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You must be a glutton for pain! Does $30 still seem expensive? You've already spent $43 and countless time and energy searching, purchasing, installing, uninstalling, and returning LED drop-ins when your solution has already been suggested to you; forget the rest and go with the best. As I said before, Philips is the ONLY company currently producing legitimate (ie, SAE and ECE compliant) LED replacements for common automotive incandescent bulbs. FYI, part of the compliance is that they last a reasonably long time (unlike the imitations you've been buying!).
I'm only out about $20 and have since gone back to halogens. I could have returned the last set I got that failed, but whatever. You win smarty pants.
The 1156 supposedly puts out about 450 lumens. The above supposedly puts out 650 lumens. As far as I can tell, the new LEDs are brighter than the 1156s and much whiter. In short, I love them.
When seeing them in person, the individual LEDs can be easily discerned on both the reflectors, and the LEDS of the central flat plateau of the LED lamp can also be discerned through the hole in the center of that little chromed "stand" into which the lamp is inserted.
In the photo that contains both lamps, the individual LEDs can be seen pretty well on the driver's side, at about the 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock edge of the light.
The long-life incandescents are rated at about 2,400 hours, while these LEDs are supposed to last 50,000. We'll see about that. I'd be happy if they lasted 5,000! Again, so far I'm very pleased with these LEDs. My wife raved about them. She said that they make the vehicle look like it is a newer model and I had to agree with her.
Just an update. The new LED DRLs have turned on and operated well during a couple of recent -16C (+3F) periods in our locale. IMO the real test for these LEDs will be how they operate at, say, -25C (-13F) and, heaven forbid, below.
Does $30 still seem expensive? You've already spent $43 and countless time and energy searching, purchasing, installing, uninstalling, and returning LED drop-ins when your solution has already been suggested to you; forget the rest and go with the best. As I said before, Philips is the ONLY company currently producing legitimate (ie, SAE and ECE compliant) LED replacements for common automotive incandescent bulbs. FYI, part of the compliance is that they last a reasonably long time (unlike the imitations you've been buying!).
