Has anyone put HID's in place of their reverse lights? If so, help me out. Haha

 

No because by the time you finish reversing the HIDs are warmed up to full light output. It takes to long to be functional in reverse lights. Try LED's!

 

This!
www.superbrightleds.com is the place to go too.
and if you need to look up the bulb number you need, go to http://www.sylvania.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx and look it up

 

Damn. I didn't even consider that logic. Good call. Imma check out that site and see what I can find. I'm trying to add a different look to my car. Plus, my windows are tinted really, REALLY dark and it's hard to see. Lol

 

Do you want to blind the people behind you with the reverse lihts in hids? But yea go led much better option. I go ebay because its cheaper but alot of people on alot of forums say brightleds.com so do what u want but no hids bro

 

The best PnP reverse lights have about 275 max lumens. Quite a few places carry them. The older ones have the Cree XR-E and the newer models use the cheaper XP-E, but both have roughly the same brightness.

The PnP "bulbs" that are covered with LED's are pretty crummy. Either get the Cree high power models or build your own.

My old reverse lights used the Luminus SST-50 1200 lumen LED's (2400 lumen combined).

 

Holy crap! Now that IS bright!

 

so exactly what should be google-searched to find this LED..

 

I am curious myself. Those would be perfect for my DRL's on my Lexus.

 

They were far too bright, so later I went back and modified it with a dimmer. 50% brightness (~1000 lumen) is about where I kept it most of the time.

The Cree bulbs are made in China and are sold by several vendors under different names. They usually advertise "Cree 5W", so I'd search that term along with the bulb number (1156, 9006, 7440, etc...).

jlclighting.com, autolumination.com, and v-leds.com are a few places that carry them.

If you were asking about the Luminus LED, they can be purchased from Mouser.com or Avnet.com. They only sell the bare emitter, so you'll have to find a heatsink and constant current driver to make it all work.

There are several alternatives to the SST-50. The Cree XM-L and MC-E, Osram Ostar and the Seoul P7 are just a few of them.

The Cree PnP bulbs are your best bet, although many vendors discourage constant use. Especially in the day time when it's hot. Power LED's produce a lot of heat and quickly degrade and/or fail if the temperature of the heatsink isn't kept to a reasonable level.

There have been many posts on the Lexus and Infiniti forums where members have complained about melted housings and flickering/failing bulbs. It's usually when they're used as DRL's. If used as reverse lights or turn signals, they should be fine. They're not on long enough to get hot.

 

I have some REALLY bright reverse lights for you!! Check out my thread in the marketplace section! I sell for all vehicles!

 

Blazin SI, that looks good man!

 

I sell these on here for a really good price! They are light fog lights when you back up!

 

any place you would recommend on where i can learn to make ones like this?