Brake,tail and signal light conversion to LED

Heavy Metal Doctor wrote:

LED lights do generally last a lot longer, as long at you buy a reputable brand. I have many commercial trucks processed through with Maxxima, Grote and Ttuck-Lite brands and can't recall a customer complaint of a premature failure.

I have the Bargman #84 LEDs which lpxguy posted.. THEY DO NOT "LAST"

Best I have gotten out of them before they quit is TWO YEARS and that is only traveling 2K miles per year..

I got smart and started buying the two module fixture since it IS cheaper than buying a SINGLE "replacement" module.

I regret the day I ever decided to replace the incadescent fixtures, they were dead simple AND cheap to fix ($1 bulb and contact cleaner once every few years).

As far as commercial truck brands goes.. I replaced all the markers with Grote and guess what? Yep, I have TWO intermittent ones that half the LEDs inside quit every once and a while and TWO that have only ONE of the two sets of LEDs still working.. Yep, that there is gonna cost me a cool $20 for more LED markers vs $4 for four incadescent marker bulbs :S :M

You are only fooling yourself if you really think those commercial LEDs last a long time.. My daily commute is an hr each way on very busy trucking routes.. I work near a major Postal bulk mail center on top of that.. I see hundreds of trucks a week and I RARELY EVER see trucks which DON'T have partial or fully burned out LEDs...

I won't recommend folks to change over to them unless they love spending a lot of money constantly replacing expensive modules every few years.. Incadescent bulbs are dirt cheap, LED modules are not..