do the leds stay on all the time the same or do they get brighter when you hit the brakes??

 

the way i have them set up there they stay on all the time while the car si on,they are set up as running lights and do not get brighter when braking...just running lights so at night you have 4 running lights lights on across the back and the regular brkae lights only light brighter when braking.

 

you need to wire up a little circuit of you want the park and brake lights to work. Its pretty simple

 

i didnt have time to read the whole thread but where do you get those led strips?? cuz the only ones i ever see cannot bend sideways like that on does

 

what kind of silcone are you guys using???

 

Heres mine. Took me about 2 hrs, removing the sealant was the worst, until i started using a hairdryer and it was smooth sailing.

btw I just seal it back up with clear gutter sealant for outdoor waterproof use.

 

cant see the pics

pretty much any kind... i used some clear **** from autozone.

 

Will be doing this Tuesday night/Wednesday during the day. I'm doing a lil more than what the op did, will post pics when complete.

 

Also did the outters, here's a closer look




Also did the outters, here's a closer look

 

skunk, you could not get the inners all around?

 

I like it! Looks more uniform that way. Do those replace your running lights, and then the bulb is just a brake light? or does it still serve as a normal bulb the same way?

 

some1 send me a set of those gay aftermarket LED taillights and a set of stock tail lights and ill try to make some real nice OEM looking LED tails by combining the two

 

sub'd

 

sub'd been thinking aboiut doing this when i can, just been trying to find a LED that i like and maybe cut to the length i want. good job, other than i dont like the reverse ones, i want mine to wrap all the way around

 

^absolutely. i did this mod awhile ago and cut the wires since. I bought ones that were too short so i extended it by soldering in another couple LED's. Connection went bad over time and they started flickering. Plus got tired of the LED rings on the reverse and solid bulb on the tails, just not OEM looking the way they light up and the finished look. Wish they made a nice OEM looking set of tails that had LED rings

 

^^ hear ya, last thing i want to do is have to go back in there for something, it'll be a while if i do them. there is a set that they sell but last i looked it was like $350 for all 4, a little out of my range for tail lights, a lot more stuff i want i could get with that kind of $$.

 

QUESTION...

Would CCFL halos work for this project??

I like that they are brighter than LEDs..

 

I don't see why not. I think no one does it cuz leds are cheaper.

 

Ok great.. I just ordered the 2 pairs needed of CCFL rings

Just got to figure out how Im gonna wire them

 

I did mine a lil different... after i finished, I realized that the white part on the inner ones got a liiiil 2 much light, it might not look horrible here... but i really didn't like it. All 4 were so that both on the right would blink when i turn right an bla bla bla...

only pic I got the night I was fully finished...
Bad angle but I like em better than the icpw ones.. they're gonna look effin sexy when I tint em


So when I took out the middle ones to redo em, I heated up the my middle left one for 2 long an the plastic deformed so I couldn't put my reverse lense back in there so now only one light comes up when I reverse an only the outside ones are wired in(the LEDs broke onthe supaheated shell )
CCFL's might actually look pretty nice

 

hero

 

yea they're bad as shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit so now I'm mad as that they dont work AND I'm out of a reverse light and the 4 reverse bulbs I went thru lol It makes sense to stop after the first... two but I just wanted to be done an actually had it till my ex came out an scared the **** outta me

 

They got em at Autozone... in 4 dif colors

Hit up autozone an get the Glass sealant

 

this can actually be done with two l.e.d lights (per lens), a clear rod for windows blinds of all things (per lens), and a resistor(per lens). you can also wire these up so the reverse lights work with the brake lights, becoming brighter, blinking correctly, and 100% correctly.

Using my above mentioned method, you wont get bleed through on any lights, even if you go above that little lip, as the lights runs around the circle that you made rather than poting all over the place.

I would also recommend clear rtv sealant, Seals perfectly and works for the headlights too, another easy way to disassemble those lights is use the oven, the same method used for removing the headlight lenses. This is actually the next "mod" for my balt. You can also paint a circle around the inside of the lens (black) to ensure there is only a ring of light rather than a ring that lights up the whole lens. depending on how you want your lights to look.

ccfl halo's would also work. Or if you look into it enough there is a circular L.E.D made for xbox modifications to light up the emblem on the top of an old school xbox. those would be perfect as they're prefabbed, perfectly round, and cheap to replace if you ever break one.

 

These are my LED Tailights.

The concept isn't too hard, but it's a ***** to get them apart without cracking.