LED taillights - Thoughts?
#347
eBay and Amazon have LED Tail-Lights for $300-$450. I paid $350 for mine on Amazon and never had a problem with them, they look great and were plug and play.
Last edited by stephan79; 01-15-2012 at 01:58 AM.
#348
I got the all clears smoke version (not sure if it's the same company) for Christmas... I went ahead and got the smoked third brake light in led as well... I'm not going to lie, I'm nervous how it will look, but it might look really good... Silver gt3
#350
I bought my set on Amazon and:
1. They arrived broken. Packaging was terrible, but since I live overseas, I elected to fix them (broken corners and some black plastic tabs broke off the backs) because shipping them back was quite expensive, plus I used a freight forwarder originally, and I have no idea if it was amazon's fault or the freight forwarder's fault.
2. The plugs that go into the OEM bulb sockets are extremely low quality. The leads (two little bumps on the plugs) that are supposed to touch the contacts were almost flat, making the lights work intermittently. Had to directly wire two of the LED lights which meant splicing into the $198 OEM Porsche tail light harness.
3. The lights themselves are unbelievably low quality, their only redeeming quality is that from the outside, to the layman, they don't LOOK low quality.
Despite having a 2002, I experiencing no problems with hyper-blinking signals, though I did blow a fuse because of the horribly low quality connecters included with the kit. After hard wiring the light with the worst connectors, the fuse never blew again.
Would I buy them again? Yeah, I guess so. They do look better than the OEM lights.
1. They arrived broken. Packaging was terrible, but since I live overseas, I elected to fix them (broken corners and some black plastic tabs broke off the backs) because shipping them back was quite expensive, plus I used a freight forwarder originally, and I have no idea if it was amazon's fault or the freight forwarder's fault.
2. The plugs that go into the OEM bulb sockets are extremely low quality. The leads (two little bumps on the plugs) that are supposed to touch the contacts were almost flat, making the lights work intermittently. Had to directly wire two of the LED lights which meant splicing into the $198 OEM Porsche tail light harness.
3. The lights themselves are unbelievably low quality, their only redeeming quality is that from the outside, to the layman, they don't LOOK low quality.
Despite having a 2002, I experiencing no problems with hyper-blinking signals, though I did blow a fuse because of the horribly low quality connecters included with the kit. After hard wiring the light with the worst connectors, the fuse never blew again.
Would I buy them again? Yeah, I guess so. They do look better than the OEM lights.
#351
Damn you own a 2002 Porsche in Korea? How much taxes did you pay or how much in total for the car?
I went there over 10 years ago and import taxes on cars were crazy back then.
It was like $50k to own a Ford Taurus there...LOL
I went there over 10 years ago and import taxes on cars were crazy back then.
It was like $50k to own a Ford Taurus there...LOL
#353
@alpine003 : I paid only standard taxes on it (something like $450 or so) because I bought it second hand locally. The original owner paid the insane import taxes, as the car was bought new in Japan and imported to Korea from there. Had practically no kilometers on it when I picked it up. Dealer was desperate to get rid of it because nearly no one can drive a manual transmission here. Of the 15-20 996's I looked at, this was the ONLY manual transmission.
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