Recent content by oroboy

Hate to tell you this, but usually the "special interior protection" that dealers apply to the interior is nothing more than a leather conditioner/scotchguard type of application. The same goes for the "paint sealant" on the outside of the vehicle that they try to make you purchase for a few...

Well, thanks for going through all that trouble to get info guy... I appreciate that. I finally got my LED turnsignals in on Friday, and as I expected, they flashed at a higher rate. What I didn't expect is that when I tested the 4-way flashers, the LED's flashed at the normal rate... so that...

Here are pictures of the interior lights if anybody's interested. I got the high-powered 1W Hyper White bulbs from TunerDomes.com. Picture quality ain't the best (camera phone), but at least it gives you an idea. The last picture that I took of the inside while standing on the front outside of...

@DocMazda: Here are the pictures I promised of the backside. Apologies for the picture quality, but as my digital camera is broken at the moment, all I have to use is the camera on my cell phone. Both the license plate lights as well as the reverse lights were purchased at Superbrightleds.com...

The engine does not turn the alternator the same regardless. That's why running your A/C all the time sucks gas faster. The car's lighting system maybe insignificant compared to the A/C, but there is a load difference. The voltage regulator senses the charge condition of the battery and...

Thanks Aloha808, glad to be here. Wish I was in "Sin City" right now hitting the Megabucks machine...:p Had to postpone my trip from this October (*sigh*... no SEMA again for me this year), to next Feb. or March. Used up my spending money on the downpayment for the car, and all the little...

Switching to LED's are more than just looks (which is also why I'm installing them); the benefits of LED's are not known by most people. For one thing, the life span of LED's is at least 3 times (30,000 hours) that of incandescent bulbs (of course, you probably don't need it to last that long...

I too used a papertowl... and pliers (squeezing gently). At first I tried a microfiber cloth and pulling with my fingers, but it just kept slipping off... I also tried the cloth with the pliers, but because the cloth was too thick, I couldn't get a firm grip, and it ended up slipping as well. I...

Kefe.

The heat problem from resistors is exactly why I didn't want to use them. Also, from what I've been reading else where, load resistors simulate the load used by filament bulbs, thus negating one of the useful properties of LED's, which is less power consumption. If that's the case, I might as...

There's someone who placed a wanted ad for 20" rims here in the marketplace. Here's the link to that thread: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123701507

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll take a look around the other forum sections...

Actually, I think I remember reading somwhere here in one of the CX-9 forums that someone did put in LED turn signals, and that they had to end up using load resisters to return the flash rate to normal... I could be wrong though.:p

Hey Ted, thank you for taking the time to answer my question, I really do appreciate the help. I did find a couple of relays in a small box off to the left of the fuse box in the engine compartment. A look under the cover of that small box shows that one of the relays as being the "TNS" relay...

I've been slowly changing out all the lights on my car to LED's, and only have to do the turn signals now. I've been researching around and noticed that due to the amount of power the LED's draw (less than filament bulbs), the turn signals flash at a higher rate of speed. Various websites that...