White Turn Signal / Parking Light Bulbs

[PhiSig]

For my 2G I am trying to white out my parking lights/turn signal. I know i need 1157 bulbs to do this. My question is are the OEM bulbs amber, or is there an amber lense inside the OEM headlight assembly?

Also, it looks like I can access the parking light bulbs through plastic doors just behind and to the side the headlights in the engine bay. Is that correct?

Before I take my whole headlight assembly apart I wanted to ask someone who has tried this. Thanks.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by PhiSig
For my 2G I am trying to white out my parking lights/turn signal. I know i need 1157 bulbs to do this. My question is are the OEM bulbs amber, or is there an amber lense inside the OEM headlight assembly?

Here is a complete autopsy, with grisly photos of the guts:

http://www.auburn.edu/~fauchpj/headlight.htm

Also, it looks like I can access the parking light bulbs through plastic doors just behind and to the side the headlights in the engine bay. Is that correct?

A-yup, that's why it's there.

 

[Clipz99]

Hey quick question. Isn't that illegal to have a different color, other than yellow, as your turn signal? Not that I'm a law abiding citizen or anything but I live in Gwinnett county right, above Atlanta, and the cops are a pain in the butt up here. I just don’t want to waist my time and money getting pulled over all the time.

 

[chriw21_2000]

it is illegal in GA, I dunno about other states. All turn signals have to be amber unless they are in the taillight and then they are red with the breaklight.

Laterz

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by Clipz99
Hey quick question. Isn't that illegal to have a different color, other than yellow, as your turn signal?

Amber. Yeah, it's Federal regs, and the local constabulary loves to fatten their coffers with this easy $20 ticket. And, it gives them the chance to dick with kids, one of their favorite pastimes.... kinda like Michael Jackson, but few of them dance so well.

You can use a "clear" or chrome reflector with an amber bulb- and now, they're making silvered bulbs that don't eff up the look when the light's out, but burn a normal amber color (it's tough to photograph light bulbs; they look completely normal in the dark. Of course, I got them off eBay):