LED conversion

[lunchbox858]

I was wondering if anyone here has converted their filament lamps to LED lamps (turn signals and stop lamp)?

if so, were there any problems. one of the dealers says that

Originally Posted by superbrightleds.com

LED brake/tail lamps may not work with some thermal flasher units due to their extremely low current draw. These installations will require an electronic flasher unit, available in our car bulb shopping category or at your auto parts store. Try to find flashers designed to work with LED bulbs, often HEAVY DUTY flashers will work.

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LED bulbs may cause some newer vehicles to indicate a bulb is burnt out (because of their low power consumption). Some cars indicate this by increasing the flash rate of the turn signals, some turn on a bad bulb indicator.This can be remedied with our Load Resistors wired across the turn signal bulbs to simulate a filament bulb load. We have these available by our LED turn signal bulbs in our online shopping cart

any advice or exposure to this would help before i spend the cash. thanks

[tundo]

Depends upon how many LED's you use. If you replace both front and rear turn signal bulbs with LED's they will flash excessively fast because of the low current draw. If you only replace the front or rear, you won't experience any change in signal speed. I like LED's however they do not e-mit nearly as much light as a traditional filament bulb would. They are coming out with new led's that have 360 degree light emission but my experience with these is limited.

Ryan

[Johnny Law]

Check out www.autolumination.com, you are gonna need special LED's for the Tundra, this guy has them. Also check out this thread LED turn signal bulbs in the 2005 Tacoma.

[lunchbox858]

Thanks for the information and the link.