Wagon Tail Lights

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Wagon Tail Lights

Postby vegaman04 » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:32 pm

Since i ever got the car, four years ago, ive wanted to do l.e.d. tail lights and seeing as almost every newer car has them, has anyone attemped to do the conversion.
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Postby Buscop » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:54 pm

This would be an interesting project..keep us tuned in. :D
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Postby Monza Madness » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:16 pm

j.C.WHITNEY has two styles of led arays, (one is a spring loaded star that opens up once the base is installed in the tail light housing. that replaces the original incandescent bulbs, the only problem they state, is you may have to change flashers.
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Postby Monza Madness » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:26 pm

They are 3 arm and 5 arm arays, get this, there called spiderlite.
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Postby v8astregt » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:02 am

Don't get the simple replacements that aren't the web deal. I got standard LED bulbs and they did nothing. They were actually worse, since the taillights on the S10 that had them rely on the bulb using the reflector of the lense (like most vehicles). This resulted in just a single bright dot in the center of my taillight. So now I'm back to standard bulbs. It'd be cool if you can find a board to fill up the entire surface area of the light.
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Postby Richardbailey » Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:16 am

v8astregt wrote:Don't get the simple replacements that aren't the web deal. I got standard LED bulbs and they did nothing. They were actually worse, since the taillights on the S10 that had them rely on the bulb using the reflector of the lense (like most vehicles). This resulted leds in just a single bright dot in the center of my taillight. So now I'm back to standard bulbs. It'd be cool if you can find a board to fill up the entire surface area of the light.

yes today led lights are best. There rates are getting lower and quality is nice. We must use them to save energy
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Re: Wagon Tail Lights

Postby megavega » Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:36 am

These guys are right, I used the flat style first and they are worse then stock. I then went to this style and holy moly :shock: they are bright. I also found out they work even better if you paint the factory reflector inside the fake chrome paint, and then install this bulb and your lens, works pretty awesome, lights up the whole lens now. As someone said you still need to utilize your factory reflector unless you make a board of leds just for your housing.
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