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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 02:27 PM
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So I have an LED 194 bulb in as my main DomeLight....After getting inside and closing the door the light dims out then its still on!..u can clearly see the LED is still active ON and Nevers turns off completely!....

Anyone else have this problem??

Anyway to fix it?

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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 02:29 PM
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Ive heard of a few people having that problem. I never did though so I cant tell you first hand what to do but I heard reversing the light might help.
Old Apr 8, 2008 | 03:23 PM
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Happens to me, only in the rear, but its so dim i usually forget about it.
Old Apr 9, 2008 | 01:10 AM
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ive heard of that happening to people, and i think it is caused by there being leftover power still in the circut or something like that. I dont know of any fix's, but it never happened to me, so i never really looked.
Old Apr 10, 2008 | 08:01 AM
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can someone tell me the exact size on the rear dome, i just bought an LED fastoon bulb, but was too big.
Old Apr 10, 2008 | 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Bdawg933
can someone tell me the exact size on the rear dome, i just bought an LED fastoon bulb, but was too big.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/icdedppl/faq.html#c1

And greg.. I've heard of this happening too.. I remember someone posting about it.. Don't know where that thread is though..
Old Apr 10, 2008 | 09:54 AM
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thank you
Old Apr 11, 2008 | 03:00 AM
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I have the same issue with both the LED lights that I had in mine (the "superbrightleds" 194-sized 6-LED drop-ins, and the Oznium square LED arrays). I'm curious if it's because the leakage current is low enough to not light up incandescent bulbs, but is enough to faintly light up the LEDs.
Old Apr 11, 2008 | 03:02 AM
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yeah, i did led lights, and the middle front ligth stays very very very slightly illuminated.
Old Apr 11, 2008 | 06:14 AM
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^ Yea exactly...then after a while it burned my LED bulb out

Thats weird stuff........
Old Apr 11, 2008 | 06:18 AM
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i have LEDs in mine and mine go off completely... thats odd
Old Apr 12, 2008 | 04:31 AM
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anyone know what bulb number the dome light is at the back??
Old Apr 12, 2008 | 04:32 AM
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Dome light
DE3175

Trunk/Cargo area
DE3022
Old Apr 15, 2008 | 07:47 PM
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I've notice that on some cars..
If it's on OFF, it's totally off but at Door mode.. it is very dimly lit...

I don't think there is problem... I don't know the exactl term for it, but I call it voltage leake..
It's just how it's design with to make the Door, OFF, ON switch.. it doesn't completely disconncts... it's done through series of relay...
As of now, I haven't really looked in to it, but it will be too much hassle to fix it...then just live with it...
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