LED tail lights?

[abbotsmike]

apparantly 25,000 to 50,000 hours

a long life but I wonder if you can change them if they fail.... will be a joke if they fail haha

Assuming they were lit for 12 hours each and every day, they'd last for nearly 6 years! Based on a 25000 hour service life.

As long as they have been designed properly with a decent voltage regulating driver, and not just a series resistor, then there's no reason they won't last the life of the car.

EDIT: or to put it another way, if you spent 25000 hours at 60mph, you'd cover 1,500,000 miles! Yes I'm bored!

 

[fuzzy232]

Screw it might buy some of the red ones. Wonder if they post to uk

 

[Lambro6]

Cheapest I have found for the red ones: £210 + £25(Shipping)

http://www.pitlane.bg/dectane-litec-tail-lights-seat-ibiza-6l-02-02-p7493-en

 

[fuzzy232]

Cheers pal

 

[Veyron]

a long life but I wonder if you can change them if they fail.... will be a joke if they fail haha

I recently saw a 59 plate Audi A4 that was missing three of the leds on the back!

 

[kidinspace]

I recently saw a 59 plate Audi A4 that was missing three of the leds on the back!

Me too, have seen a few BMW's with the same sort of issue - not great to see on such a new car.

.G.

 

[mr_bod]

Screw it might buy some of the red ones. Wonder if they post to uk

cool, let us know what they are like if you do get some. im really tempted by the black ones.

 

[fuzzy232]

I will do. Got abit left over this month but I'm deciding whether to get my milltek first

 

[fuzzy232]

Got some from orange tuning 199 all in

 

[mr_bod]

not a bad price that really

 

[fuzzy232]

Aye can't wait got the red ones

 

[mr_bod]

excellent, should look class. How you gunna get round the fog/reverse light problem, or you just not gunna bother wiring those up?

 

[fuzzy232]

Apparently no law against position of reverse light. and I cant remember the last time I used my fog light.... then again a guy on here loomed it up so it swapped them over. I think ill do that

 

[Ibiza Dan]

It would literally take 15 minutes to swap the wires over and make a really nice job and the correct lights would then light up.

 

[fuzzy232]

Ye Im not clued up on electrical ..but I just guess I splice the fog across to the other side and vice versa for the reverse and swap bulbs over

 

[Ibiza Dan]

Just exchange the wires.
Then you will have them fully functioning, just your fog and reverse will be on the opposite sides than normal on the RHD models.

 

[fuzzy232]

Aye I'll take a look when they come. Should easily sort it

 

[Edward9th]

Waste of money IMHO

 

[fuzzy232]

each to there own I guess. I like these as they are alot different. The thing that really makes me like the red ones is that its all a nice flush red, which ive always wanted to achieve

 

[cupra.al]

Waste of money IMHO

each to there own,you could say modding cars is a waste of money too.