So I changed out my interior lights and tonight I noticed that my map lights have one LED of the 7 that stays lit very dimly. The only way to turn it off is to turn off the master light switch. Now I did purchase my LEDs from two sources on eBay and the batch from one seller has this "pilot light" issue.

1) is this a real concern?
2) should I get the bulbs that turn completely off?

 

its actually normal for the leds to stay lit alittle even when switch is off

 

Ya I have the same thing going on with my interior leds. They stay light slightly never was really enough to bother me and eventually you won't even know that they are on.

 

thanks for the answers, my main concern is a slight drain on battery ... slight I know

 

what light stays on? when my car is off no leds are on at all.

 

The interior map lights do. But they are very very dimly fainted light kinda like a glow stick but not as bright and when you turn them on they are bright. I think that it just has to do with the fact that they are getting some current to them and don't need as much power to make light like stock bulbs do so they glow.

 

don't know if thats normal, but there are no lights on in my car while its off.

 

The batch of bulbs that I used all had the faint glow (under the dash, map lights and thet one in the trunk. I decided to buy replacements from the other seller I bought from It may be normal, but I was not comfortable with it. It is likely the design of that particular bulb

 

Got my LEDS from www.autolumination.com & I can assure you when my map light / rear reading lights are off there is NO FAINT LIGHT LIT.

I do not see how this can be described as normal as this would slowly drain the battery.

 

what he said and thats where i got my leds from also

 

I also got my bulbs from autolumination.com. I installed all of them and have one that has the faint glow after you turn the power off in the car. I am just going to leave it as is. I hardy think this one LED will drain the battery!

 

Just installed mine from V-leds and pretty much all stay dimly lit when they're supposed to be off. Hopefully, this won't be an issue going forward.

 

for me, only the map lights stay lit with a "pilot light" (only the center bulb of the 7)

 

Add me to the dimly lit group. Same problem, map lights have a slight glow when the ignition switch is on. Kinda annoying, may swap them back out to regular bulbs.

 

Just did my set of interior LED's this weekend and not all but some are lit up but just barely...13' super black S

 

I have full VLED leds in my interior and never ran into this problem. I believe it's the cheap LEDs that do this. I paid around $7 per LED.