 LED taillight bulbs. Good or bad? |
 Feb 19, 2014 - 8:41 PM
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On the surface, LED taillight bulbs from eBay look good (as good as cheap ebay stuff can be that is). However in the fine print, they say that load resistors may be needed. What has your experience been?
I am looking at possibly adding some tint to my taillights and use super-bright red, amber and white LED lamps to make up the difference. -------------------- '99 Triple Black GT Convertible
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Feb 19, 2014 - 8:53 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Jan 27, '14 From Fort Wayne IN Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (50%) |
You need them so your car doesn't have hyperflash. Hyperflash is like when you have a bulb out, your car tells you by flashing that side quicker than usual. It's the way the flasher relay is designed that that happens. Newer cars do not need them depending on the model, since they have body control modules. You need either load resistors, or a led flasher relay. I'd also recommend superbrightleds.com you can enter your model and get exactly what you need. They also show both the resistors and relays you can purchase. Mine came hella quick. They also have good customer service.
Relays I figure are easier since the one is only 10$ instead of 2-3 each light, and no tools required to wire them in. That's why I went with it. -------------------- 94 Teal GT-DD 223,915 miles SOLD
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Feb 19, 2014 - 9:29 PM
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QUOTE (eMrock32 @ Feb 19, 2014 - 8:53 PM)  You need them so your car doesn't have hyperflash. Hyperflash is like when you have a bulb out, your car tells you by flashing that side quicker than usual. It's the way the flasher relay is designed that that happens. Newer cars do not need them depending on the model, since they have body control modules. You need either load resistors, or a led flasher relay. I'd also recommend superbrightleds.com you can enter your model and get exactly what you need. They also show both the resistors and relays you can purchase. Mine came hella quick. They also have good customer service. Relays I figure are easier since the one is only 10$ instead of 2-3 each light, and no tools required to wire them in. That's why I went with it. I'd like to see the result and maybe inserted in this conversion. Take pics... |
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GTMike LED taillight bulbs. Good or bad? Feb 19, 2014 - 8:41 PM
Tigawoods right are LED's Feb 19, 2014 - 10:00 PM eMrock32 Pictures do not do it justice. I never thought I... Feb 19, 2014 - 10:06 PM richee3 Do this instead.
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index... Feb 19, 2014 - 10:12 PM RoadRage I'm more interested in having something like t... Feb 19, 2014 - 10:19 PM eMrock32 You can do just about anything you want. But to an... Feb 20, 2014 - 7:36 AM The_enD Split the wire, connect the old bulb, hide it, no ... Feb 20, 2014 - 8:04 AM GTMike I checked superbrightleds.com and it looks like I ... Feb 20, 2014 - 7:12 PM eMrock32 No, not the CAN bulbs. Go one under that. I didn... Feb 20, 2014 - 7:37 PM wolfie308 I believe you only need to use the expensive CAN t... Feb 21, 2014 - 4:00 AM
eMrock32 Ah. I guess that was in my friends Camry. My celic... Feb 21, 2014 - 11:38 AM |
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