akbro93704

thanks RLE

Robbio204

Looks awesome. How was the installation and did you get dealer parts?

micropower99

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.

micropower99

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)

jstaneff

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.)

RLE

Whether you like yellow or not is of no concern to me but since I have switched mine from red to yellow, I can tell you that they are more visible under certain conditions and are not overpowered by the other red lights in the taillight assembly.

MB began using yellow turn lights in 1972 and why they went back to red in the 2008 W204 is a mystery to me.

micropower99

Well put. I guess it all depends on our visions and preferences.

RLE

Those are red, not yellow. Just the camera, that day.

Krytech

Right on! I was wondering who was going to jump on those. Nice upgrade!

RLE

Not necessarily. A couple of prescriptions back, I had problems at night with auras around lights with new glasses and I went back to my Opthalmologist who corrected my prescription slightly and things went back to normal with new lenses.

And, LEDs are becoming far more common what with the new E-Class, Audis and now Porsche with always-on white LEDs up front.

Jakew903

Bad ***!

akbro93704

Installation was simple...had to pop out and peel back a small part of the trunk liner to get to one of the nuts, but all in all very easy.

I bought them from a member of this forum...