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Aftermarket lighting. Driving lights, fog lights, rock lights, HID, halogen. Make your Ford Explorer light up the night!!
Howdy, Has anybody replaced their Explorer/PIU's headlight bulbs (9005) with LEDs? How did that go? Better or worse than with halogens? Do they flicker, did you need an anti-flicker capacitor? Are they positioned correctly, not too high or too low? If you've done it successfully, which LED bulbs did you use? How're the fans working? Are they too loud? Has anyone had a fan fail relatively quickly? Or should I just stick to proper and expensive halogens? Thanks!
I'm trying to find some harnesses/pigtails that plug into the factory fog light plug on a '99 XLT. I've replaced my bumper with an RLC (LOVING IT!), and want to install new foglights, but use the factory wiring. I just found some a few days ago, but somehow lost the link and can't remember what they're called. Anyone able to help me out? These would be a two-wire harness/pigtail that has the same socket/receptacle that the factory fog light H1 bulb holder has. Thank you for any help you can provide!
I'm finally doing an HID retrofit on my 2nd Gen Explorer. I was unable to loosen the glue, (even at 300 degrees F, the glue was not budging) so I just cut the first headlight open with my Dremel. Now that I am about to order parts, I am wondering about resealing the housings after the retrofit is done. I've watched most YT videos on the topic (most of those videos the headlights were heated open), but I can't find a thorough explanation of the best way to reseal my headlights after they've been cut open. Without clips, screws or even a ledge to hold the lenses in, the material has to not only be watertight, it needs to securely hold the headlight lenses in place so they don't fall out from the vibrations of daily driving. Stupid...
Hey everyone, long time reader first time poster! I have an issue that has just cropped up. I recently replaced both turn signal bulbs in the front and rear with the LED variants for each. I'm getting hyper flash on the inside signal indicator, but the bulbs blink at the correct speed. I know I can use ForScan to fix the hyper flash issue. The issue I'm concerned about is that the rear LED signals blink fine individually and when the hazards are on. However, when I press the brake pedal, both signal LEDs illuminate as well. I've searched for similar problems but couldn't see anything like this. I took the LED out and put the regular bulb back in and it did the same thing. None of the wires appear to be shorting out or even stripped...
I'm over in the UK, and I have US Spec (red turn signal) lights fitted, cos I like how they look. However, our turn signals need to be orange, so I need to adapt my reverse light to accept switchback LEDs. Is there a socket that will take a dual filament bulb that will fit in the hole used by the single filament bulb socket? Top image is reverse hole. 2nd image is the stop/tail bulb Si
I have a 2012 Explorer limited that came with the factory HIDs, I was in the mountains this week driving down some very dark roads and I was really struggling to see as the lights seemed very dim even (I ended up following an F150 most of the way home as it headlights were way better) I had LEDs on my old truck and have HIDs in my other car and both seen way brighter, just wondering if there is an upgraded HID bulb available or even an LED conversion kit maybe?
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