Tail light suggestions?
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and ____Z____ if im gonna pay 150 for your LTs, I would rather pay for those ones that would be professionally done and paint guaranteed lol. But thanks anyways, if you go down in price about 50 maybe. Also the reason I cant see myself buying the ebay LEDs is the thing you said bout having a single LED out causing the whole thing to look bad.
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eh, I dunno.. this is sort of like painting over your receptacles in your home. I would rather them accent than try to blend in.
That being said though, you can have LED failures, and cheap LEDS are more likely to fail due to faulty solder work or crappy PCB traces/modules related to voltage than anything else. As such, a cheap made in china set of LED tails may have a higher failure rate over a period of time than doing it yourself, or using some of those LED replacement bulbs (which don't offer as high a quality of light still over incandescent really..)
your best bet for LED is a custom job on a stock housing imo. It's tedious and expensive, and requires a lot of solder work, but can be worth it in the end.
you can also buy those LED "strips" and in-lay them inside the housing, just cut the back of the housing open so you can get in there, then silicone it back together and make sure it's sealed so you don't get water inside. You can buy flexible LED strips that are bright and functional for pennies compared to doing individual LEDs. And it's like christmas lights basically.. only gotta solder the ends you cut off.
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Was referring to how the guy mentioned painting the top part of the taillight body colored to blend it in.
Lots of charger guys do that, see the picture. The taillights go all the way up and around, but they're painted over to make it look like that's part of the body instead and blend them in.
Lots of charger guys do that, see the picture. The taillights go all the way up and around, but they're painted over to make it look like that's part of the body instead and blend them in.
#70
Was referring to how the guy mentioned painting the top part of the taillight body colored to blend it in.
Lots of charger guys do that, see the picture. The taillights go all the way up and around, but they're painted over to make it look like that's part of the body instead and blend them in.
Lots of charger guys do that, see the picture. The taillights go all the way up and around, but they're painted over to make it look like that's part of the body instead and blend them in.