Hello, who has already changed the footwell interior lighting on LED?

Which lamps do you need?

 

Yes, and you need T10 wedge W5W.
Literally thousands to choose from on Fleabay, SMD LED, Cree or COB (Chip On Board), after trying heaps of them over a number of cars I prefer COB.
Plenty of colours to chose from as well, best choices for the F-Type would be bright white, blue or "ice blue" which is very close to the default Phosphor Blue lighting scheme.
On my RHD car the driver's side was easy to access and change but the passenger side was a bit tricky to get at.

 

Do you have an ebay link for me?

 

I just put "T10 LED" into eBay Motors and got 75,569 hits, see here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...ed&_sacat=6000
If you have trouble ploughing through that many try filtering by type (eg COB) and/or colour (eg ice blue).

 

Thx

 

Hopefully you are narrow shouldered. Really, really awkward contorting to get under the dash and work. Bulb under passenger side is a real pain.

 

Burt, I know what you mean!
I'm 6', 220 lb and wide in the shoulders and it was a bit of a struggle but I got there in the end. The secret to the passenger side one is to squirm in and under on your back and keep wriggling around until you find a position where you can get the fingers of one hand on the globe to pull it out without breaking your back. IIRC I poked my head under first to get a sighter on the globe so I could figure out exactly where it was and it's orientation, and then I moved position to get a hand on it and I went by feel after that. I found it impossible to get both eyes and fingers on it at the same time, as you say you just can't fit a shoulder and your head in far enough at the same time for that.

 

In addition to the bulbs you're referring to, has anyone changed the puddle lights on the bottom of the door?

 

Search is your friend!
Heaps of us have replaced the puddle lights with logo projector lights, very cheap and very easy DIY.
If you don't want or like logo projector lights then simply replace the bulbs with T10 wedge W5W LEDs, again a piece of cake to do.

 

I did search, but some of the threads refer to "stepwell lighting", while others are referring to puddle lights being on the mirrors. Figured it wouldn't hurt to ask here. And thank you for the info. Just wanted to make sure I was buying the correct bulbs.

 

Do you have an F-Type?
If not maybe you are in the wrong sub-forum.
The XF has puddle lights on the under sides of the external mirrors and none in the doors, the F-Type is the other way around.

 

Yes. 2017 F Type SVR. I just don't post here much. Spend most of my time on Rennlist.

 

Bumping this ancient thread. Did anyone recently buy footwell LEDs that match the OEM phosphor blue closely?

I've been using ice blue ones with a very close colour match. I've had these LEDs for years and also used them in my previous XFs before but one of them started flickering so I ordered a new set. There's loads and loads of "ice blue" ones out there, but the new ones are clearly more blue than the phosphor blue which also has a touch of green. So I'm looking for another set but want to avoid wasting time on another set that doesn't quite match... so any links to "ice blue" footwell LEDs that actually have a similar colour as the OEM phosphor blue would be great.

 

I tried all sorts of interior LEDs in my XFS and XFR and a few in the F-Type, and after lots of trial and error including multi-chip SMD and Cree I decided that the best ones were COB - "Chip On Board". So look for those in Ice Blue if you can.
That said the only ones I have replaced in the F-Type are the two footwell lights (if you discount the projector puddle lights) and I went with bright white COBs rather than Ice Blue as I wanted lots of light. That was well over four years ago now and they are still going strong with never a problem.

Edit - these are the type I got but in Ice Blue instead of white: https://www.ebay.com/itm/32285103707...gAAOSwzQFZ8-Hk

Edit 2 - just checked the size of those and they may be a tad too big!

 

Cheers Kim. Yep, I also had different types in my XFs over the years and remember that I found COBs best as DRLs in my first pre-facelift XF because they were so super bright in only one direction. Why do you find the COBs best by the way? Strongest light?

Anyway I guess the technology itself shouldn't affect the colour which is my main concern. Should be light blue with a touch of green.

Hmm, yes, those do look a bit big. Might fit on the driver side but perhaps not on the passenger side where IIRC space was more limited. Will consider them anyways.

 

I preferred the COBs for two reasons - strongest light and most reliable by far. Never had a COB conk out on me but most of the SMDs and Crees conked at some point.

 

I swapped the footwells and have some additional T10 bulbs. Are there any other good places to swap these for OEM's?

 

You should be able to do the puddle lights in the bottoms of the doors as well, if you haven't already done something aftermarket there.

 

I already put puddle lights in a couple years back.

 

None that I know of, at least not in an F-Type, I had the same idea many years ago when I replaced the footwell lights with LEDs so I went exploring for more halogen globes and found none except for the reversing lamps (P21W).
The overhead console lights are already LEDs and you can't access the globes anyway and the boot/trunk lights are also already LEDs.
All the other lights I changed to LEDs were not T10s - the headlights, the puddle lights and the reversing lamps.
Edit - whoops, of course the stock puddle lights are T10s and at first I did replace them with plain LEDs!