Just did a couple of simplemods to my two and love em fitted new led bulbs to front park lights and red cluster leds took about an hour in total and really brings the mr2 bang up to date seriously advised to anyone who wants to update their two on a budget

Any pictures?

I was trying to get pics but they were turning out crap didnt look half as bright as they were on dash ill get a pic of park lights tho their class.

Went a bit mad myself...just waiting on some communist mail to arrive

2x 12 SMD RED LED (For door cards)



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4 x 12 SMD LED (For dash clocks)


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.......I have something else up my sleeve for the boot light, that is bascially shit in all fairness...watch this space

Ha Jesus and i thought i was addicted to ebay mite get them ones for the plates and the dome light ha they will see us coming anyway we will be well lit up

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Ha Jesus and i thought i was addicted to ebay mite get them ones for the plates and the dome light ha they will see us coming anyway we will be well lit up

Yep I've a shitload of mods to do in the coming months...folding mirrors, heated leather seats and a few other tasteful mods.

Haha...all led stuff comes from china and we dont have to worry about canbus errors:

FYI Heres who I used for those bits...very cheap as well:

Dome (2 required)

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem...me=ADME:L:OU:US:3160

Plate (2 required)

www.ebay.com/itm/9-SMD-5050-LED-Car-Inte...me=ADME:L:OU:US:3160

im addicted to leds me last car was like a diso on the inside

Ha your as bad as me with your constant spending on the 2!ends stuff take long to come from China i have only ever bought from UK i must get those bits cheers mate!where will you get heated leathers?

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Ha your as bad as me with your constant spending on the 2!ends stuff take long to come from China i have only ever bought from UK i must get those bits cheers mate!where will you get heated leathers?


Its just the heating pads and loom you put them under your existing seat covers and wire in

One of the lads on another forum put same kit in his 7 series

I can get ye a link if you want on iPhone here ...it's 60eur for 2 seats

I seen a thread about the heated seats on another forum recently, here she is...
www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12...t=heated&start=0
Thought I'd share it here, maybe of some use to those thinking of this mod.

Cheers man...have similar kit to that I am going to fit them over the xmas break

So far 2 packages have arrived, very impressed with the dome lights

LED Lights - 48 SMD led board x2:


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These 12SMD bulbs are destined for the dash clocks ;)


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Wow massive improvement

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Wow massive improvement

Change from a fiver and 2 minutes to fit....the difference is epic...love them I have to say...I reckon the red SMD leds for the door cards will look savage with the leds/'

Fitted my chinese LEDs to the MR2 dash panel,,

Have to say its night and day the comparison! some difference..camera had same shutter speed as OEM bulbs / leds

12 SMD Leds


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Remove cluster:


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The bulb holders need slight modification, using a small screw driver push in the contact clips and up the side contacts


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As for brightness even at full dial its perfect...way brighter then OEM but no need to break out the sunglasses!

UPDATE:

Not too happy with the boot light in the MR2...the filament bulb was worse then useless and the 8SMD LED was pretty poor as well, I'd given up and used my LED torch to find stuff in the boot...then I got a 140 LED strip and soldered on a 501 connector...and at last there was light!

...also the passenger seat is out and the heating pads are fitted...but thats enough for one day. I also want to soundproof under the seats while their out. with some deadening stuff that E39 MSport gave me ages ago.

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a savage job i definatley want to do the dials like that

Door courteousy lights arrived (red),,,much brighter, unfortunately 2 rows aren't working on one of them and I only ordered 2
I'l get back on to DX but its still brighter then the oringinals


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Awesome, looks very well. Ur all set for xmas i take it
Im gonna get some too, the dash ones look a lot better than before

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Awesome, looks very well. Ur all set for xmas i take it
Im gonna get some too, the dash ones look a lot better than before

Ha its getting there

Re: red courteousy leds...ordered 2 more...deal extreme gave me store credit for the faulty one so happy days

Changed the regplate LEDs again...much brighter with the new ones although the old ones were quite acceptable, just the board is much better for this setup

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A while back I changed the reverse bulbs to LED - some difference not too many before and afters:

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Ha I love Communist mail.
It's built my Corolla project to date.

Cool thread! KC+1
I did the same conversion on my Corolla with SMD LED boards and the difference is huge.
I plan to do the same with the MR2 soon.

Finally got around to doing the red transparency mod on the dash clocks (just waiting for darkness for some pics)

While the clocks are out I changed the full dip bulb to a blue LED - I always thought the bulb was a bit of the dim side and hard to see sometimes - probably not wise to change any of the other bulbs though!

Got some #74 bulbs from fleabay (used the blue one)


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Lovely overall improvements to the lights,well done.

Would you have a list of all the bulbs you have changed (bulb numbers)?
Would like to copy what you have done, just too lazy to do all the ebay searching

Which ebay seller did you order these from (too many shops selling rubbish on ebay, would prefer to order from a known seller)

Cheers,

Shane