Not sure if it makes a difference, but I was going to put a set of LED turn signal 1157 bulb in the front bumper as my turn signal lights, not sure if it would hurt/and or affect anything? Opinions conclusions? I put in LED on my dash and interior lights on the 65 mustang with no ill effects, just didnt know how the LED may affect the circuit of turn/running lights, THanks Ryan
From what I've heard when replacing all blinkers to LED you also must use a special LED flasher. Also LED's are more directional. Not as visibly off to sides.
Unless there is a distinct advantage to using LED lighting, I don't think that they are worth the extra cost. I can see using them in a car interior where you would be leaving the doors open for people to view the interior, and don't want the battery drain of standard lighting, but I can't see any advantage to replacing the directional light bulbs with LED's.
I want to run clear front lenses and like the look of an LED behind the clear (the are white until lit) It just looks a little cleaner, but I may just go with yellow 1157 bulbs like old school. The LEDs are nearly the same price now a days, Ryan
When son rewired our 55 wagon he switched to these type LED's. Never saw the others which seem better in some cases. However many years ago I switched to amber front lenses in the 55 wagon which are basically flat. The rears are Buick, or same as the conversion LEE lenses. A 210 wagon did not have back up lites. Added another socket in back up hole so always ran two 1157 bulbs on each side. The new bulbs with side LED's may be a little better, but four tail/brake/signal lites is plenty. Plus a Taurus third brake lite above rear gate. Add to that extra brite tag lites and a full flouresent lite around license frame. Kin ya see me now?
the only advantages to the LEds are they last longer and they are BRIGHTER !! which in a classic car can be nice!!!.....less chance of some dork running into you !!! if you change all the lights...then you will have to get either a 'adjustable' flasher....or a 'no load' flasher. there is a huge array of LEDs out there now!..as far as style and direction of light. the one thing i'll say is ....dont put RED ones in your tailights...they rarely work right...stick with clear LEDs in a REd lense
I bought a couple amber LED assemblies like this for my front turn signals, but they would not fit deep enough in the sockets to engage the locking lugs. I had designed and made my own LED arrays for my rear lights. I got tired of people telling me one of my lights was out when it wasn't. My arrays use 140 of LEDs used in the above bulb replacement each. I replaced the flasher with a unit for LEDs that I got from MSC (65139891 at mscdirect.com).
So Adrian, if I come over to Gainsville and ram you in the rear it's not because I couldn't see your tail lights? But I could be lighting a cigarette, talking on the cell phone, or putting on my make up! I believe we could have aircraft landing lights and some people wouldn't notice. Still, it's nice to try.
So if you put LED lights in do you have to use LED in the rear as well with that LED type flasher or if you leave standard lights in the back will they work with the LED flasher, was that confusing? LOL RYan
Yes that was,is, confusing. But I've been that way for so long I don't know what unconfused is! I'm thinkin, which gives me more confusion, if you leave the regular bulbs in rear you can keep your old fashioned blinker thingie. But, personally, it is the rear lights that I would want brighter. Thus, put LED's back there too, or instead, or likewise! CONFUSED ?
A stock flasher requires stock bulbs in all locations to blink properly. That's why when you plug in a trailer, they don't blink properly unless you change the flasher, you've changed the load on the circuit. Same reason when you burn out a bulb and the whole mess quits blinking. LEDs draw a different load than standard bulbs. One of those electronic flashers doesn't care if you've got a trailer, or some LEDs, or alll LEDs. It uses a circuit to control the flash rate, rather than the load of the bulbs.
