LED Brake Bulbs

[dazraz_uk]

anyone know where i can get some red LED brake light bulbs for my 94 hatch, only ive got oldskool clear tailights and teh bulbs that came with it are kinda pink which aint too good!

also anyone know what the bulb code is?

cheers

[Toyz-B-Us]

I believe they are a 2057, which can be interchanged with a 1157.

[dazraz_uk]

thanks for that, with the original bulbs being dual filament do they still work in the same way or what?

[Calesta]

The plug-in replacements do, yes- they should specify on the package what bulb they replace. I wouldn't buy them though- almost every LED replacement bulb on the market that you can get at a decent price is quite a bit dimmer than your stock bulbs.

[dazraz_uk]

the reason i needd to buy them though is because im so sick of replacing the stupid crappy red bulbs i need,im sure theres a fault somewhere but i cant find it, my brake filaments keep burning out in a short period of time, and so i thought that at least LEDs will last longer. Or is that just bull made up by the makers of teh LED bulbs?

[Calesta]

LEDs DO last longer than incandescant bulbs by design, but the LED replacements you buy at AutoZone and Rice Boys are pieces of crap with bad wiring and bad circuit boards. They don't last. I pulled mine out after 6 months and only about 3 out of 12 LEDs in each cluster on average still worked. Anyway, if you have a wiring fault in your car, putting in LEDs isn't going to make anything last longer. If you're blowing out bulbs, you're going to blow out the LEDs too. Fix the problem- don't just try to cover it up.

[imported_comutek]

ever thought about just going back w/ stock tails?

[dazraz_uk]

thanks for the advice, don't suppose you know the best way to go about checking whether there is a fault and where the fault is without having to pay the expensive costs for getting an auto electrician to look at it?

[dazraz_uk]

Originally posted by comutek@Nov 13 2003, 08:01 PM
ever thought about just going back w/ stock tails?

yeh i thought about that but it still wont solve the bulb problem

[Calesta]

Check all your wires- get a service manual and figure out where everything is connected, then go over it with a multimeter and figure out where your problem is. It'll be pretty time consuming, but that's probably all you can do... or not. I dunno. I'm just spewing out a standard way to go over a circuit to see if something's screwy.