Interior lighting

[Malbec 56 Beast]

All,

My one complaint so far with my new car is that the interior lighting is so dim/low that it drives me nuts. Am I overlooking an adjustment that I can do or do I need to upgrade the bulbs to LED's get a brighter interior at night.

Thanks
Andy

[MY2J]

upgrade to LED's... it's a 10 minute procedure to do the whole interior!

link: m56-interior-exterior-led-lighting-over ... 20interior

[ibc]

Yup, original bulbs were lame. LEDs are much better & brighter. I replaced all my interior lights with these LEDs:

Passenger side dome: both (a) and (b) soldered together at once.
Driver side dome: Only (b).

Where:
(a) 900 lumens (BA9S) = https://www.amazon.com/LUYED-Bright-Int ... _263_img_2
(b) 600 lumens (BA9S) = https://www.amazon.com/LUYED-Bright-Int ... ef=sr_1_84

In the rear domes, I used this:
https://www.amazon.com/SYLVANIA-ZEVO-Wh ... _sim_263_3

In the trunk, I used a 15-LED panel (T10, of size 20 mm x 40 mm), which is really bright. Nice!
In puddle-doors, I used a 12-LED panel (T10, of size 17mmx48mm).

The ONLY place where the new LED was too bright was the vanity mirror (3-SMD 5050 type), which sweetie doesn't like:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008B ... ailpages00

[Malbec 56 Beast]

I didn't even know there were lights by your legs. OMG Nissan, you guys can do better than that. I get the "mood lighting" but Jesus! I didn't even know most of these locations existed.

So with the arrays do you need two sided tape to secure them.

Thanks guys for the reply. I did find the page with the wire up.

Andy

[Ilya]

There is a HowTo on replacing all of the bulbs with LEDs if you search for it.

[M37xfan]

I didn't even know there were lights by your legs. OMG Nissan, you guys can do better than that....

Andy

When I got my car there were black light covers over the lights in the footwells of passenger and driver. I ordered the clear light covers and replaced bulbs with LED.

[MY2J]

^^^or just remove the covers and leave them off once you replace the bulbs with LED (that's how I'm running mine)

[ibc]

My original Infiniti M56 footwell lamp lenses were blackened out, so I bought 2 of these replacement lenses (Nissan P/N 26421-4P000) that are CLEAR, not black. This clear lens also happens to exactly match the clear lens in my M56 trunk. It's also used in many older Infiniti models:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INFINITI-264214 ... 1892867170

For reverse LED lamps, I bought these JDM Astar-px921 (800 lumens LED):
https://www.amazon.com/JDM-ASTAR-Extrem ... ref=sr_1_1