I try to stay away from “canbus” lights except in those rare cases when I absolutely need them, because they have those resistors in the base just to burn off extra current (as heat!!).
Map-lights, puddle-lights, footwell-lights, glovebox-lights… who needs canbus?? Only really for exterior lighting do you need them to not throw errors.
Oh, and this is what pisses me off. Everyone hawks those 6Ω resistors for turn-signals and the like. Uhhh, those’re burning over 2A!! Even with NO bulb installed, it won’t throw an error.
For my turn-signals, the LED bulbs are juuuuuuust under the threshold for throwing an error. Sometimes in cold weather it won’t even do that (coin-toss whether/not it does). So I got a bunch of 25Ω resistors to only cook off an extra half-amp or less, just to nudge it over that threshold. And if something happens to the LED bulb, it will still throw an error.
Hmm, trust random feedback saying they’re NW, or the printed spex and all the pix saying CW…?
I went with all WW, like those 5050s I pointed to in the previous post. Black leather interior, I just like the “warmth”.
My other car actually has a grayish-beige interior where WW would probably look nice, too, but I already did it in CW, which is all that was available at the time.
Yeah, 194, 921, W5W, T-whatever… they pretty much all fit the same base, but have different bulb sizes and lumenage.