Daytime running light/Led blinkers - is there any middle ground

[piotrek]

14 hours ago, Hasher said:

...I don't  know how relevant it is to you, or indeed how true it is, but I read on another UK forum that it's not legal to fit LED bulbs into fittings designed for incandescent bulbs.

Hmm... know of no such law on this side of big water. Very popular mod on bikes and cars alike. LED bulbs generally draw less and run cooler. These bulbs are meant to fit a 7443 socket. Heat on LED bulbs will be generated at the base (driver circuits), but still outside the socket cavity. If you're talking indicator flash rate... then maybe hyper-flashing indicators will attract LEO's attention. LED flasher relay will fix that.

[Hasher]

I saw it on a car forum here in the UK and have no idea why it may be. Thanks for the suggestion regarding the relay. I already have one as I thought it was a neater solution than the in line resistors

[Dave76]

10 hours ago, Hasher said:

I saw it on a car forum here in the UK and have no idea why it may be. Thanks for the suggestion regarding the relay. I already have one as I thought it was a neater solution than the in line resistors

I think you may run into problems when changing headlight bulbs to LED due to beam pattern issues. Don't think there's any issue changing indicator bulbs to LED.

[skipperT]

Guys - the FJ and MT Tracers have LED headlamps from the factory. Not sure what the debate is about here?

-Skip

Edited April 17, 2020 by skipperT
Oh, turn signal lamps. Got it