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Your cart is empty.LED bulb & socket kits are brighter and smaller than traditional bulb & socket kits, allowing for ease of installation in compact taillight housings. These lights do not tap into the vehicle’s existing wiring & are operated by the towing vehicle.
GlobalTrekker
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019
The LED lights that came with the kit were so flimsy. no installation bracket or anything. I could have bought the components separately and probably saved 75% of the cost! I felt ripped off!
Garrett M.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2016
Overall easy to install, except the bulbs did not have a good socket to lock into the 9/16th hole drilled in the housing, had to use a silicone to glue them in.
Thomas Becker
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2014
My vehicle required a kit to activate tail light functions while towed behind a motorhome. Each of my aftermarket tail light assemblies have a clear, colorless lens. The 3 native bulbs each have their own enclosed housing with textured lenses & surfaces to reflect & diffuse the light for a bigger appearance. The red LED bulb & socket required drilling a hole from the back of each tail light assembly to install the socket. This put the LED bulb directly behind the assembly's clear, colorless & smooth lens (it can clearly be observed when unlit). When lit, the bulb is bright enough on its own. But, because it lacks the usual textured reflective surfaces around it & textured red lens in front of it to enhance the light, it has a smaller, pinpoint appearance (compare to a floodlight vs a spot light). The result is during daylight turn signals & brake lights are a little obvious than standard original equipment. I anticipated this effect before installing and asked Blue Ox if in this situation they would still be DOT approved & the answer was yes. I think it is "iffy". I will add supplemental adhesive LED strips that have full functions for added safety. These attach exterior to the tail light assembly or the nearby sheet metal & their wiring will tap into the Blue Ox kit's wiring. If your tail light assemblies are the more common all red outer lens these LED bulbs should be excellent except you would use the "white" LED bulbs.
Rhyph
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012
These are terrible. They were properly installed, instructions never stated that the bulbs themselves are polarity sensitive; one was shipped in its socket backwards. Had to completely pull apart post installation to discover this problem. After working out that issue, I then find that cannot see them in the day light at all. Not direct sun light, that's obviously a no-go and even worse, I mean just plain ole day light, they absolutely cannot be seen. They barely provide a fleck of light within the tail lamp housing when lit full-bright in brake or turn-signal mode.I was also not happy to discover that they were not set-up as separate turn/brake lamp and parking light wires. Instead, they use some voltage cutting resistor in-line on a single input wire, which was a cheap shortcut to provide something such as a proper hi-lo dual brightness LED module. The socket used is for your typical bi-pin type 194 marker/courtesy light.Stay away from these until they come out with something either 3 times the size of the leds, brightness and wiring of a real 3157 tail lamp LED module, or increase the included bulb to a 3 row module. These mini LEDs are for courtesy/map/marker lamp use, not for lighting a full tail lamp housing. They are inadequate as-is.You can buy these exact LED 194 replacements by the dozen (yes, 12 LED modules) for under $10. The lumen output of one of these at full brightness is only 40 lumen. That's worse than a nightlight bulb (310 lumens), or for direct comparison to your typical 3157 tail lamp bulb such as in my vehicle, a 3157 bulb outputs >400 lumens on the bright filament, and ~200 lumen on the lower for parking lamp. How they figured 40 lumen would be nearly enough for something important like BRAKE LIGHTS to keep you from being rear-ended is beyond me, and just plain poor product design and research.Now that I've had to pull them out, I'm left with two destroyed tail lamp housings (having been drilled out) off my brand new vehicle I bought last month with This is the part number for the "red" LED kit. The BX88269 is the "white/clear" LED kit part number. You must use a red LED with a red lens tail lamp assembly or it will not produce a red light out of your tail lamp, do your research on this. All of the LED bulb selling sites will explicitly tell you this. I'm frankly not sure why they even make a white kit, no one has white/clear brake/tail-lamps that aren't going to need to be lit with a red LED module anyway.
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