installed LED taillights...
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Looks great bro, good job. Although I like the LED taillights where the turn signals are red (it looks amazing when I saw it on another W204 I was behind once) but the yellow is still a hell of a lot better than the non-LED. 
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Yeah, I'm basically saying I don't like the euro LED's because it's "yellow turn signals". The red looks much better. BUT it still looks better than the regular non-LED taillights. (Cause LED's = nice lol)
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Given this reaction is most probably because of my near-sightedness, it's no-big-deal, but if others have the same reaction, especially with nearly 20/20 vision, then LEDs may actually be dangerous.
(To head off these comments: my vision is corrected to 20/20, the prescription is 1 year old, and this matrix has been visible to me over several prescriptions ever since LEDs started being used for tails.)
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Red vs yellow
MB began using yellow turn lights in 1972 and why they went back to red in the 2008 W204 is a mystery to me.
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Maybe. What you probably can't see, but I see very well, is a matrix pattern in the glow coming from LED tails. (Night time only, of course.) This is a function, I think, of my being very near-sighted (20/1000 or so). When someone hits the brakes on an LED, the whole space around the car lights up in this magnificent matrix. It's not "painful" but it does generate a strong reaction, and it doesn't "go away" immediately after the brakes are released.
Given this reaction is most probably because of my near-sightedness, it's no-big-deal, but if others have the same reaction, especially with nearly 20/20 vision, then LEDs may actually be dangerous.
(To head off these comments: my vision is corrected to 20/20, the prescription is 1 year old, and this matrix has been visible to me over several prescriptions ever since LEDs started being used for tails.)
Given this reaction is most probably because of my near-sightedness, it's no-big-deal, but if others have the same reaction, especially with nearly 20/20 vision, then LEDs may actually be dangerous.
(To head off these comments: my vision is corrected to 20/20, the prescription is 1 year old, and this matrix has been visible to me over several prescriptions ever since LEDs started being used for tails.)
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Red
Those are red, not yellow. Just the camera, that day.
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Maybe. What you probably can't see, but I see very well, is a matrix pattern in the glow coming from LED tails. (Night time only, of course.) This is a function, I think, of my being very near-sighted (20/1000 or so). When someone hits the brakes on an LED, the whole space around the car lights up in this magnificent matrix. It's not "painful" but it does generate a strong reaction, and it doesn't "go away" immediately after the brakes are released.
Given this reaction is most probably because of my near-sightedness, it's no-big-deal, but if others have the same reaction, especially with nearly 20/20 vision, then LEDs may actually be dangerous.
(To head off these comments: my vision is corrected to 20/20, the prescription is 1 year old, and this matrix has been visible to me over several prescriptions ever since LEDs started being used for tails.)
Given this reaction is most probably because of my near-sightedness, it's no-big-deal, but if others have the same reaction, especially with nearly 20/20 vision, then LEDs may actually be dangerous.
(To head off these comments: my vision is corrected to 20/20, the prescription is 1 year old, and this matrix has been visible to me over several prescriptions ever since LEDs started being used for tails.)
And, LEDs are becoming far more common what with the new E-Class, Audis and now Porsche with always-on white LEDs up front.
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