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Old Jul 23, 2014 | 04:32 PM
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Hello.

I have ordered some silver indicator bulbs that flash orange, but I want to get rid of the horrible little orange 'side light' bulbs in the headlights.

Has anyone replaced these with LED bulbs or something that isn't orange? If so, what bulbs would I need to order to get rid of the orange?

Thanks in advance. .
 
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Old Jul 23, 2014 | 06:25 PM
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I changed my two on each side to white led.The orange ones are now white led and the 2 inside park lights same white leds. I got mine on ebayuk, just typed in 5 watt canbus error free white led sidelight bulbs, loads come up, mine have 8 leds on each bulb.
 

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Old Jul 24, 2014 | 04:13 AM
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Thanks mate, any chance of a photo?
 
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Old Jul 24, 2014 | 05:16 AM
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I have my car in the dealers till monday for service items, so will have no pics till then. The item number on e-bay for the leds is 120894246166 there is 10 n a strip, they just pull apart. I to fitted the chrome /orange indicator bulbs, they look better., hope this helps.
 
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Old Jul 24, 2014 | 10:34 AM
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I got these:

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I can't remember which was the indicator and which was the side marker. Both look silver when off but glow orange when on. EDIT TO ADD - actually looking at the picture it's pretty obvious This was the end result (sorry no pics with them on):

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autobulbsdirect.co.uk supply both of these.
 
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Old Jul 26, 2014 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Olxkr
Hello.

I have ordered some silver indicator bulbs that flash orange, but I want to get rid of the horrible little orange 'side light' bulbs in the headlights.

Has anyone replaced these with LED bulbs or something that isn't orange? If so, what bulbs would I need to order to get rid of the orange?

Thanks in advance. .
Hey I changed my Side light and asked this same this recently to!
I want to change my turn signal to an Actual LED but not 100% on the color yet.

Check out my Thread with all the pics I put. I used a 5smd LED and 20smd LED. Ordered them all from Amazon.

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...se-yet-119468/
 
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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 03:42 AM
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I have done the exact same as 8bit, very easy to do and looks great.
 
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Old Aug 3, 2014 | 02:09 PM
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I was excited about replacing the ugly orange directionals, and ordered the phillips bulbs. Unfortunately the 2011 u.s. version of the xk uses a 3457 bulb instead of the bayonet type. If anyone is interested in a new pair please let me know.
 
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