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Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:31 PM
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Here is my recent mod that I did, I had gotten another 3rd brake light and cut it open then drilled 12 3/8" holes spaced 1" apart from eachother, placed 6 White Superflux LEDs (ordered from Oznium.com) on each side then wired them together and wired it into the reverse lights.

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And a night shot:



What do you all think of it??
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:34 PM
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That's pretty cool.
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:36 PM
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haha that's sick, now u need brighter white reverse lights. Superbrightled 921 in white would match it perfectly
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:38 PM
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yea I am def going to be getting new reverse lights, lol, those suck I can't see anything with them, lol. Thanks
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:48 PM
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oh u need them to see? haha! I have blue ones in my reverse so I can't see anything, get sum hyper____e bulbs I had them and they were bright as hell check ebay for them got them for 4 bucks shipped and they lasted me forever till I sold them
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 03:52 PM
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yea, my tints are a little too dark for me to see out of so I need my reverse lights, lol. I am actually going to order some LED ones from autolumination.com, I saw pics of them in the TYC tails and they are bright as hell...
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hmm gonna check them out I have dark tints but I roll the windows when I park never really needed the reverse lights for sum reason
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 04:44 PM
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Pssh just use your side mirrors for backing up. 5% tint ftmfw.
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lmao...I've tried and almost took out a friends mailbox, lol... I need some light back there, dark ___ streets here in NY
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Hahaha put some HIDs in the reverse then xP
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hahahahah, if I could I def would, lmao
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DO IT! DO IT NOW!
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hahahahahaha, maybe a small H3 bulb will fit in there nicely! lmao
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so instead of spending less money on just the leds themselves and wiring it up yourself,
all the leds you bought were pre-wired stuff, thus all that extra wires you had to splice together?

okies.

looks nice, but i do hope you just wired it to your reverse light.. though it looks like it is so.
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looks good but im with squallheart, i hope nothing goes wrong because that looks sick
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 05:36 PM
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yea it's just wired to my reverse light and that's it. Buying it pre-wired was easier, I spliced all the connections right behind the light before I put it back in, so it wasn't all that hard.
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 05:36 PM
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interesting....hahaha....
thats a first i can say that much
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That looks awesome!!
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 05:41 PM
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thanks everyone, Nothing should go wrong with it, everything is nicely taped up and wired correctly, I made sure I didn't cut into any wires while installing it and everything, lol... I tripled checked everything before buttoning it up, lol.
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Neat-o!

reminds of of the FORD Truck TBL w/ the reverse on them too.



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