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CPT, any idea if those Amazon Angel eyes are 3 watt or 5 watt units? Doesn't say in the ad. I see on eBay that vendors are offering both wattages, and also recall your comment on perhaps you'd like to tone down the brightness. Thanks.
I have no idea to be honest. I will probably leave the brightness alone as the LED brake light seems to shine through fine.
Originally Posted by taylor34
Unfortunately those are just as long of a wait as the ebay ones, lol. Having to wait over a month seems a little ridiculous for something that should be somewhat common. So since 90mm won't work, 80mm sounds like it should then. Then I could order something like these that will get here this week:
I just got my 85mm ones in finally and...they don't fit, lol. In fact I have two separate batches and none of them fit. If I took off the cover, they might fit. This seems weird because everyone else's fit.
I just got my 85mm ones in finally and...they don't fit, lol. In fact I have two separate batches and none of them fit. If I took off the cover, they might fit. This seems weird because everyone else's fit.
Well, that sucks!!!
Have you measured the OD of the halos you have? I have some spare sets of the 85mm halos I used, I will dig them out and measure their OD tomorrow.
Have you measured the OD of the halos you have? I have some spare sets of the 85mm halos I used, I will dig them out and measure their OD tomorrow.
With the cover they're like 87mm. I've figured out a work around though, I broke off part of the cover where it touched the screw holes in the housing and now it fits. I should be good to go now.
I did take apart the license plate light where everyone wires it, are people just using one of those blue wire 'taps' and then putting the other four wires in the other side of the tap? Or are they completely cutting the wire and then tying them all together?
With the cover they're like 87mm. I've figured out a work around though, I broke off part of the cover where it touched the screw holes in the housing and now it fits. I should be good to go now.
I did take apart the license plate light where everyone wires it, are people just using one of those blue wire 'taps' and then putting the other four wires in the other side of the tap? Or are they completely cutting the wire and then tying them all together?
I cut and permanently spliced the wires for all 4 halos at the license plate light, and closer to the actual halos I used male/female bullet connectors so that I could still remove the tail lights.
For what it's worth I had to relieve the plastic covers in the three areas where the screw were as well. A sanding drum on the dremel worked perfectly.
Being able to actually remove the pots is very important as 7t2 points out
I was already knee deep in the rear harness before this change so I went weatherpack and changed the bulb holders to center contact only style
I just finished adding the LED halos to my tail lights and I love them!
The light on the left is an LED bulb that I already installed, so it is already significantly brighter than stock. I think I will try to add a spacer to the inner lights to separate the halo ring and the reverse light and get more definition.
I had to remove the plastic cover to make it fit under the inner lenses, so I just removed them for all four. I don't expect the LED halos to last very long based on how much I paid for them, but now it will be fairly easy to put higher quality ones in when I need.
Thanks all who posted and helped, especially 7t2!
Last edited by D_Williams; 03-18-2018 at 11:04 AM.
For what it's worth I had to relieve the plastic covers in the three areas where the screw were as well. A sanding drum on the dremel worked perfectly.
Being able to actually remove the pots is very important as 7t2 points out
I was already knee deep in the rear harness before this change so I went weatherpack and changed the bulb holders to center contact only style
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How do you get that inside part out like that? Are there nuts on the backside that allow it to come out? If I could remove that it would make this thing a lot easier.
Those 2 studs you see in the picture go through the body and there are nuts on the inside, I believe one on each light also has the ground wire from the harness on it.
You can see one of the holes here, they are at like 5 and 11 o'clock
For those of you who converted from two tail light + two reverse to 4 tail lights, how did you handle the housing? Like did you buy two of the housings for the tail lights to replace the reverse one? As it appears you need a different socket setup that doesn't appear to be available separately. I started to wire things up tonight when I realized that I should probably just convert to four brake lights, the halo going out the reverse lens just bleeds a little too much for my liking.
For those of you who converted from two tail light + two reverse to 4 tail lights, how did you handle the housing? Like did you buy two of the housings for the tail lights to replace the reverse one? As it appears you need a different socket setup that doesn't appear to be available separately. I started to wire things up tonight when I realized that I should probably just convert to four brake lights, the halo going out the reverse lens just bleeds a little too much for my liking.
When I converted to 4 tail lights, I bought 2 of the proper housings and lenses. You could just change the existing wires for your reverse lights to work as just brake and turn signal lights and then you only have to buy the lenses......and I have no idea if tail light lenses fit on reverse housings. The only thing to remember is that you would have different bulbs in the housings; 1157 in the tail/brakes lights and 1156 in the former reverse lights.
You could also just swap sockets in your housing like Mooser has done. A quick google search shows you can buy just the sockets from multiple sources, this is the first one I found: https://www.customled.com/products/a...bayonet-socket
Well I started removing the reverse housings tonight to modify with a different socket when the post snapped off from rust, lol. So I guess I'm replacing the housings. They kind of need it anyways.
Ok, so I'm making some headway here. Got all the parts in for the most part to make the 4 brake light switch, the last part is I need a led strip reverse light for the license plate. I look on Amazon and the web and all I could see were 100's of random ones that all seemed to be of questionable quality, lol. Did someone here have some luck with one brand or another that they'd recommend? The best one on amazon seems ok but kind of like the halo rings, people were worried about durability on it and having short circuit issues. Thanks
Ok, so I'm making some headway here. Got all the parts in for the most part to make the 4 brake light switch, the last part is I need a led strip reverse light for the license plate. I look on Amazon and the web and all I could see were 100's of random ones that all seemed to be of questionable quality, lol. Did someone here have some luck with one brand or another that they'd recommend? The best one on amazon seems ok but kind of like the halo rings, people were worried about durability on it and having short circuit issues. Thanks
I searched eBay to find ones that fit my criteria; I wanted them to be as unobtrusive as possible, so I tried to find ones with a short height as the first qualifier. As shown in my pics earlier in this thread, I ended up using 3 led strips that were 3/4” tall and had clear bodies. They are some generic brand, but I have had no issues with them at all, and I achieved my unobtrusive goal.
In case the earlier pics do not show up because of the photofuckit debacle:
What I've found (like the LED bulbs I used) is these come and go and what is available today may not be next month so when I did my reverse light I found something that I could make work for me and then I bought several sets so down the road if / when they die I have one on the shelf. Especially when the housing was made to fit the strips I didn't want to have to start over again just because that supplier disappeared
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What I've found (like the LED bulbs I used) is these come and go and what is available today may not be next month so when I did my reverse light I found something that I could make work for me and then I bought several sets so down the road if / when they die I have one on the shelf. Especially when the housing was made to fit the strips I didn't want to have to start over again just because that supplier disappeared
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That is a very good point, and I have done the same by buying spares of the headlights, the front and rear halos, the rear turn/brake leds, and the strips I used for the reverse lights.
02-27-2018, 09:31 AM
Having to wait over a month seems a little ridiculous for something that should be somewhat common. So since 90mm won't work, 80mm sounds like it should then. Then I could order something like these that will get here this week:
