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buc1980
Explorer
Dec 12, 2015

ROOF clearance light

Anybody replace the original clearance yellow light on 2011 or latter F350 with led sets?What do you use?

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  • Tvov's avatar
    Tvov
    Explorer II
    I had a burned out roof clearance light on my F250, so I just picked up LED bulbs from Walmart and replaced all the bulbs. Clearance lights use a clear bulb with an orange plastic cover. Looks a slight different shade of orange - the LED bulbs are bluish, so inside the orange plastic cover it looks a little different.

    The LEDs from Walmart seem really cheap, so I don't know if I'd buy them again. So far, though, they are working.
  • spoon059 wrote:
    What color are you trying to go to? My Ram has clear lenses and had orange 194 bulbs, very dim during the day. I bought some orange LED 194's and tried those out, looked the exact same and still dim during the day. I bought cool white LED 194's and it is MUCH brighter. If you aren't opposed to white marker lights (I don't know the legality of it...) then I might suggest you look at that option.


    The 194's in your lights weren't LED? I've never had a lens off mine but I thought for sure they were LED.
  • What color are you trying to go to? My Ram has clear lenses and had orange 194 bulbs, very dim during the day. I bought some orange LED 194's and tried those out, looked the exact same and still dim during the day. I bought cool white LED 194's and it is MUCH brighter. If you aren't opposed to white marker lights (I don't know the legality of it...) then I might suggest you look at that option.
  • I think Putco is your best bet. Their LEDs hold up well and don't yellow. I tried Recon the first time and their stuff is garbage. It corrodes internally very quickly. I have Atomic LEDs now which have a nice strobe feature (which I wanted when I was managing a roadside assistance team, and occasional ended up on scene while off duty) and the lenses yellowed really badly, but the electrics are much better than Recon.