Always go with red, if you use a white bulb with red lens the red will look pink, or in other words "washed out" when I had leds on my explorer tails I used a set of high power reds they put out I think 800 lumens each and were perfectly visible during the day and looked awesome at night! Use ebay and search high power red (bulb type) led bulb, most come as a pair, beware of the Chinese crap, go for the usa sellers and don't pay more then 30$ got mine for 20
Always go with red, if you use a white bulb with red lens the red will look pink, or in other words "washed out" when I had leds on my explorer tails I used a set of high power reds they put out I think 800 lumens each and were perfectly visible during the day and looked awesome at night! Use ebay and search high power red (bulb type) led bulb, most come as a pair, beware of the Chinese crap, go for the usa sellers and don't pay more then 30$ got mine for 20
Nevermind, answered my own question. Thanks again for the input!
No problem buddy! Make sure you get a set of resistors so you will not get the annoying hyper flash the run about 10$ for a set of 4 easy to install, only takes about 30 second's
personally I have load resistors in place to keep mine from doing it, it looks funny and makes the installation of nice, cool LED'S look unprofessional.Well if you like the hyper flash with a LED the more power to ya!
I don't know exactly what you mean by hyperflash but the ones I've seen flashed at about 500ms on 500ms off vs 1 sec on 1 sec off. Was not fast enough to look like a strobe.
Why do they flash faster without loads? I thought thermal flashers were a thing of the past and replaced by electronic flasher units.
Actually, I remember with the thermal flashers adding more load would make them flash faster.[/QUOTE
Ok let's go over these questions one by one lol, whenever a bulb on your vehicle (or most of them) burns out for example a front turn signal, the vehicle will "let you know" the bulb is out by making the bulb flash really quickly, kind of like a bulb out indicator, now here's why a led bulb makes the cars blinker blink fast, led bulbs don't pull enough power since they don't need too, they can produce 2 even 3x as much light as a incandescent using a fourth less of power, now here is where it gets weird, the vehicle can tell if there is a load, (from the old 30-40 watt bulb), if it is not pulling a specific wattage it will trip the cars "bulb out" function, so therefore you need a resistor to "make the car think it's actually pulling the true 30/40 watts of power, do a quick youtube search of led hyper flash.
