Inspired by the previous work of some SS members I decided to tackle on this project.
http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?146018-Back-with-another-tail-light-retro!!!
http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?133148-Diod-lines-on-S60-taillights
I bought a used taillight for ebay and disected it using a hot knife. ALthough it was quicker than actually cutting the taillight it had some undesirable effects. Have to work on a way to conceal it:
After some brainstorming I realized that placing LED to close to the red reflectrors will have the effect that some people like
but I wanted to conceal the actual LED's and have a rather stream of light tahn seeing each individual led bulb.
So I decided to place LED strip as far back as possible to achieve that effect.
After some brainstorming I decided to use the LED strip:
http://autolumination.com
I got 2 sets of 30 cm strips that had 30 led bulbs.
Instead of cutting the entire taillight I cut the section just long enough to fit LED strips.
(LED strip is covered by the yellow glue/gasket stuff). I thought it would be better just in case LED fail and I would have to deal with the weatherstrip rather than taking the whole taillight again. I will probably end up taking the left taillight out since for some reason it is not as bright as the right side. Perhaps the strip would have to be repositioned.
In regards to the connections. I decided to use replace the rear side marker bulb since its removal will not cause bulb warning message. Just to be safe I used LED protectors for each side.
Once everything was dry:
No bulb warning messages.
Not sure if i prefer this look now:
And even if I do I would have to figure out the way to eliminate the bulbs without causing the dreaded message.
BTW does anyone need left taillight taken apart completely by hotknife? It served its purpose I don't need it anymore.
http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?146018-Back-with-another-tail-light-retro!!!
http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthread.php?133148-Diod-lines-on-S60-taillights
I bought a used taillight for ebay and disected it using a hot knife. ALthough it was quicker than actually cutting the taillight it had some undesirable effects. Have to work on a way to conceal it:
After some brainstorming I realized that placing LED to close to the red reflectrors will have the effect that some people like
but I wanted to conceal the actual LED's and have a rather stream of light tahn seeing each individual led bulb.
So I decided to place LED strip as far back as possible to achieve that effect.
After some brainstorming I decided to use the LED strip:
http://autolumination.com
I got 2 sets of 30 cm strips that had 30 led bulbs.
Instead of cutting the entire taillight I cut the section just long enough to fit LED strips.
(LED strip is covered by the yellow glue/gasket stuff). I thought it would be better just in case LED fail and I would have to deal with the weatherstrip rather than taking the whole taillight again. I will probably end up taking the left taillight out since for some reason it is not as bright as the right side. Perhaps the strip would have to be repositioned.
In regards to the connections. I decided to use replace the rear side marker bulb since its removal will not cause bulb warning message. Just to be safe I used LED protectors for each side.
Once everything was dry:
No bulb warning messages.
Not sure if i prefer this look now:
And even if I do I would have to figure out the way to eliminate the bulbs without causing the dreaded message.
BTW does anyone need left taillight taken apart completely by hotknife? It served its purpose I don't need it anymore.