Brake,tail and signal light conversion to LED
I have a 2012 3500 silverado and pull a 14000 lb 5th wheel. I want to switch out the standard tail lights to LED. I'm sure you all have done this, any advise?
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riggsp wrote:
Changed all the exterior lights to LED's 2 years ago...Tail/Stop/Turn Signal, and all amber and red running lights...have had absolutely no problems with them and they are brighter than the incandescent lights that I took off, and no troubles with the flasher...the old lenses (only 2 years old) were getting cloudy and falling apart from weather exposure...if I had to do it over, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Mine looked good for the first couple of years but now every year I am enjoying replacing at least one LED module. I am now to the point that I am thinking about can opening those lousy modules a rebuild them THE RIGHT WAY (lowering the current draw) and with better LEDs.
After the first Tail light module bought the farm while traveling I now carry AT LEAST TWO of those modules so I can replace while on the road. Buy them each and they are nearly $50 each or as I wised up just buy another tail light "pair" of modules for about $60.
Spent $7 per marker and now I have 4 markers which are only lighting on half of the marker..
As far as the flasher goes, most vehicles now days use a separate set of fused circuits which use a set of relays FOR THE TRAILER LIGHT CONNECTION. The vehicle in this case DOES NOT see any load change.
HOWEVER if you decide to put LED bulbs in your VEHICLE tail lights you WILL need to add the load resistors. Modern day vehicles use the body control computer to detect the proper bulb current. If it doesn't see the correct current drawn it IS supposed to hyper flash..
Keep in mind HYPER FLASH is if you replace the vehicle incadescent bulbs with LED lights..
