dirtydust

I was going to replace the bulbs in the front parking/turn signals with a 2057 bulb from Superbrightleds.com BUT the bulb wont fit. Part of the bulbs circut bord wont allow the bulb to fit properly into the socket.

Anyone have success with another LED bulb that I shouold try? v-leds, ebay, etc?

BlackenedBird

iTrader: (5)

What car do you have? What housings? Any pics to show what/where it is hitting?

dirtydust

85 IrocZ - The housings are the stock front turn/ parking lights and the issue is when trying to put the bulb into the socket you can not push it in far enough to turn and lock it in place because part of the LED bulb is just a bit to wide and dosent allow you to push it down enough.

weswisehart

Only way around it is to cut about 1/8 inch of the plastic that the bulb sits in. I have done it to both my camaro's

dirtydust

Thats what i figured -
Thanks

weswisehart

No problem. The still sit in the housing fine and lock good so don't worry about that

Al Hasse

I'm having the same issue with a set of V-Stars from V-LEDs. They fit fine in the tail/brake socket, but the turn signal sockets (front and rear) don't allow the bulb to seat enough to twist/lock in place.

Exactly what I had planned to do. I dremmeled one socket I had on another harness, but that just melts the plastic. What I figured was a 13/16 (diameter of the V-Star circuit) drill bit on medium speed to prevent melting, and go down about 1/8".

weswisehart

I just cut it with a razor knife took all of 5 minutes to trim it.

graywolfman

Which LEDs did you get, and did you get thems to work? Have you done all of the external (Signal/marker/tail/reverse) lights? If so, were they bright enough?