I'd have to seen them "lit up" on a vehicle first before I could give an honest opinion....

 

 

I may be misaking here, but I think you need some special "somthing" to use LED turn signal bulbs. I bough some led bulbs for my front turn signal bulbs... When I turned on my turn signal, it would flash real fast... instead of... tic tick....tick tick.....tick tick... It would go tick tick tick itick tick... blinked real fast.
http://www.autolumination.com/ Has a lot of bulbs... different colors and LEDs

 

Hey, I resent that remark about the lowrider toyota! I sold mine last spring to buy my 05 FX4. I had LED replacement bulbs in the stock housings in it, and I got a lot of compliments on how clean it looked. Definately not ricey, since the only time you notice them is when you hit the brakes and they light instantly with that clear, bright LED lighting. It adds a touch of class to the truck for not a lot of dough. I'm with ram, too, I would like to see them in the stock housing to see how they look.

I might just buy a set and see how they look in my truck. I want some sort of LED lighting on the back to match my Line of Fire and the mirror mounted turn signal indicators. I have my stock housings smoked on my black truck for a clean look, and I don't want to ruin that with some god-aweful chrome-spacey-euro crap tails like all of the ricers run.

to answer khendrix's question, you need to change the resistance of the LED bulb in order for the blinkers to work properly. Since the LED are very high resistance (low current) they make the flasher blink very fast. I tried adding some LED replacement bulbs to my truck with an extra resistor in parallel to decrease the resistance (I think I used a 1 or a 5 ohm resistor, dont remember now), and the blinkers worked like they were supposed to. The problem I ran into was that resistors dissipate electrical power by giving off heat, and the low-ohm resistors that are needed to make the blinkers work properly give off a LOT of heat, hence they burn everything they come it contact with. Maybe there is a company that makes replacement flashers that will work with the higher resistive load?

BTW, does anyone know off-hand what taillight bulbs our truck take?

 

Usually you need a resistor

 

yeah if you use LEDs for turn signals then you are going to have to put a resistor in the line somewhere or buy what autoilluminations is selling. I bought 2 from them for my LEds and they work fine.. I dont mind the altezza look. I have a set of altezzas and I have swapped out all of my normal halogen bulbs with LEDS...

 

"BTW, does anyone know off-hand what taillight bulbs our truck take?"



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I e-mailed Stylin concepts for pictures or some sort of image. Obviously being a holiday, it might take a few days.

 

Yes it is 3157

 

Your resistors would overheat cause they weren't rated high enough wattage. You could try the 10W rated resistors which will disipate more heat rather than the generic electronic circuit rated ones. Most electronics shops have them.

 

hmmm.... smells like rice burning....

 

Uncle Ben's.

 

Got Rice?

 

more pictures

http://spiderlite.com/gallery.html

 

It not THAT bad. Dont certain cars have something like this stock? I could swear Ive seen Infinitys or something with similar lights from the factory.

Later,

Luis S

 

I think they look okay. I'd rather have stock looking housings with LEDs already in them though.