R36 Wagon LED Licence Plate Lights Install with Pics

[Jakeys]

I haven't changed the cornering light or the reverse or the fog lights yet. I'm not going to touch the reversing or fog lights I don't think, but the corner lights are something that I will get around to one day!!

The reverse is frustratingly dim given there's only one, but I'm not sure how much better you could do. The cornering lights are fine but it's annoying when you've got beautiful white front light and then you go to turn a corner and a big patch of yellow pops up. I think given that the car insists on having a fade effect that will not work with LED, perhaps Philips BlueVision might be the go there.

[Felixrising]

The reverse is frustratingly dim given there's only one, but I'm not sure how much better you could do. The cornering lights are fine but it's annoying when you've got beautiful white front light and then you go to turn a corner and a big patch of yellow pops up. I think given that the car insists on having a fade effect that will not work with LED, perhaps Philips BlueVision might be the go there.

Would you be able to use one of these CREE bulbs (CREE 1156 BA15S P21W) instead to boost your reversing light brightness?

[Jakeys]

Probably, risky at $43 though! Anyone had any experience?

[Felixrising]

Another potential alternative 1156 CREE globe

And of course DX.com: 1156 BA15S - Free Shipping - DX

Getting the right colour tempurature is tricky.. so many are 6500K or even 7000K... If there were some better 5000K options, it would be ideal.

[Jakeys]

Turned out fine on the license plate lights. My parker wedges arrived, turns out for my model (But not snerlo's) they are a direct fit in either location, and actually look perfect! Couldn't be happier with the output. Shame I wasted money on these modules but it's nobody's fault!

[Felixrising]

So the right hand side is those T10 W5W CANBUS error free LED globes you had? It sure looks a lot clearer, less old school.

Wow, love your plates! I decided to splurge on some custom plates for the R36 too.. "BLUR36" get it?! ;D

[Jakeys]

Correct. Here is the exact item. They will also work in your parkers and mirror puddles, although I would recommend the proper panel for the mirror puddles. snerlo has a guide for it somewhere, and I am very confident they have not been revised for MY10.5 so should be fine for us, but I get to fit them tomorrow morning when the post office opens!

And thanks regarding the plates! You'll love them even more when I get the Euro size ones finished! See in my display picture for how that will end up looking. Unfortunately in SA we aren't allowed to pick the combo for a Euro plate, so I got some made up from Custom European Plates and sent over in the same finish as my SA Custom ones. Can't fit them yet as they don't say SA on them so I am getting some silver stickers made up. It's a bit of a legal grey area as they are the correct combo and quality and are readable by cameras, and they're a legal size, but they're not 'custom' type plate shape, they are 'Euro' type shape. I've seen others pull this off, I am hoping I will have no issues with the fuzz about it. BLUR36 is cool, I thought of a car related one but I ran JAKEYS on my old car and people know it now so I just stuck with them.

[revivor]

Would you be able to use one of these CREE bulbs (CREE 1156 BA15S P21W) instead to boost your reversing light brightness?

I had one of these installed. My advice don't get them. Doesn't have enough light coverage around the rear of the car as it only worked like a small torch pointing rearwards.
I since returned to the original bulb which still provided more light coverage when reversing.


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[Jakeys]

Thanks so much for the advice, I was thinking about buying them! The stock reverse is crap, anyone know any better options?