Chromatic Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) For your Tag lights and Reverse (backup) lights .. These lights are hard to find cause they have a weird part number.. but here are links for them on ebay with numbers. I just installed them to see how they looked and to help with light for my reverse/backup camera I installed. Much better than I anticipated. brighter LED backup lights: http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1497.l2649 2X T20 7440 7743 992 White 68 SMD Reverse Stop Brake LED Light Lamp Bulb 12V US | eBay And, tag lights: http://www.ebay.com/....-/161183353341 Took forever to get here.. But my LED Reverse Lights and Tag Lights arrived. The Reverse lights weren't the best design.. I had to dissassemble them and pull all the pins and resolder them.. as when I plugged them in they would only work when you "jiggled them".. and with a light in a moving car that's not gonna fly lol. Wasn't a big deal though, took maybe 3-4 minutes .. after the solder fix they are great! The tag lights just plugged right in no issues. I always try to take at least one or two pictures for the heck of it if anyone is interested in these lights (hey there are only a few dollars).. Pictures don't do it justice, especially on lights.. but they look much "cooler" something I didn't really expect .. but they are 10 times brighter. Here's a picture where I left the Driver side reverse light in with the normal OEM bulb. You can tell how much different the color/shades of the lights are. *The Tag LED's are in of course in this picture as well. And one final shot of them all in.. Again, they are much brighter than the old bulbs,.. I highly recommend installing these bulbs even if you aren't putting in a Reverse Camera. Just in case you are wondering.. The tag lights take 2-3 minutes (remove tag) -- use screw driver to push in clip on right side (on my car) and the whole thing comes down.. pull bulb, put new bulb in.. done. For the reverse lights, they are to the inside of the blinker bulbs. Easiest way to do this is to pop the hatch.. and look on each side.. you'll see 3 plastic pop off round "covers" of bolts. Pop those 3 off on left side, then 3 on right side. Use 10mm socket.. remove bolts,.. and remove the taillights/brakelight housings. Then you can easily reach in and pull the reverse lights out and put new ones in. I say this because I've read some people who posted their "how-to's" on this process.. and they spent like 6 hours and removed their bumpers! WOW! So I don't want anyone turning a 20-30min job into a monster job hehe. Edited January 31, 2014 by Chromatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIXXERUK Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Does not ship to United Kingdom look good though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatic Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 Does not ship to United Kingdom look good though Yuck! -- Well if anyone wants these lights.. I'll be happy to buy them and ship them personally to you.. They are so inexpensive it's not a real risk on my part. Just let me know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 They look great, loads brighter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs2000 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 If you take a look at my for sale thread in my signature on the first post I link two some led bulbs for the reverse and fog lights that are led and do ship to the UK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatic Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 If you take a look at my for sale thread in my signature on the first post I link two some led bulbs for the reverse and fog lights that are led and do ship to the UK Be careful with the Ebay LED's.. I had to RE-Solder 2 of the 4 LED's before they would actually WORK in the connectors due to poor quality control/manufacturing.. Most people would just throw it away and say it didn't work.. AND one of the Tag lights a single sqaure LED patch started flickering on and off.. nothign I could do here except physically remove that square LED (lowering the light output).. I contacted the seller and it's obvious he is very Non English.. had trouble communicating with him about a simple replacement bulb. He kept wanting to give me a full refund and I had to INSIST to just send me a single replacement bulb and not refund me.. He finally understood and it's on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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