thinking back to basic electronics classes
I'm pretty sure adding load resistors to trick the "lamp failure sensor" and warning light on dash negates the benefit of leds drawing less. The resistors basically bump up the draw back to traditional bulb draw (hence the stupid heat the end up producing)
if anyone thinks otherwise we'd love to hear it, but i think that's the case.
So now, short of pulling the light out of the dash, anybody have any better ideas? looking at the electrical pages of the BGB online, i think the "lamp failure sensor(relay)" is actually behind the dash instrument cluster. which makes it not any easier than pulling the light since you have to get back there anyways.
If we can alter the sensor relay that would be an option, but that's beyond my scope.
i'll try to get photos up. the brightness i think isn't that different, but the richness of the red colour is deeper/nicer and the instant on and off is a bit more noticeable. i really wanted to just create less draw on the system.