FJ Cruisers of Northern California

Putco LED dome lights

I decided to buy one after seeing them in BritMok's ride. Ordered it from Amazon.

Initial impression --

PROs:

Easy to install, nice and bright. Sometimes too bright.

CONs:

Replacing both with LED lights makes the cabin super bright. For me, it was too much.

Conclusion -- Buy it. It's better than the dimly lit incandescent alternative.

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UPDATE since original POST - Snapped two pictures this morning unadulterated shots --

This one is the "modded" front one. Touched up with the RED dry erase pen. You can notice a little violet color, but definately not white anymore.

There is the shot of the rear dome lights, stock PUTCO, with no mods or coloring.

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Permalink Reply by potatomutato on December 14, 2010 at 12:21am

i thought the white was too bright as well, so i went with blue which still lights up things better than the stock bulbs. i may eventually revert back to my original plan of using red or green, which is good for night vision or do a half-and-half with red or green in the front and a white in the back switched on whenever needed, not with the doors.

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Permalink Reply by EYP on December 14, 2010 at 1:37am

How did you mod the LEDs? I used dry eraser pens to test out colors. It works OK, and if you don't like it, just wipe it with a paper towel.

I will try your half-and-half idea. Thanks for the idea.

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Permalink Reply by potatomutato on December 14, 2010 at 8:17am

interesting...hadn't thought about using pens to color the lights. i bought colored LEDs from oznium.

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Permalink Reply by EYP on December 14, 2010 at 8:50am

I'm Chinese, therefore cheap. always looking for the shortcuts. ;)

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Permalink Reply by EYP on December 14, 2010 at 2:58pm

Necessity is the Mother of Invention............

The magic of painter's tape.

BAM!!!!

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Permalink Reply by opg4759 on December 14, 2010 at 10:29am

You could look at running a couple resisters in line to the lights, that would be a cheap and easy way to dim them. Or if you wanted to get even fancier you could put a variable resister (aka potentiometer) inline and that would all you to dim on demand.

I've been thinking about doing this with my white Oznium leds I've been running for 4 years.