As you can see by these pictures, it's really not too bright. It just lights up the entire cabin very nicely. One issue that I ran into is that you need to add a ballast resistor if you want to also change out the tailgate light. If you change both the dome and tailgate to LED without the resistor, neither light will illuminate. I have not installed that yet so in these pictures, you can see the difference between the dim, "stock", incandescent bulb in the tailgate, and my modified LED array installed in the ceiling.