megacrazy

Bending what plastic? They are plug and play with the exception of a small piece of metal that needs to be bent out the way. It's easy to bend and it takes 2 mins.

waveterrorist

I was wondering if anyone has installed LED bulbs into the factory tail light sockets.

omega48er

I have led back up bulbs, much better than stock! Will try to take a pic tonight for you

Rudeney

I put amber LEDs in the front headlight turn signals. They are just as visible to other drivers as the filament bulbs (if not even more so), but they don't "project" as much light. Sitting behind a car at night with the turn signal on, I can just barely tell that they are flashing.

One of the caveats of using LEDs are that you have to buy the "error-free" bulbs, which means they have built-in resistors to fool the SAM into seeing them as full electrical load. This also means that if the LEDs fail, you will get no error messages.

kb24forlife24

Please do, i wanna see the difference between stock and LED.

omega48er

Here are some horrible pics. Sorry did not have any one to take the pictures.

I had to take them through my side mirrors. The first one is in park and the 2nd one is backing up.

waveterrorist

as obi-Rodney pointed out they have to be error correcting and they are not cheap

omega48er

Love the obi-rodney comment.
They are a bit pricy, my backup lights were 16 bucks, but they are well worth it. I will be getting the led tails later in the year.

Rudeney

Obi-rodney???? Oh good lord!

eddieo45

can anyone make out how these look from the pic? seems like an excellent idea....

waveterrorist

I have bought a couple pairs of allegedly canbus ready error free bulbs (not the cheap crap) for the tails and they worked but threw error codes

I have yet to find a vendor who will guarantee that their bulbs will not do the same.

One seller told me there is something about the CLK's resistance level that is problematic.

So if somebody has some that are truly plug and play I would like to know the source.