White LEDs N 3rd brake light for backups full width/red 2

magyver · #1 (**permalink**) Sat., Mar 03, 2007

so a guy posted this idea awhile ago on www.hidplanet.com/forums/led to do this to his wife's tC. well, he was a noobie to modding and since i already done mine once w/ red led's, i decided to try it. HOWEVER, i used quality superflux led's and those are bigger than the stubby wide anle 5mm's i shoulda used.

so basicly, its a row of red lumiled superfluxes for the brakes, they are lined up behind the most diffused part of the lense, the white crazy bright superflux's are line up behind the clearer part of the 3rd brake lense. what? yeah, i did them backwards now that i have them lit. so thats one strike against myself. the second is the led's are like 8000K and i didnt notice till i was able to stand back and compare to my stock reverse lights. so thats the second strike against em.

w/ them being superflux, there wasnt alot of room for the lense to fit, but i made them work. im still not happy w/ them. i was unhappy w/ the spacing of my first set i made as they led's lined up different as the 3rd brake is diffused weird.. so some led's were dim but were not, it was just due to the lense's spacing. so that looked like anus so when dude had this idea, it gave me more will power to change it..

so yeah, i know there's gonna be haters. and i feel ya.. there will be a version 3.0 next time i get bored. so hate away!

couple vids:

ThetC · #2 (**permalink**) Sun., Mar 04, 2007

alls you gotta do now is change out the actual reverse lights

magyver · #3 (**permalink**) Sun., Mar 04, 2007

yeah but those babies are the only ones that throw light. there isnt an led bulb that can match teh output of a halogen yet.. and w/ tinted windows, ineed all i can get back there...

chicotunner07 · #4 (**permalink**) Sun., Mar 04, 2007

looks good, hella bright!!

peruano85 · #5 (**permalink**) Mon., Mar 05, 2007

how do you remove the 3rd brake light???

navylife59 · #6 (**permalink**) Tue., Mar 06, 2007

Looks sweet. I see you cheated and used the magic washing machine

chicotunner07 · #7 (**permalink**) Tue., Mar 06, 2007

yeah, just throw all ur materials in the washing machine, on soft fabric medium load, and voila, u have what u want!!!!

navylife59 · #8 (**permalink**) Thu., Mar 08, 2007

If only those Civic guys could have figured that out

chicotunner07 · #9 (**permalink**) Thu., Mar 08, 2007

haha, im still a honda guy at heart, i just love japanese cars as a whole!!

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