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Contributed by by Adam Koczarski, STOC #265.

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Updated 4/14/2007: Finally gave up and reinstalled the stock bulbs. Too much heat for LEDs in the headlight housing. Too bad. I really liked the look of the LED bulbs. I had the same issues trying there in my Mazda RX8.

Updated 8/6/2006: The Autolumination bulbs are also starting to fail. I guess there's just too much heat in the ST headlight for any brand of LEDs. :(

Updated 5/5/2006: I've given up on the SuperbrightLEDs and have switched to the Autolumination 194 LEDs. So far, so good.

Updated 8/24/2005: I recently had several of the LEDs in these arrays fail so I ordered some replacements from SuperBright. I also noticed that they came with a one year warranty. SuperBright <was> going to replace them until they realized I was using these lights in an application that subjected them to the heat of the headlight bulbs. They claim that LEDs cannot withstand this type of heat for a long period of time. I went ahead and bought some of their 'next generation' bulbs to give it another shot, but was told I would not be getting free replacement bulbs under warranty.


WLED-X6 LED 12 volt bulb from SuperBrightLED.


Has the same type of connector as the stock bulbs.


The bulbs look pretty blue, but in an HID type of way. Very bright!


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Thank You again for your contribution Adam Koczarski, STOC #265