New kit came today.

Fitted 2 in each.

Just put the lenses in hot water for 10 min to part them.

Very easy job.

Daylight

They look pretty darn good

Has anyone seen or used these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/360944738589?ul_noapp=true




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Bluegreygreen Rangie wrote:

They look pretty darn good

Has anyone seen or used these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/360944738589?ul_noapp=true




Dave

^^ A box of matches is an improvement on standard

The only car that I have owned that has worse reversing lights is my Austin Seven Saloon... and that is probably because they didn't fit them to the Mini until the 70's and mines a 1959  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Anyone know whether you can buy reversing lamps which have already been converted?

Although I am pretty handy with stuff I just don't have the time to take them off and do them myself at the moment and I use mine everyday so can't have it off the road.

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I have only ever seen one set for sale that weren't attached to a car. No one is producing them as the ffrr isn't a high volume car, so the only lights that are available to convert are OEM... with the LR price tag

I was thinking of doing something like that on an exchange basis, but, as the lights get brittle the older they are + one mans good is another mans sub standard, I decided that it was way too complicated unless new lights were used.. and that in turn loaded the price to start with to a point that I thought no one would be interested. And then there was another discovery made, the LED's function fine on an early ffrr's but, on the later cars, they can't handle the slightly higher voltage the AGM system runs at.... and they sort of get hot...DAM HOT and fail

I did develope a way around this but it all adds to the cost.... Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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it would be a seller if someone [in china?] produced a led equivalent ... even a slightly smaller unit would look nice .. ... - .- -.




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babagee wrote:

Bluegreygreen Rangie wrote:

They look pretty darn good

Has anyone seen or used these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/360944738589?ul_noapp=true




Dave

I've fitted these and the reversing lightt output is very good and a great improvement on standard output
Mine also flash in time with the indicators but led red - a bit to policey (?) but have been through 2 MOTs with no issues

I would have thought it would be simple to connect up just the reversing lights and stop lights leaving the indicators not connected

^^ If your fitting those, don't forget to add Red Reflectors to keep on the right side of the law  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Do these flash as the car sends a test pulse around the car to locate dud incandescent bulbs? ______________________________
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they shouldn't, but it really depends on what you wire them to, the reverse lights are not monitored by the LCM  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Thanks miggit. I assume the LCM sends a pulse to the brake light? And that without without a diode will flash like my LED trailer lights? ______________________________
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Yes Bud, the LCM, or Light Control Module, repeatedly sends very short pluses to the lights to make sure that the circuit is still working correctly, i.e. the bulb is still functioning and there isn't an open circuit... which would indicated that there was either a broken or missing bulb. When it does this a normal filament bulb is too slow to light up, and it will appear to be off, when a LED is introduced in to this circuit it flashes because the LED reacts much quicker.

I suppose that the addition of a capacitor in to the circuit might stop the blinks, but I don't think that a diode will stop the flashing, the best way is to turn off the LCM for that circuit with either a Gap IID Tool of NavCoder  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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