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Truck LED lights
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:15 pm
by Grumpy Stumpy
I am in the market for some bling bling LED's for use as rear indicators aand brake lights. Can anyone advise me where I might be able to get some and any idea what they are worth? I am Brisbane.
Cheers
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:29 pm
by r0ck_m0nkey
Could check out the Narva website, and get in contact with them about where their agent locations are.
Try going to Truck places around your area aswell.
Re: Truck LED lights
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:55 pm
by AVGAS_502
Grumpy Stumpy wrote:I am in the market for some bling bling LED's for use as rear indicators aand brake lights. Can anyone advise me where I might be able to get some and any idea what they are worth? I am Brisbane.
Cheers
Try Multispares... they are surprisingly cheap from what i have seen in Owner Driver.
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:35 pm
by chimpboy
Have a look on
www.hella.com.au, get me some part numbers and I can organise a price.
No guarantees it will be world-beating but my neighbour is a Hella distributor. It's always cheaper if a few people all buy the same stuff at once.
Jason
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:35 pm
by big red
truckline on ipswich rd rocklea has heaps of stock and excellent prices.
they are on the left when heading towards the city.
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:39 pm
by DAZZ
Ashdowns sell Zeil leds Seem OK. Cheaper then Hella and Narva. Been selling heaps at work....
Re: Truck LED lights
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:17 pm
by bogged
jaycar
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:52 am
by V8Patrol
Local Shire had em on their "Road Maintainance" trucks but removed em after ppl complained about the poor visivility and an accident in which a passenger car struck the truck ( driver said there were no lights visiable).
Their brightness intensity is severly deminished during daylight hours specfically during early morning and late arvo sunlight.
pay to check it out first...
Kingy
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:57 am
by Midget
Yeah i must agree here,I have them on my car trailer.
The clear ones i got have brake,tail and indicator in them and during the day they are a little hard to see,but god dam when it's dark they are great,you see em a mile away.
Jamie
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:22 pm
by 4sum4
Don`t they use less watts if so wouldn`t it make them flash out of wack
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:05 pm
by Midget
Not sure about that 4sum,They work fine on my car trailer....
Jamie
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:03 pm
by hypo
4sum4 wrote:Don`t they use less watts if so wouldn`t it make them flash out of wack
thats right it wont flash as quick as if u have a blown globe but they will flash a bit quicker
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:06 pm
by basketcase
oozuk has preety nice ones on the back of his zuk. I'd give him a PM to see where to get them.
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:35 am
by bj on roids
hypolux wrote:4sum4 wrote:Don`t they use less watts if so wouldn`t it make them flash out of wack
thats right it wont flash as quick as if u have a blown globe but they will flash a bit quicker
just get a timed flasher unit instead of a load sensitive one.
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:39 am
by Midget
bj on roids wrote:hypolux wrote:4sum4 wrote:Don`t they use less watts if so wouldn`t it make them flash out of wack
thats right it wont flash as quick as if u have a blown globe but they will flash a bit quicker
just get a timed flasher unit instead of a load sensitive one.
As i said,i don't have any probs with mine towing behind my cruiser,They flash all the same as the normal....
Jamie
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:33 am
by hypo
Fourwheelin wrote:bj on roids wrote:hypolux wrote:4sum4 wrote:Don`t they use less watts if so wouldn`t it make them flash out of wack
thats right it wont flash as quick as if u have a blown globe but they will flash a bit quicker
just get a timed flasher unit instead of a load sensitive one.
As i said,i don't have any probs with mine towing behind my cruiser,They flash all the same as the normal....
Jamie
they wont effect the car if they r on the trailer anyway, if u replace the cars lights with them they will.
and yes BJ that is the best thing 2 do but if it dont bother ya who cares
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:10 am
by ausyota
Im planning on swapping both the rear lights and the front indicators over to LEDs.
So do I just need to get one those timed flasher unit things that BJ was talking about?
Do these just slot into the normal spot?
Who makes em?
Thanks
Paul.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:12 am
by Guy
I am pretty sure that they have a resistor pack or something in there to make the system "see" the same sort of load as a normal incandescent light ..
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:45 pm
by redrocket
A little tip, when replacing ute tail lights with the hella 3 in 1 LED units you will have to add a red reflector to the rear of the vehicle somewhere cause the LED's don't have any built in. If you get the semi trailer version of the 3 in 1 you will find these are a bit brighter as well. You should be looking at around $120ish ± $30 each for the big semi ones.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:59 pm
by Grumpy Stumpy
Woooo - Thanks for all the feedback. Time to do some bartering I think. Will post photos when I get the job done.
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 8:22 pm
by DNA Off Road
Just paid $180 for 6 lights - 2 each of reverse, tail/brake and indicator - check the Narva website - ordered them via Thompson's spare parts - arrived from Syndey two days later - I'm happy enough with that....
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 9:55 pm
by big red
the long thin hella ones...about 26mm wide and 258mm long
amber part No 2156-12V
stop/tail part No 2334-12V