Curing LED Turn Signal Conversion Problems

j-d wrote:
Agreed. I went LED because my OEM lights seemed to be having socket problems. That's why I ruled out Bargman's LED "upgrade" modules. Those should have offered proper "focus, directionality", whatever you want to call it, but would still connect via those troublesome sockets. The LED setup is all wired.

I used Bargman #84 LED triple (two red stop/turn and one incadesent backup light) fixtures to replace the older obsolete Bargman fixtures (which could not find new lenses to replace the broken ones).

These fixtures are wire in only.

Found out the hard way that the #84 LED modules simply do not last..

Two LED modules in three years are DEAD and BOTH times while I was ON THE ROAD, far, far way from home..

The only good thing is I have redundancy since each side has two modules but still none the less extremely expensive to replace and rather difficult to find replacements while on the road.

The only upside to these modules is they ARE bright but only when they work (which like I have found you can not count on them to work).

Yes, they do have a "lifetime" warranty but really what good does that do you if you are 100, 500, 1,000 miles from home and they quit working? Not to mention the cost of shipping them back to Bargman is almost half the cost of a new module...

With incadescent bulbs you can find them anywhere and they cost a $1 for two...

Even worse, when I convertered to LED tail lights I thought changin the markers was a good idea to LEDs after all I am used to LEDs lasting tens of thousands of hrs... Well you guessed it, I now have one intermitant LED marker and two which are half lit as of end of camping in 2013..

Yep, now I get to replace the ENTIRE LED $7 marker :S instead of a 25 cent bulb :S :S ...

I am looking at buying some LEDs and DIY my own markers and do it right instead of these haphazardly made ones..

Incadescent bulb sockets ARE looking better each day...