look up the part number, and then call your local dealer and ask them. Most likely its a 5 or 10 watt bayonet style bulb mounted inside a reflector housing just like the angel eyes.
thanks well so its a 10w halogen bulb... hm well im wondering if i can figure out the exact bulb . and does anyone know how to access this bulb? i dont want to tear up the whole door panel just to change this little bulb.
I told you before and Im telling you again...you MUST remove the door panel to get to this bulb.
If you dont want to open up the door panel just to see what kind of bulb it is and if anyone even makes it in hyperwhite or LED, then go to the dealer and buy the bulb. Then you can see exactly what style it is. My bet is that its a bayonet style bulb, probably a Ba9
no doubt, with the tint it looks good. All you see are the door handles light up. Ours is tinted pretty dark so none of the interior lights effect the outside.
You can go out N the dark garage and just hit the button to light it up and not even need to turn on the lights. Pretty nice.
I think the xenon colored LEDs with the yellow interior light looks awful. The new Caddy DTS has xenon colored LEDs in the overhead console and regular yellow lights in the bottom of the doors, looks like crap together.
Actually the bulb size is a Ba9....
I went on Ebay and I bought 4 LED in Ba9 size...the only problem here is removing the door panel, it sucks and is really hard because you don't want to do a mess in your door panel, there's 5 screws you need to remove, one is behind the air bag plastic emblem, 2 in the middle of door, one behind the handle, and another small one in theplastic party closer to the body of the car. Then after that you need to pull really hard to release the plastic retainers, pulling from the bottom.
Then there's a little black cylinder and the bulb is there inside.
Lol i remember back in the day someone said its impossible and has to do something with fiberoptic cable i have all my interior light updated to LEDs and door lights are ugly yellow. I dont mind taking the door apart i want to know 100% its possible
Its 100% true about fiber optics, there's a small chamber with the bulb inside and a fiber optic cable all the wary up to the door handle, but the bulb is replaceable.
You only need 2 sizes of torx screwdrivers 30 and 10 to remove the door.
My car only lights up on the driver side handles,is that how everyone's is or maybe the passenger sides at blown?i wanted to make sure before I take them apart?
I haven't done the project, but I did take my door off to see for myself what I was dealing with before I went out and bought bulbs.
1st - you do not need to remove the entire door panel. I disconnected the negative battery terminal just in case since there is an air bag in the door. I then removed the 5 screws in the door and then worked my way around unclipping the door from bottom right all the way around, but I did not remove the top clips. I left a 5 gallon bucket upside down just below the door just in case the panel were to fall. I then lay down on my back right under the door with my head near the end of the door near the steering wheel. If you tilt the door panel at an angle just enough (6-8 inches) you can see the light module. All you need to do is disconnect the cable from the bottom, disconnect the fiber from the top by pressing the 2 clips and then pulling up. Once the light module has been detached you can remove it altogether by using a ratchet with a torn 30 bit (might be 25 but pretty sure it was 30). Once the screw is removed just pull the light module away and it separates into two pieces. push down and twist and the bulb comes right out. The bulb was a 64113 12volt 10watt halogen. I believe it is also known as a BA9S, which was mentioned in this post. I just wanted to confirm for myself. I will now go out and buy the bulbs (either ultra white halogen or white LED on a BA9S base). I have included pictures so you can see for yourself.
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