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Old Dec 5, 2011 | 03:22 AM
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Hi All,

I was thinking about changing my regular bulbs in my tail lights and rear brake light on the vert. I am not really keen on the whole rear LED replacement sets. I have the stainless louvers set up and don't think the entire LED replacement set would look that good on mine. Anyone have any recommendations?

I looked up the bulbs and they are 3057's in all 5 lights, and it looks like the 3157 LED replaces them. I see they have Super Red and Super White. Is either one better? If you replace these, does it cause the turn signals to hyper flash?

Just looking for some advice, here is what the rear looks like now.

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Old Dec 5, 2011 | 09:48 AM
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Talk to JW Motoring or TheRadioFlyer here on the forum. They can answer your questions about the LEDs. I would think that if you went with an LED bulb, chances are you would experience the hyperflash issue.
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Old Dec 5, 2011 | 09:54 AM
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Well built L.e.d's will have resistors built in so no hyper flashing. And Make sure you match your lens color, so buy red L.e.d's

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