Morning, fellow Blur owners,
So my first question as a new Blur owner is: What if any upgrades can be done to the Blur lighting?
I think I've got the main headlight replacement figured out from what's been posted here on MB. But what about the front and rear turn signals and brake light? I'd like to run LEDs. Is that doable on the Blur? Please include possible vendors with your posts.
Blur Lighting Upgrades?
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Turn signals to LED's are tricky... or at least expensive. You have to buy the relays that make them flash like normal since the relays that control them in stock form is based off wattage, you have to replace them with ones that work off timing - which may or maynot be more trouble than it's worth. I don't have the base types handy (that's at home... somewhere) but you can check with www.superbrightleds.com for starters.
You can pretty much upgrade all the lights with LED's for some prety substantial savings your electrical output. The dash lights are all the same, just get the correct base type and make sure you get wide dispersal LEDs for the backlight (the ones that aren't directly behind an indicator like the kill switch, hi-beam and turn indicators).
The under seat light can be replaced, which might help with possible battery draining that babblefish traced to it. I've not done that one, I just removed the light (I was actually measuring it for an LED replacement, lol) so depending on how the timer module works on that it may or may not make a difference.
The front marker lamps (the 4 orange in the headset) can be changed to white LEDs that will actually help night time visibility.
The tail/brakelight can be changed out as well, but you have to get a white one (even though red will work better for visibility because of the red cover and the way LED's work with light filtering) because the license plate light is actually a small panel of clear plastic at the bottom of the tail light cover.
davelhunter has done an upgrade on all his lights with LED's so he might be able to chime in with more info... all I've done is research, but I get distracted from projects too easily, lol.
You can pretty much upgrade all the lights with LED's for some prety substantial savings your electrical output. The dash lights are all the same, just get the correct base type and make sure you get wide dispersal LEDs for the backlight (the ones that aren't directly behind an indicator like the kill switch, hi-beam and turn indicators).
The under seat light can be replaced, which might help with possible battery draining that babblefish traced to it. I've not done that one, I just removed the light (I was actually measuring it for an LED replacement, lol) so depending on how the timer module works on that it may or may not make a difference.
The front marker lamps (the 4 orange in the headset) can be changed to white LEDs that will actually help night time visibility.
The tail/brakelight can be changed out as well, but you have to get a white one (even though red will work better for visibility because of the red cover and the way LED's work with light filtering) because the license plate light is actually a small panel of clear plastic at the bottom of the tail light cover.
davelhunter has done an upgrade on all his lights with LED's so he might be able to chime in with more info... all I've done is research, but I get distracted from projects too easily, lol.
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