Just Installed youledshop SMD Trunk LED! (Prototype)
 

As you've seen my thread last week, where I installed the whole interior led kit which included map lights, trunk light and license plate lights. While the map and license plate lights were perfect, I felt that the trunk led was not as bright as I think it should be. It's probably okay for some owners but I like my trunk area to be fully lighted as I do shopping and use the trunk regularly. So, thanks to cliff, he sent this awesome SMD Bright White led for my car to try out. Check it out:

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Not 1 or 2, 24 bright white led! :eek:

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As you can see, it fires straight into the trunk area not the plastic end!

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Perfect brightness!

The pictures may not show (because it's very hard to take picture of bright bulb at night) but this LED panel lights up the whole trunk. Also, unlike previous trunk led which illuminates straight(as some of you asked), this SMD LED puts out full output TOWARD the trunk as it sits flush with the clear plastic surface. :tup:

Here's a video:


P.S. I know my trunk is very dirty :o. I still have wood chips from the woods I bought for ramp extenders)

Conclusion: These bulbs illuminates the trunk area perfectly. If like your trunk fully light up, please don't forget to ask cliff when you place your led kit order. I like to give them 9.5 out of 10! Very happy with the whole led setup now! :tup:

you and your LED's...

price?

Nice, does it come in red?

does it strobe? i was hoping to install a dance club in my trunk

:icon17: I know I get carried away. But the car at night is perfect. Everything is white led. No more yellow ugliness.

Cliff should chime in.

I highly doubt it. Also, you don't want too bright red light for your dark room. You may get exposure on your films ;) (I took photography in High school :tup:)

:ughdance:

I like it.

Haha, good point.

It def looks better than the original LED. :tup:

Very nice. I just purchase a kit from them. Hopefully the trunk will be bright. If not, I'll just get this when it comes out.

love it, good idea for the trunk, its kinda hard to see in their at night lol

i was pleased with their price on the 5 led kit, so what did this run you?

hahah nice AK, i have two of those plates lighting up my license plate....

http://www.the370z.com/exterior-inte...brication.html

it is SO white and bright i know exactly how content you feel.

I was going to let cliff chime in on pricing but I'll say this, these leds are very reasonably priced compare to the other led guys/companies :tup: (I think about $15 for the whole 24 led circuit strip!)

oh my.. dude, where was this DIY! You've just gave me another idea. I must try this. I'll send you a rep or 100 on your way. It'll def set my car apart (in a nice way) at night. :excited:

You see kenchan, thanks to tbonesteak, I now I have another led project coming :tup:

Lol......bright white leds make me go coo coo AK.

I just ordered red for the dome light and trunk, white for my license plate. According to Cliff I should be the first to try red, so I will post pictures once I get and install them. Im a bit nervous that the red will look "ricer" but for the $35 Im willing to experiment, besides I rarely use the dome light and it may look cool at night.

Hey Guys,

First off i would like to thank AK for supporting and writing an honest review about our product.

Second, i would like to thank everyone on this board that purchased LED products from us. We just hit 1000 online orders, and we couldnt have done it without you guys.

Last but not least, The SMD LED Panels are now listed on our website. Once you click into 370z, there will be options for SMD Panels.

A couple members PMed me about different colors. As of right now, we only carry white. Our next shipment will have more color choices!

Thanks once again!

-Cliff
Home - Your LED Shop

Cliff, does this mean that my order placed today with red dome and trunk lights wont be shipped until you get your next shipment? Any ETA on that? Thanks.

sounds like one order got cancelled to 999... :icon18:

Wouldn't that be something hahah. Though no verbal confirmation from Cliff yet I just got an email that my order has been dispatched - I should get a prize for being Mr. 1000 :icon23:

We shipped out your order today! we meant that we wont get any other color SMD panels until the next shipment. Also, we included something extra for being Mr.1000 lol

We have all the normal kits in stock! SMD panels are only in white, and limited quantity.

-Cliff

Hot diggity damn!!! I wonder what it is, thanks Cliff!

dam my order just came in and now you can choose these. :/

really quick shipping.

Awesome! Thanks Cliff. Can't wait to get those two SMD I ordered today for the project! ;)

haha ... If you don't use your trunk a lot, you're probably okay with the ones come with the package. He does ship quick! :tup:

how quick was your shipping? It has been three days for me and nothing so far.

About 4 days. Ordered it last Sunday and got it on Thursday. I would recommend you guys to get the smd panel for the trunk because the high powered bulb only lights up 1/2 of the plastic housing.

I'm going to check it out tonight to see how bright is it.

I agree x 2 :iagree: :iagree:

First of all, big thanks to Tbonesteak for his AWESOME DIY! Thanks :tup: If it wasn't for this line, I don't think I would have the courage to push the housing hard the way I did.

Also, thanks to cliff from yourledshop for great price and quick shipping. :tup:

So, I finally finished all my led projects (at least I think). I already have the SMD LED in the trunk and I put the SMD in the license plate housing today. In the picture it may look too bright but since my paint (Monterey Blue) doesn't reflect light much (lets say compare to Pearl White), it's really not obnoxiously bright. It's just perfect IMO. I'm pretty happy with the install. It was a fun little project. Took me a little over 1 hour (wasted 10 minutes tried to bake the dam housing and that was FIAL :icon14:).

Here are some pictures:

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sorry guys, I know it looks exactly like the BEFORE picture. That's because camera compensates for the extra light :rolleyes:. There's nothing I can do

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/s...D/DSC04136.jpg

If you own a darker color Z and you think your current leds aren't bright enough for your plates, here your solution. :tup:

Lol i'm glad i was some kind of a help. Looks like your led panel is smaller than mine but you have more diodes. Looks nice n bright!!!

Yeah, it's a little smaller panel than yours but smaller led too. It's perfect. :tup:

nice DIY! :D

My god AK, looks like you havea headlight angled 90* down on your plate those look briiiiiight! LoL :eek:

Looks really good though! Congrats :tup: