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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 11:50 AM
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I am looking too up grade my taillights too LEDs and any info to help my decision would help thanks
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 04:21 PM
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you'll need to change your flasher as well, because the LEDs don't pull as much current to flash.
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Originally Posted by 21steve
I am looking too up grade my taillights too LEDs and any info to help my decision would help thanks

If you are looking to just swap out the bulbs- I'd highly recommend these guys-

https://www.superbrightleds.com/

Good quality stuff- a lot of the other stuff out there is a crap shoot.

As far as replacing the old mechanical style flasher that doesn't know what to do with the much more efficient LEDs as "righthand drive" pointed out-

Make SURE you get the right one- they have a polarity on them- whereas the old ones(mechanical) do not-

OR you can get the lower one - that has a ground wire- That will work regardless which side is power or load.








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I fitted these

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F132927349659

they look fresh, have stainless bezels and are made by United Pacific in the USA so should last a very long time.

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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dazaa Rafae Aman
I fitted these

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F132927349659

they look fresh, have stainless bezels and are made by United Pacific in the USA so should last a very long time.
do this kit come with the bracket to install them to and what you think about just having two all red lights on each side and putting the reverse light on the license plate bracket
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I replaced my rear taillight bulbs with these LEDs from Philips. They are much brighter than stock, and even brighter than SuperbrightLEDs brand. (I have some of each). I replaced only the rears, so the stock flasher works OK. If you replace the fronts also, you will have to replace the flasher as suggested.





BTW.......Get the red bulbs to shine through the red taillight lenses.....that's how they're designed to work. The white one are designed to shine through white lenses (back-up lights).

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No brackets needed, they bolt right on like the old lenses using the same screws. I think the white back up lights look much nicer than all red and don't require any modification to the wiring.
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You can also use a resistor on the turn signals. I'll have to look up the brand of led's I put on mine, but they came with an inline resistor and work just fine with my stock flasher. The only thing is the resistors get really hot, which I did NOT like. What I did was take some zip ties and hang them from the frame underneath. I can't see any chance of them getting anything but the frame warm... when i was hooking them up to see how they would work, the resistor burnt my hand though. If I were to do it over I'd get the flasher upgrade.

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