red x.

 

looks good it kinda makes the rest of the housing look empty. I wonder how much light they would actually produce at night...

 

Works for me. Do you have any shots in total darkness to compare the brightness of them LED's to stock bulbs? It also looks a little uneven but I'm sure that can be adjusted.

 

yea i will take another one tonight when its dark

its dual intensity so that's just the tail lights...i haven't taken pictrure of the brake lights yet

alignment ...isn't really much i can do...i didn have to hack up the taillights at all...i slipped them in so i just adjusted them as much as i could

 

can you fill in more of the taillight? kinda looks empty

 

yes u could there is 14 LEDs now u can add another 14 LEDs but then the way i did it it would make it a lil hard to get the wiring thru the harness..cuz i slipped it thru the harness cuz i didn want to cut any holes or cut away at the taillight housing itself or open it up at all

if i could have found a cheap set of taillights that i can hack away with then i would do it w/ as many leds as i can fit.

 

looks good! can't wait to see the night pics.

 

Where can I find that type of bulb?

JQ.

 

post a DIY

 

i was waiting for someone to do this, post up some more info on the bulbs, im going to have an extra set of tail lights so ill give it a try on those, but dont know much about LEDs.

 

oh man looks wikid! tell us how u did it!

 

DIY will be posted when i do the passenger side Taillights

for this DIY u dun need to do any cutting of the taillights at all

but if u really wanna try to get it to have more LED strips then go for it...but yea i'll give more inside scoop later on ;-) this is my little secret for now

 

awesome bro

 

Is it me or does the regular tail lights look brighter?

I think it should look brighter in person.

 

UA5-TL: we should meet up man, I'd love to check out your LED tails in person!

 

hope i'm not bursting your secret here, but did you use something like this?

i've been interested in swapping the stock bulbs with these, except i'm not entirely sure if the angle and brightness is great enough to achieve the same effect.

 

nono i did not use those "bulb" type LEDs...these are STRIP of 7 LEDS and they are bigger than the LEDs on 1156 "led type" bulbs

looks kinda like

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| O O O O O O O |
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ohhh... i see.

hmm, how do you suppose those bulb type LEDs would look?

 

UA-5 Post more pics of your rims!! I remeber last time you were supposed to post up more,

Very nice LED lights dude!!! very original!!

 

they're already on the car

i have them set up like this

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| O O O O O O O | |O O O O O O O |
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I can't wait for the DYI on this...

 

so we're all just waiitng for the DYI on this right???

 

its DIY...not DYI
cuz it stands for DO IT YOURSELF
not DO YOURSELF IT....which sounds kinda funny hhahaha

yea soon soon..no worries within a few days

 

^^ One question thou mate, how come you didnt put more of those LED strips in ?? i mean i see that there is still some more space left on the bottom .

 

i will try that on the passenger side but i just wanted to see how it looked and if it will fit
plus it was kinda hard to PUSH the whole thing thru...but just only a lil effort but i will try getting another one in there just to see cuz then it will look like BMW haha

 

No no, I think you misunderstood me. I meant simply replacing the stock bulbs with the 15LED bulbs... wonder how that would look.

 

My friend installed a 15LED bulb on his car and they are very weak and not as bright
its better using a strip rather than a bulb...

 

i see, thanks for the information. you just saved me all the $ to try the bulb out!

 

yea i wouldn't have gone thru the trouble of doing this if the 15LED bulb would do the same

 

looks good....how much was it though? I might be interested in knowing how to do this!

 

its about $40 each so i'm just trying to get 4 strips of LEDs on each taillight and still working on the driver one rite now. its about $160 and ALOT OF TIME

 

any updates on the tail lights? did u finish it up??

 

haven't had anytime guy....and i gotta fix the other ones still so argh...its taking along time

 

any update with these.......I have LED bulbs as my rear turn signal and would love to have LED taillights. I was thinking, wouldnt it be easier to take the taillight apart and place the strips of leds in?

 

way to bump the thread haha.

btw, im interested in how those bulbs look in the tails, mind posting a pic or two with them on? also are those the same bulbs from autolumination.com ?

 

yea I am sitting at work and that mod popped in my mind so I thought I would do a lil search. but I will try and get some pics of my turnsignals tomorrow and post them up, and I think that is the site I got them from....I will post in a lil cus I know I mentioned them on here before

 

here is the thread where I put in the info https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110556 and the turn signals are nice and bright in all angles

 

Finals come to an end thursday
i will be working on them again probably the week after so pics of how i'm doing them will be posted up soon

In regard to why i didn want to open up the taillights is that
#1: i didn want to have condenstation in them
#2: what if i screw up the lense.
#3: they pop in like bulbs...jsut getting them straight is the hard part.

 

I see where you are coming from. I was browsing thru ebay and considered gettin an extra set of taillights and experimenting on those. Dunno if you have free time maybe in a few weeks we can set something up, wont mind sending you a set and some extra $$$ to have you try it out or even set-up the LEDs the way you want.