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Re: (ET) ET Headlights

Slightly OT, please forgive...  :)

Philips makes a great red LED 1157 bulb replacement - they call it 
"X-treme Vision LED".  You can google "Philips 1157 LED (P21/5)".  I think 
their part number is 12899RX2.

I put a pair on my '62 T-Bird and was very pleased with the improvement.  
Unfortunately they don't yet offer an equivalent amber bulb.

Steve

  
On Feb 27, 2016, at 11:12 PM, David Roden <etpost drmm net> wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2016 at 21:03, Steve Welch wrote:
> 
>> I'd say brightness is slightly improved over the standard incandescent,
>> but not by a huge amount.  Probably some of the improvement may be due
>> to the colder light quality, but there may be some increase in absolute
>> brightness.  
> 
> Let's hope that they at least last longer - and stay at full brightness 
> longer - than incandescents.
> 
> Every few months I look (mostly at Superbrightleds, because they're one 
> of 
> the few operations I trust) to see if I can get retrofit LEDs for backup 
> lights that will definitely out-illuminate the incandescents in my car.  
> So 
> far, none of them has been rated as high in lumen output as the 
> incandescents they would replace.
> 
> I did swap the taillamps, parking lamps, and license lamps for LEDs, 
> because 
> I got tired of changing burned-out incandescents.  (Why is it that 
> factory 
> bulbs last for years, and replacements last for months?) The LEDs are 
> adequate, but noticeably dimmer than the incandescents they replaced.
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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