minutes, I managed to alteration the bulbs connected some vehicles. The quality is precise noticeable, particularly successful the lawsuit of the Scorpio-N astatine night. Thanks to the LEDs, it's truthful overmuch easier to spot successful the acheronian with my reverse parking camera. The propulsion is excellent, and it illuminates a ample abstraction down the vehicle. As for the Santro, the strength of airy has improved, and it looks beauteous erstwhile I deed the brake.

SANTRO:-

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SCORPIO:-

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I'm gladsome I took connected this task and I'm precise blessed with the outcome. That's it for this post. See you successful the adjacent one! Till adjacent time, blessed driving!

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