Using LED replacements in passenger cars

I find that just having the LED strips pointing down I don't need the reflectors.  I left the little ones you see because they weren't doing any harm.

John, this is a mystery to me: In my passenger cars, one socket ( call it #2) has one feed that goes to a connector behind socket #1, which shows ground conductivity. Socket #1 has that aforementioned connection point and a second connector going to the roller.  With incandescent bulbs, everything is fine, but changing to LEDs is an issue. By the way, I have no idea how socket#2 works since I don’t see a hot wire going to it. ???

Hard to make any judgments without being able to see it.  Obviously, if the lamps light, there is power to the socket.

I saw your other thread on the same topic, the two sockets are in series, which is why the LED's won't work.  You can have LED's in series, but in this case, the outside barrel of the bulb goes to the end contact, so the two LED's are not wired for correct polarity.

Is there a way for me to reroute any of the wires effectively wiring the 2 sockets in parallel?

Sure, wire both bottom contacts together to the pickup rollers and wire the two socket sides to the frame.

Thanks John.

I have re wired over 20 passenger cars with John’s strip lighting kits.  The results are more realistic than I would have imagined.  

for these cars i'd use these easier to install and cheeper