You don't wanna use forward firing leds in the headlamp parking lights or the corners. You would wanna use a 360 in the headlight and probably a flank or 360 in the corners.

I ran those 2 watt badboys in my license plate and it was awesome. That's the only place I could see those being useful.

Here's an awful picture of them:



This is the effect of forward firing 194's in the headlamp. It just looks like a dot more or less. A 360 will fill out the housing much better for uniform brightness(like in the turn signals).

 

^That. I was lazy and just answered the immediate question. lol. Always feel like I'm correcting all the time and it seems rude so I'm trying not to go out of my way to do that as much.

 

I feel the same sometimes especially since I'm not on here that often anymore. Probably needs to be compiled into some sort of sticky for advanced led light bulb knowledge.

 

Yo Greg please link me to the site you got your plate LEDs, I can't find anything bright enough and you are definitely right about the 360 vs forward firing LEDs. It looks so much better, I just figured the higher the watts the better it would look, clearly that's wrong lol

 

Yeah, my 2w forward bulb have a concentrated light, but I still think they look decent. Too bad they can't mount a couple LEDs on the side for filler.

I remoted into my home PC this morning and couldn't find the pics. They may be on my camera. Will try and look again for them tonight.

 

Yes man fillers on the side would have completed the look

 

They work better than the HID reverse lights because they don't need to charge for the maximum output. Looks real good

 

word, that is also something i didnt think about

 

Are there similar to these for the fog lights?

 

good quetsion, but im not sure any amount of LEDs crammed in the fogs could match oem output

 

Prophercy99 is right. LED in a foglight isn't as bright, especially during the day. Your best bet is the HID kit but the down fault to that is the heat output will eventually melt plastic housing. On the other hand if you have a glass housing it will work, well until you drive in rain or through a drive tru, it might crack from the excessive heat and water.

 

Ordered these two days ago. They were here when I got home from work today. HUGE difference compared to stock halogen reverse lamps. I snapped a few before and after photos of output. If the pics are any good I'll post them up on here after pulling them off my phone.

 

Location is my backyard. There is street light style metal halide lamp roughly 150 yards from where the car is parked in the pictures. I know I need to mow the lawn but cutting and weeding an acre sucks.

Here are old stock halogens bulbs that were in the Se tails I picked up.



And here are the 18.99 Ebay R5's originally mentioned in ATL's post.


No adjustments made to either picture. Just snapped from my droidx and dropped onto photobucket.

I'm quite impressed. I have 18% tint all the way around and immediately I noticed an improvement in visibility. Kudos to the OP for mentioning these at the perfect time when I was doing some light upgrades elsewhere.

 

HID's run cooler than Halogens.



Also, LED's can be just as bright or brighter than anything, it's alla bout what kind, how it's set up, reflector style, etc, etc.

For output, there's no Plug and Play LED that will match a good halogen bulb.

HID's will glare like crazy in our fog lights, period. They look awesome but they glare.

 

And that's some impressive output change 5thgendd!!! thanks for posting dude!

 

Haha thanks man anything to help, if I had a good camera I could have taken pics for ya,
but anywho, enjoy man! My next led project will be custom LEDs in the parking lights, I'm thinking a custom circular board custom fitted in the housing.

 

I think youre talking about the light above this one though

 

Yes!!!!! something just like that but in the parking light above, you did that tuner?

 

Yup.

You might want one of these




Just cut the lens off with a dremel. 2.5" LED amber truck/trailer marker lights.

There's a ton of different styles you can get. It will be a tight squeeze with some mods to get it in there, but worth it, IMO.

The only reason I didn't put them in my marker spot is because I wanted the LED signal/marker to match and I couldn't find one that did. If you're just doing one or the other in LED though it will look great.

I liked the idea of running the half-moon shape circumference with LED's but it's time consuming, and again, colour matching wasn't working with those big 4" LED's I put in the signal spot.

 

Hmmmmmm this seems so sick. May attempt this during the winter.

 

Wow, only 16 dollars shipping to Canada.

 

doooooo iittt

 

I guess I shouldnt have made my order from china, Ive been waiting 2 weeks, they wont get here til sept 5. I hate waiting.

 

I'll be getting the R5's when I get my new tails.

 

Nice nice

 

Got my bulbs in today, jeez they are huge, lol!

 

blurry pic

 

These are the Cree Q5 7w bulbs

 

Its crazy how much more I can see when reversing everything is lit up nicely.

 

I'm glad your pictures were able to do these lights more justice than my pics did. I'm still amazed at how much better I can see in reverse now.

 

Wow thanks Tigershark that is a perfect picture!

 

A shot of mine a year ago...
Here a side by side
7 watt vs stock

 

I have some of these that are awaiting new tails

 

No HID reverse lights anymore, chris?

 

Nope. I was actually going to do a projector retro back there with HIDs but don't feel like hacking up the new tails to do so.

 

I don't blame you

 

Too pretty to hack up:



I will be hacking up the connector and wiring to use the Crees though

 

so after a months use this happened





doesnt even ligt up anymore

 

mine work fine :knocks on wood:

 

That's from the amount of heat that these create.