LED taillights, Choose a style Options

[smrz914]

LED taillights!

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This is a project I started over 2 years ago, and want to get some made as an upgrade to other members’ cars. I’m working on costs so don’t ask. I want to see what style people would like.

All styles require you to make some alterations to the housing. Style A and B require fairly extensive modifications to the housing (cutting out terminaland will require a new connector. The cost would be higher for style A since there are more LEDs and more soldering time. But the advantage of A is that the light from the LEDs will fill the whole back of the lens. Style C will need the least modification to the housing. You will need to add connectors to the wires that are already in the housing to connect to the circuit board. You will also need to shave off a little from the screw “towers” so the lens will get back to the right position.

The squares on the left are LEDs, the mumbo jumbo in the middle is the circuit and the circles on the left are The LEDs for the reverse lights

I have some pics on the Upgrades section on my site (link to site below).

[lapuwali]

On Paul's setup: I'd think one would want the brake lights to be considerably brighter than the taillights, so fewer tail LEDs and/or more brake LEDs seems a useful thing.

As for LED "bulbs" in general, this place: Super Bright LEDs sells ready made automototive bulb assemblies using LEDs. Four 24 LED bulbs for the tail ($13 ea), plus two 30 LED bulbs for the brakes ($15 ea), plus two 12 LED white bulbs for the reversing lights ($7 ea), and for $100 you have all LED tail lights w/o hacking up the OEM housing in any way.

They also have amber in case you have Euro lenses, and they sell a solid-state flasher unit that will flash the LED turn signal bulbs (the stock resistance flasher won't work). The solid state flasher is also available at most FLAPS (and will also work with filament bulbs).