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What does everyone think? I want a clear one like the Mazda 6, that will light up red when on, but I'm wondering where I might find the supplies. Anyone got any ideas?

 
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have you taken the led assembly out from the spoiler? i dont have one but they might be clear when off and red when on and there's just a red lens covering them...

anyways...

http://www.allelectronics.com has a good selection..i've ordered from them before

i think that idea sounds pretty cool...it would look especially nice with uk tails...

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oo oo...found a good site

http://www.ledtronics.com/

some of their listings arent finished yet i guess..it would be best to give them a call

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dude check this site out...i wanna do this to my stock tails...

http://home.attbi.com/~jbipes/ttr/ledtails.html

in case you didnt notice i get off on this electrical stuff...

 
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that last link is definitly hardcore. lol

 
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lol yea..

its simular to the lexus 330 but smaller leds

 
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That's what i'm gonna do IF i know HOW to open-up the tallight Cover/Glass without breaking it ................

 
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this guy used a dremel then wetsanded both sides smooth...i think thats what we are gonna have to do as well...thats going to suck on that sharp curve we have to follow

 
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Hmmm... that would look sweet. The horseshoe looking LED light pack would be bad ***. I would pay someone to do that to mine. Actually, i have another set of stock tails i could work on. I'll give it a shot when i'm bored one day. The only problem is the socket assembly. How would i make that? Anyone in IL close to o'hare wanna give it a shot with me?

 
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Thats really funny that you posted this. I actually just took the brake light off of my spoiler to check it out because i've been wanting to replace it with a white lens for a while. When i took it off it was sealed up pretty well just like the stock tail lights. Its not possible to open it up without cutting it or something. Theres a total of 24 LEDs in there. I guess you would have to fabricate an outer clear casing to do this. I going to find out how i could make something like that.

 
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give you a hint..... <---- Use the socket/base

SuperBrightLeds.com

 
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hell i'd just scotch lock it further down on the wires themselves leaving the sockets intact...

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o ya...i'm currently trying to dremel my tails apart...its not fun...i have a cordless dremel and i ran out of juice... :P i'm really just experiementing...if i screw these up so what...i can get replacements at 45 bux a pop or so on ebay

 
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i saw those lights before, but i'm talkin about makin the sockets for the full LED tails like these:

LED lights

Made into the horseshoe shape of the brakelight. I would keep the red housing, but use the euro spec tails and get the hyperwhite LEDs for the turn signal and reverse light.

 
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I was actually talking today with my buddy about taking my old OEM tails appart and putting LEDs in. But I wanna do it like the Audi that has clear light and light up red/amber. I'll use the old OEM's for now and if everything works out well I'll buy TYCs or something and take the clear cover off of those.

 
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Buy the LEDS bulb and take out the LEDS and just use the socket. Connect the socket to the LEDS board w/ wires

 
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can u do that? arent the LEDs soldered in place? i'm gonna be using prolly more than 3 times the LEDs that are in those sockets. I'm not really good with electronics, but i usually do a good job building stuff

 
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i bet you'll have to play around with the resistors a bit to get it right...i plan on using an old computer power supply that spits out 12V 5amp and testing it with that...

 
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good luck. man i have the cordless dremel too.. it runs out of juice fast . maybe one day APC :P or TYC would make some tailights like that for us..

 
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you can take more pride by DIY