Life Expectancy of Festoon LED's
03-07-2007, 01:30 PM
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Does anybody know the life of these LED lights that some of us have for our license plates?? I'm asking because I've gone through 2 LED's already and it's only been 4 months. The first one went out on me a few weeks ago when it started flickering and I didn't realize it until a cop pulled me over on 280 to let me know. He said it was distracting to other drivers and told me to fix it asap??!! Luckily, I didn't get a fix it or speeding ticket. 
I would think these bulbs would last longer?? And they aren't cheap either...
I would think these bulbs would last longer?? And they aren't cheap either...
03-07-2007, 03:49 PM
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I experienced that problem too. I don't know if its because of the resistors or not but I've gone through about 4 already. I bought 8 of them so I could just swap them out but still, the fail rate of these festoon bulbs is pretty high. Anyone else with this problem?
03-07-2007, 04:11 PM
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I've been having the same problem. Went through 4 sets already but I dont think its the resisters cause I've changed them out before but had the same result. BMW4LiFE has the same problem too.. I've writen emails to the website that i bought it from but got no reply. Maybe we should search for a different brand of leds
03-07-2007, 04:14 PM
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No problems here....so far. I hope these aren't shoddy bulbs b/c I just purchased/installed a whole set to replace the lights in my cabin/trunk. Like terracotta said, these ain't cheap.
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Originally Posted by iceman316' post='399915' date='Mar 7 2007, 08:11 PM
I've been having the same problem. Went through 4 sets already but I dont think its the resisters cause I've changed them out before but had the same result. BMW4LiFE has the same problem too.. I've writen emails to the website that i bought it from but got no reply. Maybe we should search for a different brand of leds
03-08-2007, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by cmansbimmer' post='399924' date='Mar 7 2007, 05:34 PM
If you find another company with another set, let us know, but I'd have to believe they won't be much different.
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