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awesome led tail light upgrade!
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Instructor
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From: Vancouver Wa
awesome led tail light upgrade!
I just converted to led tail lights from six state distributors, heavy duty brand, these are red leds that go into the socket with a little modification with a dremmel, no ricer look you can't see the leds, tail lights are much brighter and are bright red as opposed to orange, red leds behind red lense equal bright red light, clear bulb behind red lense equals dimmer orangish light, do the comparison, I did away with the backup lights as I think they look like shi.... four red lenses with leds look really good and you can be SEEN, tried another brand and they sucked the six states are they way to go, the brake lights with led and bulbs are pretty much same intensity with a major color diff, but tail lights are much brighter with led, be prepared to widen out upper part of the socket though, the difference is impressive, will need to put in a no load flasher.
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From: Vancouver Wa
Pics are a pain in the ***, and won't do this topic justice as I am done with the conversion and am not putting the old bulbs back in. The red leds are 12 dollars each and can be found at six states distributors, if you don't have one near by could probably find them online, the conversion is well worth it but you will have to dremmel the sockets so that the leds can go down far enough to turn and lock in, you will want the heavy duty brand with 13 leds. Buy one and compare to stock bulbs difference is awesome
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Pics are a pain in the ***, and won't do this topic justice as I am done with the conversion and am not putting the old bulbs back in. The red leds are 12 dollars each and can be found at six states distributors, if you don't have one near by could probably find them online, the conversion is well worth it but you will have to dremmel the sockets so that the leds can go down far enough to turn and lock in, you will want the heavy duty brand with 13 leds. Buy one and compare to stock bulbs difference is awesome
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St. Jude Donor '12
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all these leds are nice but can you add some info please...... I tried to buy some leds and they didnt look anything like these do.... so all help would be appreciated
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also, redson, if you are planning on doing this, keep in mind that I used WHITE SMD LED's for my dash, the dash background is blue apparently, I always though it was green, (yellow old bulbs + blue background = green light), the light blue display was a surprise to me, but I still like it, if you want the stock color, you might try a couple yellow bulbs and see how that looks
Miles