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Old 11-16-2009, 10:22 PM
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Weekend project that my brother in law helped me out with. Audi style LEDs!
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Lights off
 

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Old 11-16-2009, 11:43 PM
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very nice did u run into any problems, and how long did it take you?
 
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Old 11-16-2009, 11:46 PM
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Yeah, lookin' good! Are they strip or individual LEDs?

BTW: For pictures, use the [img] code.
 
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Old 11-17-2009, 09:21 AM
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A write up would be nice. Those look good.
 
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Old 11-17-2009, 09:33 AM
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Agreed, Aubrey!!
 
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Old 11-17-2009, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by virgin1
Yeah, lookin' good! Are they strip or individual LEDs?

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Are the pictures showing up on its own?

They are individual LEDs. We disassembled the foglight and drilled holes to put the lights in.
 
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Tracker: The only hardships of the project were how to disassemble the foglights out of the car and where and how to wire the lights to. Virgin1 helped us out a little on that!
The whole project took about 15 hours, with a few breaks.
 
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Originally Posted by MazdaAEM
Are the pictures showing up on its own?

They are individual LEDs. We disassembled the foglight and drilled holes to put the lights in.

Not quite... The post USED to say, "edited by virgin1..." I added the correct [img] tags for you.

WOW!! I thought so, though. I could not see a strip in there.
How did you get them so even? Did you make up a drilling template first?
Nice job!!
 
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Old 11-17-2009, 11:31 PM
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Oh I see! Well thank you. Do I just use the [img] tags and put the link on to the picture?

Thanks! It was tough but my brother in law helped a bit.
Nope we just measured out the length of the channel that was available, divided it up evenly, marked it up and drilled away
 
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jeez, so much time but it came out beautiful, how do you have them wired, individual or to your parking lights
 


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