Which is brighter, LED strips of neon tubes?

The lighting will be in the grille, in the footwells and probably the parcel shelf. I keep thinking that an LED strip wont put out as much, or as solid a light than the neons. But CCFL seems to burn out a bit and be a little more touchy with inverters and all that junk.

So what should I use?

Also I don't see the point in starting a new thread, I'm planning on dyeing a set of grey seats black. What's the best type of dye to use? I want it to not fade, look patchy or go crusty. And I'd need to use like five or six bottles of that SimplySpray stuff, and I don't want to pay $120 to dye them.

SMD led are brighter, same with EL wire (EL wire is a thin flexibale neon)

here is a SMD led comparison to natural light too SMD

and there blue so white would be brighter


30 SMD led strip
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/7251/dsc00202bc.jpg (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/dsc00202bc.jpg/)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7774/dsc00204o.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/i/dsc00204o.jpg/)

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7343/dsc00205h.jpg (http://img810.imageshack.us/i/dsc00205h.jpg/)

They are the same strips i recommended for you mate