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Old May 1, 2008 | 08:39 PM
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Since we have the parking/"city" lights, front turn signals, side mirror signals, and license plate lights that can be changed/modded to different colors and such, my question to everyone is, does anyone have a set-up where the majority of their lighting is the same color?
I have 6k HIDs and have my side mirrors modded to blink white as well, but they flash slightly bluer than my HIDs.
Old May 1, 2008 | 08:49 PM
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get someone to change out the LED chips to white. I mean, te parking lights/lisence plate lights are easy. just get white led bulbs. size 194 i believe.
Old May 1, 2008 | 08:56 PM
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yea, but i want the leds/lights to be the same color when lit and still be bright because i've gone through plenty of different leds/lights and they all have different colors/brightness for the same size bulb and such
Old May 1, 2008 | 10:17 PM
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any other input?
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i'm not quite sure what your question is. your wanting your parking lights, license plate lights, and mirror turn signals to all be the same color and brightness? why not just buy a bunch of the same bulb? i'm not sure what bulb the mirror turn signals are, 194? Just buy all the same bulbs at the same time.

http://autolumination.com/194.htm
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i've done that, and they never seem to match in color or brightness, so i'm inquiring if anyone has any particular set-up of bulbs/leds that all have the same color
Old May 2, 2008 | 07:20 PM
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anyone? i remember seeing a post about a specific light bulb turn signal that matched a headlight bulb exactly when lit as well, something to that effect
Old May 2, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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sounds to me like you're just picky, nothing will ever match exactly..
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ya i would say i am :/ i dont want an exact match, but as close as possible would be nice
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i don't get it. you don't want to them to match perfectly? i thought thats what you wanted? we've tried to help, but apparantly we havn't given the answer you were expecting. white LEDs are almost exactly 6000k.

like i've said before buying all the same brand, at the same time, is going to get you the closest results.
3bspecialties.com sells both led lights and hid kits.
Old May 3, 2008 | 01:32 AM
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IMO I think using 2 colors is the best.
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