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LED Door Lights for Saab

SAAB branded LED door lightSAAB branded LED door light

Melvin Könings from Holland yesterday sent us an interesting Saab story. He has upgraded his Saab 9-3X Sportcombi and he is now very happy with effect on his favorite car.

It is a branded LED light for doors, or as they call them “Led Car Door Logo Laser Projector Light“. These decorative lights allows for a full vibrant SAAB logo to be projected showcasing your vehicle’s make to the world.

Melvin ordered these lights online in China. That was quite simple by picking the “Ghost Shadow LED Projector for Saab 9-3, 5th generation” at AliExpress for just 17 dollars per pair. He ordered them mid November 2017, it took 14 days for the package to arrive in The Netherlands.

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You could get these lights even a bit cheaper, but these lights (“5th generation”) seem to have a better quality. Installation was really simple, as his Saab doors already had lights in the bottom.

Door Lights Saab 9-3X
The image will display on the ground when you open the car door, and will turn off when you close it.

So it’s a fairly simple job of removing the door panel (2 minutes), creating space by cutting out a small portion of the insulation and then you drill a hole in the bottom of the plastic door panel (the matching drill head that AliExpress delivers does not fit, you need a larger one). After that it’s just connecting the wires and reinstall the door panel. An experienced mechanic (like his Saab specialist Jeroen Vermeulen from Saab De Linge ) can fix your two front doors within 45 minutes easily. Lastly, here’s what it looks like when it ends in mounting:

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He added: “These lights put a smile on my face every time it’s dark and I open my car! A must have for the real Saab enthusiast!”

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

1 Comment

  • This is all very confusing!
    “He ordered them mid November 2017, it took 14 days for the package to arrive in The Netherlands.”
    Is it 2017 now? Have I slept for a year?! :))

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