You may be right stromdriver
yeah tried again, no low voltage issues, you should try the suggestion i got from the guy at superbright leds about the 480ohm resistor across the contacts
so those festoons are insanely bright, the four up front light up the cabin almost completely once i tilt the emitters out a lil bit(rather than straight down) and the one for the cargo lights up great as well
tried to get pics but they all came out blurry
the fuse style lights for the vanity mirrors work really well too.
took the wife out to try them and she proclaimed 'jeesh they're too bright....i want you to do this to mine (shes planning on possibly pickin up a cx5 as well)'
but i'm somewhat displeased with my reverse and license plate lights, the bulbs i got were directional (aim light straight out) and the reverse light mounts are actually angled out to the sides. the plate lights mounts dont point straight down either, they actually go out almost horizontally so i'll be sending both sets of those lights back and getting side firing for the plate, and see if they have cluster blubs that point in all directions for the reverse.
as to my drls....jury is still out...
i picked up some ones on amazon that seemed to be just like the jdm ones but for a lil cheaper. except that it appears that each round emitter actually has 3 tiny points in it instead of illuminating completely.
so will have the wife drive down the street and back towards me to see how bright they are because standing in front if it they aren't particularly bright and barely lit up ground last night unlike kimchei said his do. they certainly don't seem as bright as the pics on the amazon page for them...
