SV6 LED Headlights

[ALIII]

Hi Guys,

First of all i have searched and could not find any other 'how to' tutorials on this topic. I have seen some VZ SV6's that have changed their parking lights to LED's.

I would love to hook some up on my SV6, but need some help.

Can anyone shed some light on this topic for me or point me in the right direction?

ie:

voltage on LED's
where i can get some
mounting tips
etc

Here are some examples,

[kdoohan]

2x New 48 LED 48cm strip white light for all style cars - eBay LED Lights, Lights, Indicators, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 16-May-10 16:25:48 AEST)
i got mine from him/her they come withing do days just dont do what i do and order it on friday and relise no mail sunday!
i glued mine under the lights with some superglue, had the wire running in on the cornors from there weld the positive and negitives together. i didnt it this way you dont have to from there i had the negitive connected to the negitive side battery and the positive run up the left hand side into the car from there to the fusebox under the stearing wheel drilled a hole connected the negitive to the positive side of a rocker switch ( can buy from repco/supercheap) then the positive into the fuse box then to rockerswitch can take photos for you just pm me!

sorry if i may of confused u big night last night!


cheers
kjdoohan

[henrytad]

i was thinking of doing this as well on my commodore executive VZ. but i had a few people tell me its not nice but those photos above looked really good! any suggestions?

[kdoohan]

yea mate my cars pretty much the same as yours but white i can post photos up sometime

[henrytad]

how do they look? you reckon its worth doing to mine

[Timmos]

i reckon it's lost its effect.. too many idiots with stock 90's ford lasers and pulsars stick them on their car to look hecktic.. Gives it a sort of cheap look.

Sorry just my opinion

[GAMBLR]

My concern is the aesthetic appeal when the lights aren't on. A plastic tube attached to the outer headlight... anyone got some photos of them attached?

[henrytad]

your oppinion counts lol

[ALIII]

Wow, I was expecting something a lot more expensive...

Kjdoohan, can u post up some pictures to show what they look like at night?

Thanks

[ALIII]

OK, well i just bought those strips from the link above, i just realised that the LED have a cool white light and the normal globes that come from factory are yellow -_- now i need to purchase some LED globes for the main headlights and fog lights....

has anyone else changed theirs? if so, pics and prices please

[henrytad]

let me know how they took, PHOTOS PLEASE
im interested

[ALIII]

Woohooo I just got home to find my LED's sitting at my door... I will use this long weekend to get them mounted

Still looking for tips on how to mount them on....

[ALIII]

Hi all, just thought i would give an update... job status = complete

[Anwyll]

Actually looks better than I thought.

Regarding LED Headlight globes, I thought the LEDs weren't really up to the level of brightness halogens can achieve?

[az_sv6]

nice how did ya did ya rig it up? ya have a separate switch for em?

[DylanVZ]

Nice man they look really good, nice and clean look when there not on to.

[Owned]

Hi Guys,

First of all i have searched and could not find any other 'how to' tutorials on this topic. I have seen some VZ SV6's that have changed their parking lights to LED's.

I would love to hook some up on my SV6, but need some help.

Can anyone shed some light on this topic for me or point me in the right direction?

ie:

voltage on LED's
where i can get some
mounting tips
etc

Here are some examples,

WOW its good to see other people following this trend of having L.E.D's underneath the headlight. Sadly I removed mine last week due to the fact that it defeated the purpose of having the 2 hole mod or any CAI mod, as there was no where for the MCAI to draw cold air in from as the tube of L.E.D's blocked the cold air from entering underneath the headlight. It then had no choice but to draw in hot air from the engine bay, this resulted to performance loss, especially it warm/hot days.

[tim005]

are these lights legal?
they look very very bright.
but they also look very very very good haha.

[Hotblack]

WOW its good to see other people following this trend of having L.E.D's underneath the headlight. Sadly I removed mine last week due to the fact that it defeated the purpose of having the 2 hole mod or any CAI mod, as there was no where for the MCAI to draw cold air in from as the tube of L.E.D's blocked the cold air from entering underneath the headlight. It then had no choice but to draw in hot air from the engine bay, this resulted to performance loss, especially it warm/hot days.

I had a good look behind the light assembly and there is a large hole that leads down behind the bumper so cold air should not be a prob.....Mick.

[ALIII]

the tube of L.E.D's blocked the cold air from entering underneath the headlight.

Well, my bumper was sitting flush with the headlights to begin with; there would be no difference in performance in my opinion as the air intake was designed it come from somewhere other than a tiny gap below the lights.

are these lights legal?
they look very very bright.
but they also look very very very good haha.

i did my research and made a nice long post in relation to the legality of the LED's in the electrical section, here is the link.
LED lights legal or not... ANSWER


Long story short...
white LED's = legal
blue = illegal

[tim005]

i did my research and made a nice long post in relation to the legality of the LED's in the electrical section, here is the link.
LED lights legal or not... ANSWER


Long story short...
white LED's = legal
blue = illegal[/QUOTE]

thanks heaps mate.
it seems no one can give anyone a straight answer on the legality of these lights.
seems you have done the job.
i am keen as now to get some white lights going in the ute.

[az_sv6]

2x New 48 LED 48cm strip white light for all style cars - eBay LED Lights, Lights, Indicators, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 16-May-10 16:25:48 AEST)
i got mine from him/her they come withing do days just dont do what i do and order it on friday and relise no mail sunday!
i glued mine under the lights with some superglue, had the wire running in on the cornors from there weld the positive and negitives together. i didnt it this way you dont have to from there i had the negitive connected to the negitive side battery and the positive run up the left hand side into the car from there to the fusebox under the stearing wheel drilled a hole connected the negitive to the positive side of a rocker switch ( can buy from repco/supercheap) then the positive into the fuse box then to rockerswitch can take photos for you just pm me!

sorry if i may of confused u big night last night!


cheers
kjdoohan

so you connected both negatives from each LED and wack'em onto the negative side of of the bat. then run the positive wires into a switch in the car somewhere.
am i on the right track? im not very good with this kinda thing.

[GAMBLR]

Hi all, just thought i would give an update... job status = complete

Thats probably not quite as bad as I pictured it. Is it really noticable when you look at it, or are they fairly discreet and factory looking?

[Hotblack]

so you connected both negatives from each LED and wack'em onto the negative side of of the bat. then run the positive wires into a switch in the car somewhere.
am i on the right track? im not very good with this kinda thing.

i found the easiest way was to tap onto the green and black wire in the parker circut with the + on the led and just run the negative to the body of the cars somewhere convenient, job done lights come on when ever the parkers are turned on...

[calay]

I just went + and - on the parkers - very easy and don't have wires running around everywhere...