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Interior lighting help 2011 Mk3 Focus

Blakos
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Hey Everyone, 

First post on the forum so hoping I’m in the right place! 

I got a query and could do with some help regarding lighting. 

I had had recently purchased a 2011 mk3 Ford Focus Titanium. First easy job I wanted to do was upgrade all the interior lights. 

So I bought myself some 501 bulbs, and when I went to fit them, the dome light has a black motherboard type looking thing over, so I’m not sure if it uses bulbs or LED strips. 

When I went to change the footwell bulbs, same thing.. was an LED strip not a bulb. 

Does anyone know if I can upgrade these in any way? Or am I just stuck with the factory lighting. 

Even though these are LED.. I’m assuming all headlight and tail lights bulbs could be changed as any other car?

Thanks Anyone 

-Blake 

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    On 6/27/2019 at 5:29 PM, Blakos said:

    Hey Everyone, 

    First post on the forum so hoping I’m in the right place! 

    I got a query and could do with some help regarding lighting. 

    I had had recently purchased a 2011 mk3 Ford Focus Titanium. First easy job I wanted to do was upgrade all the interior lights. 

    So I bought myself some 501 bulbs, and when I went to fit them, the dome light has a black motherboard type looking thing over, so I’m not sure if it uses bulbs or LED strips. 

    When I went to change the footwell bulbs, same thing.. was an LED strip not a bulb. 

    Does anyone know if I can upgrade these in any way? Or am I just stuck with the factory lighting. 

    Even though these are LED.. I’m assuming all headlight and tail lights bulbs could be changed as any other car?

    Thanks Anyone 

    -Blake 

    I suspect the "bulbs" are actually SMD i.e. soldered to a circuitboard, typically the only way to replace them is to desolder the existing SMDs and solder the new ones on.

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