Yeah. Agreed but it just looks so sick. I’ve been running it like this since taking delivery and I’ve yet to run into any issues. Have not been pulled over nor honked by anyone.I like how it looks, but I'm in the "more light is better" camp. I'm sure it will be fine like that under normal circumstances.
So weird, I did this with mine, worked fine with the stock bulbs, ordered these cheapies from Amazon. Soon as they're plugged in, it shuts off the outer rope led. Soon as I put back the normal goes back on. I don't get it. Only thing I do differently, I don't cut or tape the contacts like you guys, I just bend them flat so they don't make contact and can go back to normal. Works with all the other bulbs
That’s crazy! You said you bent… is it making contact with another terminal that causing a short??So weird, I did this with mine, worked fine with the stock bulbs, ordered these cheapies from Amazon. Soon as they're plugged in, it shuts off the outer rope led. Soon as I put back the normal goes back on. I don't get it. Only thing I do differently, I don't cut or tape the contacts like you guys, I just bend them flat so they don't make contact and can go back to normal. Works with all the other bulbs
Right in front of me. Took out both reverse bulbs from both housings, need to snip I tiny nub off the side to get to fit. Boom, same thing achieved. Then I knew, could just buy any cheap single filament bulbs instead of this snipping contact craziness. Though I did find out, once I have a single filament to look at, then you can take a dual, like the stock bulbs in question that need to be modified, and mimick what those contacts look like, it's actually one on either side opposite of each other need to be blocked. Only instead of cutting them, which is permanently ruining them if it's wrong, or want to switch back. Or electric tape? Which I can't believe even works these are very right spaces here. Just take needle nose, or a knife and bend the contact upwards to lay flat, then could always be undone for whatever reasons. Works great!
Nice. I completely cut it off. Go big go home and spend laterSo couple of things I'd like to add to this. So like someone said, the original YouTube vid was very confusing, ended up ruining a couple bulbs from lack of description of which contact to cut. Way I figured it out... Realized it needs to be basically a single filament bulb in the dual filament housing to achieve this look. Where could I get a single filament to try this out?
I found the video a bit confusing. So, do the brake and turn lights normally? He talks about how the LED trim around the rears comes on with the DRLs but I don't recall that any part of the rear lighting system is part of the DRLs. I'm just not sure what he's trying to accomplish. Maybe someone here can explain it to me.
Sure. I tried uploading a video but I gave up.
Thank you for your patient and informative response. I'll be sure to look back at your earlier posts.
The Yorkims worked perfectly. It might be the LED bulbs you used. A few years ago, I bought a cheap, off brand set of LED amber turn signal bulbs for my older Mustang that claimed to be "error free canbus" with no hyperflash. Whatever chip they put in there caused my hazard flashers to blink whenever I turned on a turn signal... it was really weird. I returned them for a refund, got a different brand, and solved the hyperflash with a new signal flasher (throwback to simpler times).
Sorry to heard but this is part of the precession of learning new mods.
