Just finished mounting my new led driving lights in my foglights today.

 

Nice - who sold them to you, what did they cost, where are they located, when did you get them after the order, and how did you put them in?

 

One more question....so are these LED lights inside the light housing but you RETAINED the incandescant light too? Or is it a full-on technology switch?

I am still not sold on LED technology for large scale area lighting.

 

I dunno, the last time those blue LEDs lit up the night a few car lengths behind me they looked plenty bright.....

 

I got the lights off of ebay. 80mm angel eyes. Took about two weeks to get them. Hooked them to an empty fuse in the engine bay with a piggy back fuse. The lights automatically come on when engine is running. They are on the inside of the foglights and held there by hot glue from glue gun. The original how to is located at disco3.co.uk's website under running lights.

 

@Savannah: Yes indeed, they look intense because you were looking AT them, not sitting behind them. They make great "indicator lights" meaning lights that you look at (turn signals, marker lights, etc) but I just don't know that I like them used for illuminating other objects (like the road).

I used to work aircraft lighting, and although the 787 uses LEDs for the interior area lights, I didn't like it. It was okay for "general" area lighting that is really diffuse and where you can put a TON of sources into the mix...and on an airplane and in an office there is room to dissipate the heat (at the junction on the PC board, not the face of the LED) but for purpose-lighting like headlamps or foglights, I'm more a fan of the Xenon arc-lamp technology. Also, the Incandescents (like our LR3 "filler" lamps) get hot at the filament so they melt ice and make condensation evaporate.

Not to **** in your Cornflakes, mx468, I'm sure they look sweet.

 

Here is a pic from the link on the disco3.co.uk forum. Looks like they would work well as daytime running lights and then complement the fogs when the fogs are turned on. What size is the factory fog on the '03/'04 D2? I may have to add these when I get my front bumper that is suppose to have '03/'04 type fogs that I can wire up to my older D2 still fog light wiring.

 

Hey buddy it's looking really good. You know I'm all into the leds so this is definitely something I have to look into. Let me know when you want your headlights done like mine and I'll do it for you