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Old 07-20-12, 11:35 PM
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anyone ever replaced the bulbs with l.e.d's? the driving light bulbs, not the turn signal, brake light, or reverse. question is, does it make a difference? does it look brighter than oem? anyone have a before and after? thanks cl.
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anyone? bump.
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how about on any sc tail light?
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There should be something here for you. http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...sp=%2F1157.htm
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I have but the bulbs I used weren't very bright so they still pretty much look the same. I also changed my brake lights and they seem to be a bit brighter.
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In My Opinion: Just leave the Everything like that stock.
Old 07-21-12, 05:00 PM
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I made a thread on this before too, Kohinoor replied with his 97 tails with LED strips and boards. If it's done, its not easy. You need to know how to splice all these wires to make it work and know soldering and such.
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I've had a set of the 93, 95, and 00+ taillights and the only thing I would recommend replacing with an LED bulb is the reverse lights and the city lights.

From my experience using LED's for turn signals will cause them to hyperblink. On my 93's, putting LED bulbs in my brake lights caused them not to work when I had the headlights on.
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I switched all of mine out to LED's, bought them from superbrightleds. The turn signals do hyperblink, I'm looking to upgrading to a digital flasher like KingPhilip did, so they don't do that.
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IMO, it's not worth it to replace the park lights into LEDs since it has a double diffuser, it's not gonna make a difference and it would be spotty. However, I'd recommend doing the brake lights, turn signals and reverse lights since it only have a single diffuser. It'd look brighter for the reverse since its transparent, it'll also be brighter for the brake lights, and the signal lights will be snappier when blinking. Browse through my old threads so you can see the difference of a regular filament bulbs and LED for the signal lights.
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Only bulbs I would suggest changing out that look good are the front parking light to a 6k LED. And the reverse bulbs to white LEDs. Those both actually look good and are brighter.
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