WHICH 3157 LED BULBS?

[Lauxmi01]

Hey, Looking to replace my amber front turn signals with 3157 LED bulbs and possibly my reverse bulbs. Eventually looking to get the smoked LED smoked tailights as well.

What bulb, company, LED count does everyone reccomend? seem to be a ton out there.

[wordstew]

I've done a ton of research on this and here's what I found out so far

You really just can't change your regular bulbs to LEDS without adding a resistor to each one. It may also screw up your blinker rate and I've also heard people say just adding LEDS will strangly enough screw with your cruise control.

If you do try and add them I would suggest either SMT or 3 watt luxeon bulbs. These are the only ones that will be bright enough for motor vehicle applications. Luxeons are the brightest of all. They do make LEDS that are a combination of both SMT and Luxeon. you can find them at www.superlumination.com or www.superbrightleds.com Super lumination site claims they are the very brightest and super bright leds come with built in load resistors

Do yourself a favor go to Ebay and buy the H3 LED ALTEZZA TAIL LIGHTS LAMPS. they sell them all ready to go. They also sell led signal and side marker lights for the H3 on Ebay.

Please if you do any of these things post with your impressions and Pm me I'm very curious to see hoew it works out for you

good luck hope your future is bright

[wordstew]

I've done a ton of research on this and here's what I found out so far

You really just can't change your regular bulbs to LEDS without adding a resistor to each one. It may also screw up your blinker rate and I've also heard people say just adding LEDS will strangly enough screw with your cruise control.

If you do try and add them I would suggest either SMT or 3 watt luxeon bulbs. These are the only ones that will be bright enough for motor vehicle applications. Luxeons are the brightest of all. They do make LEDS that are a combination of both SMT and Luxeon. you can find them at www.superbrightleds.com or superlumination.com superlumination claims the brightest of all car bulb, Superbright leds come with built in load resistors

Do yourself a favor go to Ebay and buy the H3 LED ALTEZZA TAIL LIGHTS LAMPS. they sell them all ready to go. They also sell led signal and side marker lights for the H3 on Ebay.

Please if you do any of these things post with your impressions and Pm me I'm very curious to see hoew it works out for you

good luck hope your future is bright

[Lauxmi01]

Hey thanks for the help. Haven't decided on a bulb yet. I've been doing a lot of highway driving lately, mostly at night, and constantly catch myself checking out the lights/bulbs that the big 18-wheelers are running. I also noticed more and more are using LED clearance/cab lights, very sharp. I want that sharp look for my roof marker lamps, and also turn signals....... I am curious to see if using a LED circuit board type light would work. I like this site, let me know what yout think: www.Vleds.com

I know LEDs are not as bright as our normal bulbs, is it possible to find one that is brighter? something different than an LED?