Blue Markers Help

[cp___32]

I'm having a little trouble my "Blue" marker lights.

I've purchased 3 sets of marker lights for my car in the last 3 months, and for some reason they always start out blue, but soon after they end up a reeeeely oogly green. The colour I have right now resembles the groos green on the bottom of the cheap CDR's I used to buy.
Do you think the company, who shall remain nameless, *cough* :finger: Eurolite :finger: *cough**cough*, would have some kind of warranty? What brand is the best to go with, I've also had some cheap ones from Can Tire that did the same thing, but they were free from my bro. I have a short in one of the corner lights keeping one of the lights off until I wack it, so I know they have indeed lost their colour. I paid $15 CDN for each set, if you think maybe the cheap cost is the factor.
Also my best bud has an ML500 and his lights are super bluey/purple, what brand of light can I buy for my Civic that'll look blue like the bimmers and benz do??

[FourthGenHatch]

You know thos yellow/amber ones? How about getting some of those?

[cp___32]

Naw.... I want blue..... how bout going purple... what do you think they'd fade to though?

[tbk49]

dont buy Hiper's, theyre from japan but even though the bulbs are blue they look almost the exact same as stock, grrrrrrr...thats $25 i cant get back

[90civicrider]

Be Unique and do what i did.
Custom make yourself a circuit board, add a relay, add 2 Blue HID LED's, and stick them in the corner lamps and remove the bulb.
Trust me they will not fade, and they are bright as hell.

[FourthGenHatch]

Why do you have to make a relay and all that to put LEDs in?

[ci5ic]

Yeah, you should just need a couple of LED's and a current limiting resistor...

[cp___32]

Thanks for all the help.....I went to my local Import shop

AUTOSPORT CLUB!!!!! the best shop in London in case anyone lives near there.....I just picked up some LED turn signals for $20 which is only $5 more the the cheap peanuts I was using....

Those custom LED's you made look killer

[crxlvr]

i used APC blue signals i picked up at the local speed shop, and they never faded on me.

[Melt]

yea, APC is good shit, i dunno why eveyone is always so down on them. I did my washer leds the other day (white, dont want to risk being pulled over for impersonation of emergency vehicle) and it wasnt too hard to wire them up to the corners, I used the bolts in my headlights for the ground. They look kind of blue/purple (hiperwhite I guess) but its all good.

Funny thing is that even WalMart sells LED's now, but they look cheaply made and the package I looked at had a cracked light housing. Autozone is good shit, cant beat $10

[90civicrider]

Originally posted by FourthGenHatch
Why do you have to make a relay and all that to put LEDs in?

I used 2 30ohm resisters, and a 30amp relay. I'll get a pic of it.

[ci5ic]

30 AMPS?!?! Holy shit... Dude. Curent draw on an LED is like 20mA. So you'd need 1500 LED's to make 30A. I still don't understand why you are using a relay in the first place though.