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Originally Posted by ekam
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Okay, I'm going to get a little technical here... I need one of these H6W bulbs because the 996 I just bought has one burnt out. Of course you can't get them anywhere locally. Well no worries, I've got Litronic/Xenon lights on both my 986 and 996 and both use the H6W bulb as the "parking light" or "city light". So now it's time to upgrade to a white LED to better match the whiter light of my litronics. The normal halogen H6W bulbs give a bit of a yellowish glow - not cool.
So I did some more digging on eBay and was happy to find that Chinese imports have brought the price down from about $25/pair for LEDs a year ago to just $10/pair now. Here are some eBay auctions of LED replacement lights that I found:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2X-12V-Blue-Concave-BAX9S-H6W-64132-LED-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ350204495431QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMoto rs_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item5189d08647&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A1171%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A131 8
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2X-12V-White-Dome-BAX9S-H6W-64132-LED-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ350204495434QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMoto rs_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item5189d0864a&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A1171%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A131 8
I don't think that the single LED bulbs will be adequate. I've got a 4 LED bulb for my side markers and they're definitely not as bright as the regular bulbs. They look a lot like these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2x-12V-4-LED-Xenon-White-BAX9S-H6W-64132-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ350204495441QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMoto rs_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item5189d08651&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A1171%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A131 8
So I'm going to go with the 5 LED version of the H6W bulb, it uses a different kind of LED that's not as pretty but hopefully brighter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2pcs-BAX9S-H6W-64132-5-Power-LED-Xenon-White-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ200343531806QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMoto rs_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item2ea567b11e&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A1171%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A131 8
What I like about this one is that it's cheap, looks bright, and I like the fact that the seller has the dimensions pictured. I have two regular halogen bulbs to compare to - Osram and Phillips. I measure a base diameter on these of about 9.2 mm, base height of 13.5 - 14 mm and overall length of 29 - 30 mm. These numbers are very comparable to the 5 LED bulb except that bulb is about 2 - 3 mm longer, but that's not a fit issue.
My biggest concern with fit is the actual LED portion of the bulb that is 11 mm in diameter. The standard bulbs are less than 9 mm in diameter. But not worries... look at the second picture in this thread:
http://www.ppbb.com/scgi-bin/boards/986/main.pl?read=1505667
The plastic base that the bulb locks into is about 12.5 mm in diameter on both the turbo-style 996 light and 97-04 986 light. So the 11 mm bulb should fit through the hole fine.
We'll see how it works out...
Kirk