Ok, so you have decided to purchase the 194 LEDs for your car off ebay. Sure, it seems to work fine in the trunk. Works great for the rear plate. Cool, however it does not seem to work well in your map lights inside the car. It seems to stay on all the time, but being super dim. Well I will show you how to fix this problem.

You can do this to any 194 LED light. Here are the ones that I have purchased:


Step One: Go to your local RadioShack store and pick up a pack of 1k Ohm 1/8th Watt Resistors.



Step Two: Take the base of the LED light. Do this by prying the wires from the base. Then pulling the base straight out:



Step Three: Take one of the resistors. Bend one leg at a 90 degree angle. Cut off the leg leaving about 1/8th inch of led. The solder it to one side of the LED light board. It will not matter what side of the resistor to use, since resistors are not polarized.



Step Four: Measure and cut the other led. Then you can bend it towards the other leg. Doing this will prepare the other side. They solder it.



Step Five: You are almost finished. Your LED board should look like this. I also took the liberty to straighten out the LED leads.



Last Step: Put the base back on the LED in reverse of how you removed it. Make sure you do this to both LEDs for the map lights. Enjoy normal operation of your map lights.

 

Approved

 

subd! Very helpful thanks!

 

just might have to do this, i dont care how they always on but my buddys always bitching about it lol

nice how to

 

very nice

 

Nice "how-to"

 

thanks for doing this im getting blue map lights and really dont want the blue to be on all the time!

 

yayyyy just did this and it works amazing! spent 2.99 on bulbs on ebay and 3 for the resistors, winning

 

will this work for my done lamp? it dims out nicely but when it (goes out) it stays on very dim. what what resister would you recommend?

 

Excellent write up. Been wondering how to do this.

 

can some one post pictures of the interior LED lighting?
also, can i use this LED on the licence plates? any specific part# for this LED lights?

 

All the smaller exterior lights except the reverse lights and Thirdbrake light are 194s and would fit.

 

Subd. Very nice write up.

 

what about led bulb to the dome light how do you do the resistor to that?

 

Holy small LED. We shoe a 16 LED in the maps

 

16 LED 194 bulb that fits in the map lights with cover on? What are they 3528 SMD's?

 

Does anyone know if there is a difference in the metal resistors and the carbon film? Does it matter what we use?

 

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Why

 

Subd