LED Tail Lights

That's an interesting question. An incandescent bulb will have, I would think, a higher impedance than an LED array. Then again, I would also think that anyone manufacturing such a beast would take this into account by putting a power resistor in series or some such.

-- Mike Smith

FWIW Audi always made every part internally interchangable. Motors, drivetrains, headlights etc. all of them can be interchanged without any problem. So I gather this goes also for LED lights.

Ronald

I seem to remember that the front and rear light check control operates by comparing the one side's lamp resistance with the other (side's).

So, in theory, if you change both sides' lamps this should create to resistance differences problem.

IF the resistance has to be of a predetermined value then maybe adding such a resistance module per side will rectify the problem.

The autocheck warning light problem exists with those cars and owners who have upgraded their front lights to HID Xenon ones instead of standard halogen lamps. In this case there is a procedure involving the cutting away of two items inside the autocheck electronic module or relay.

Take care Pantelis

For an extensive range of all types of LEDs I would recommend you take a closer look at this site

Have not bought anything from them but their range is impressive.

HTH Pantelis

Any luck for us here in the UK for the same stuff?

Cheers, Jules

Jules Hi,

They do have representatives and dealers in France and Germany.

Since I am also based in Europe (Greece in particular) I will be buying from one of their EU based dealers to save on import duties. But I will first sompare the prices.

Take care Pantelis

They sell them, £9.99 much cheaper than the american site. they want $43.00 per bulb

That guy sells on ebay

Cheers

Ron

Very cool stuff...

Now I need to find a Canadian source for these things!

Although, the text says: "Use only 1/50th the power of a conventional bulb"

This means 1/50 the normal current draw.. If your car has lamp burn-out detection, then these things may trigger false bulb alerts.

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Don't Canadian Tire have those in the new, mostly rice-rocket performance section? You might want to check there (just remember, friends don't let friends put led-eyed skull shift knobs in their Audis...) Same goes for lit Chevy bowties, huh JPF? (- and thanks) Cheers! Steve Sears

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Some of the companies sell specific bulbs for CHEV or FORD that have a resistor in parallel with the LED array so that they draw enough current so that the computer does not turn on the BULB idiot light.

I have bought a set of APC 1157 bulb replacements (google for APC LED BULB for a retailer list) from

(canada) or (US) to go in my utility trailer. (Search for LED bulb on there site) While the bulbs are great they won't work on 2 of the three vehicles I we use the trailer with.

My car (Olds Intrigue) uses separate turn signal and brake bulbs so it has a trailer converter to combine the signal for the trailer. The LED bulbs will only work with a standard bulb in parallel. Same on my brothers GMC Yukon Denali. On my dads GMC Astro with a common turn and brake light they work just fine and are brighter than a regular bulb.

Anyone know why the trailer converter messes it up?

Barry

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Just checked out their website... Got some 403 errors, the pictures are TINY (if there are any) and there isn't much in the way of detail. Definately not the best of sites to shop at.