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About a year ago I had to replace 1 crakced OEM tailight and for as much as I was going to pay for 1 OEM replacement, I bought the LED tailights and installed them myself (needed to solder in a set of resistors to prevent hyper flash).
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I just bought a set on ebay for a good price so I will find out what all this 'flashing' talk is about I guess whenever I get around to putting it on my to do list and removing one of the spouses 'to do's'.
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I'm thinking of making one of those up using an old housing I have here lying around.
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About a year ago I had to replace 1 crakced OEM tailight and for as much as I was going to pay for 1 OEM replacement, I bought the LED tailights and installed them myself (needed to solder in a set of resistors to prevent hyper flash).
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I just bought a set on ebay for a good price so I will find out what all this 'flashing' talk is about I guess whenever I get around to putting it on my to do list and removing one of the spouses 'to do's'.
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About a year ago I had to replace 1 crakced OEM tailight and for as much as I was going to pay for 1 OEM replacement, I bought the LED tailights and installed them myself (needed to solder in a set of resistors to prevent hyper flash).
I can't tell you how awesome they look and how much they improve the tail of the 996. Total positive upgrade over the OEM tailights and I LOVE them. It's hard to explain but without making them look like a tricked out honda civic (believe me I hate those and all the other tricked out Fast and Furious cars) they drasticlly improve the look of the rear - making them look modern.
I will just say the pics and the video do not show how great they look at night.
Rear LED
Uggh, pull those POS off and send them to me so I can burn them.
You can send them to:
123 Any St.
Temecula Ca.
92592
I will expect them in 10 business days.
I would actually like to see someone make a clear and smoked housing for these with regular halogen bulbs. Just having the tail lights that are someone clearer (I think they call it crystal lights that became in fashion > 2002) would be great.
Thanks fellas, will post the yellow blinking video sometime this week. I got them from these guys -
LED tail lights
. I don't remember the tail lights being that expensive at the time but it's been about a year. They have red smoked and white smoked ones.
The RPK-038's rims are from
WheelDynamics
. I really like their new 808 series, I would have gotten those had they been out when I was looking to buy new wheels.
No I had to purchase them from an electronics store like Fry's. I did have to research and learn how to fix "hyperflash".
I am not sure. I don't remember seeing anything but they may be available.
So I ordered both the clear and smoked.
The clears came perfect.
The smoked came all broken up - I think they were former returns.
On MY Mk2 996 it will NOT work without wiring in parallel 50W 20ohm resistors.
Will post pics later this wknd
you need to buy 4 resistors.
for turn signals I bought 25w resistors
for stop light 50w resistors
you need to solder them in parallel to each of their respective wire harnesses.
i haven't tried a body fit yet - will do that next. if it sucks i'm not going to do it either.
So as long as people keep buying them and wiring in their own resistors I guess the manufacturer figures why bother. It just increases cost for them.
It's not like it's an OEM product or anything. It's pretty crudely made...
I love these but have heard that it screws up the computer system. Does the resisitor discussion help this issue??
Love the look but worried.............
I never had any issues because of the LEDs, I keep hearing about ECU this and and ECU that, electrical this eletrical that. lol if you are worried about having eletrical problems because of the LED's, I think the LEDs causing eletrical problems should be the least of your worries lol....just keeping it real...
Since I have had my car and before the LED's, let's see.. sunroof motor, both power window regulators (worn cabling), freon o-ring, starter mechanism....and this car is not my daily driver..
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I only had to solder in 1 pair of resistors 1 on each side only for the turn signals.
When I got the LED's, my flashers were blinking way too fast which is what they call "hyperflash".
Then the research I did turned up this post on 6speed.
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...-lights-6.html
You found something that fits wide body cars? If this is true, I'd like to know more - like where you bought them. Also, I'd love to see a pic on the car when you install them.
The sizing tool in that ad shows that these will fit a Carrera, a Carrera 4, Carrera 4S or turbo. The lights that fit a NB car won't fit a WB car, so something's not right. I'm guessing they won't fit a C4S or a turbo.
I just bought a set on ebay for a good price so I will find out what all this 'flashing' talk is about I guess whenever I get around to putting it on my to do list and removing one of the spouses 'to do's'.
Got all winter now anyway.
From what I have found on other forums they are called LED load equalizers and are 25W each (2 needed). There are people on ebay who will sell you a little kit for a couple of bucks or you can go to radio shack and make your own up. I find the LED third brake light is over priced for what it really is and how many LED's that are in these strips, somewhere around $90 is stupid. I'm thinking of making one of those up using an old housing I have here lying around.
