HID BACK UP LIGHTS FOR 88 & UP Chevy GMC

[Burning oil]

Leroy, they look good and are very bright. You just have to remember that you are marketing them to a bunch of cheap b*st*rds that run old vehicles.

So don't take it personal.

Hi Leo, I was thinking simularly . Times are tough too. It is an expensive mod (vehicle value wise) on a 88-98 truck as compaired to a new Chevy,ford titan.........

Like with many things with 6.5 owners, demand is born from necessity. The marketing stragety would be to convince everyone their current lights dont really work at all

I'd trade for a chip!

When you see the difference then it is like the stock lights never did work.
Don't need a chip. Im selling the 94 in the classifieds. What else you got?

My concern is how to get them to attach in the currentl location as I have the aftermarket units now that aren't 315X but more like a larger version of the 194 bulb sockets for the front side markers. Do the bulbs come out of the aluminum or Aluminium (sic) adapter that appears to twist lock into place on the OEM 315X fittings? meaning, in adapting the existing lenses, will I have to allow for the ability to pull the aluminum adaptor off or simply twist to remove the harness and bulb like I do know (as shown in my earlier post). If the bulbs do pull through the aluminium adapters, then it would seem that all I have to do is drill out the existing hole from .6" dia. where it is now (effectively destroying the ability to go back to the old bulbs) to .75" and figure a means of securing the aluminum adaptors of the HID bulbs to the plastic. Some sort of epoxy I guess.

OK I broke out my set of calipers too. For your lights I believe I could make them work, but it is close.
Ill make you this offer: if you still have your old taillights, put them back in for a couple days. Send me your LEDs and I will try to fit my kit on it. I will not permently modify your lens in any way, it will be completly reversible. I will even pay the shipping both ways.

 

[buddy]

I may buy a set in the near future, if I get the rest of my mods done. It really does look like a good product, and I agree the stock backup lights are only useful if its pitch black and they dont go far.

 

[JMJNet]

Leroy, I am not sure if you can market it with the D-max crowd? They spend upward of $40K for their truck. This mods is only a fraction of their price.

It is a great mod. It will catch up with this crowd eventually.

 

[Burning oil]

I may buy a set in the near future, if I get the rest of my mods done. It really does look like a good product, and I agree the stock backup lights are only useful if its pitch black and they dont go far.

Thanks buddy, let me know. What kind of mods you into now?

Leroy, I am not sure if you can market it with the D-max crowd? They spend upward of $40K for their truck. This mods is only a fraction of their price.

It is a great mod. It will catch up with this crowd eventually.

I've sold a couple to DMAX trucks (doing another in 2 weeks). James had a great idea and that was to use them inplace of the DRL on the 99-07 trucks.
This kit will basicaly work on 73-11, so the 6.2 crowd can use them also. Any socket that has a 3157 size bulb or the socket is 3/4" dia.

 

[Paveltolz]

Thanks for the offer Leroy, very generous offer and I'd take it up in heart beat. Unfortunately I gave away the stockers to another member in need a couple of years ago. I'll keep my eyes open for an option though se we can give this a try as I'm intrigued, very intrigued.

 

[OrionThade]

Thanks for the offer Leroy, very generous offer and I'd take it up in heart beat. Unfortunately I gave away the stockers to another member in need a couple of years ago. I'll keep my eyes open for an option though se we can give this a try as I'm intrigued, very intrigued.

My rig is going to be out of commission for at least another month. I'm happy to pull my stockers and loan them to you if you want to look into this. (I'm just north of you in SL.) I'm very curious, too.

 

[Paveltolz]

My rig is going to be out of commission for at least another month. I'm happy to pull my stockers and loan them to you if you want to look into this. (I'm just north of you in SL.) I'm very curious, too.

That would be great, especially to learn of and meet a local TTS member. PM sent and thanks.

Leroy, we may get the answer on this questions sooner than I thought.

 

[Burning oil]

My rig is going to be out of commission for at least another month. I'm happy to pull my stockers and loan them to you if you want to look into this. (I'm just north of you in SL.) I'm very curious, too.

Welcome to the forums and I thank you for the offer to help another member.

That would be great, especially to learn of and meet a local TTS member. PM sent and thanks.

Leroy, we may get the answer on this questions sooner than I thought.

That is awesome for Orion Thade (don't know your name) to step up and help. :thumbsup:

 

[OrionThade]

Paveltoz and I should be meeting up tomorrow sometime. Still ironing out the details, but I'm excited to see how this works out. I have been eyeballing the same tail lights (but black, rather than chrome/silver) and I like this HID kit. It will be cool to see how well this works out.

 

[Burning oil]

Paveltoz and I should be meeting up tomorrow sometime. Still ironing out the details, but I'm excited to see how this works out. I have been eyeballing the same tail lights (but black, rather than chrome/silver) and I like this HID kit. It will be cool to see how well this works out.

I bought mine here http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1988...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
Check out his other lights if you don't like these. I have been very happy with mine and these paticular light are better suited to the HID back up light conversion because of the 3157 bulb.

 

[Paveltolz]

Those lights are about 1/3 of what I paid for mine.

To be sure I'm reading this all correctly:
The kit is $199 without having to aquire the circuit boards or
$30 for the aluminium adaptors sans HIDs and wiring?

 

[Burning oil]

The kit you need because you don't have the factory style lights is $199
The adapters by themselves are $30.

 

[Paveltolz]

The kit you need because you don't have the factory style lights is $199
The adapters by themselves are $30.

:thumbsup: $199 it is and what I was planning on.
:???:I just wanted to make sure my reading comprehension skills were better than my spelling and typing.

OrionThade and I are linking up at my place tomorrow. We're going to wring out this ATT a little bit; exchange truck stories and project plans as well as swapping out the lights. Should be entertaining. I'll get mine in the mail to you Monday.

Take a look and let me know the verdict and I'll make the decision to pull the trigger based on your recommendations.

 

[Burning oil]

Sounds like it all came together. Looking forward to the job. Im doing an install on an 2011 F350 this weekend too.
Leroy

 

[Matt Bachand]

Leroy these may be extremely useful to the Plowing crowd. I'd push marketing there a little. We love to see whats behind us when we back up fast and often.

I'm going to mention this to a guy on my plow route that has a 02 D-Max, I think he asked me about brighter bulbs before.

I have Utility body, I wired up switchable extra lights (round rubber style) so I'm out, But he may bite.

 

[Burning oil]

Thanks Matt, I appreciate that. I would think they are very useful on a plow, emergency vehicles, night crew highway work trucks........???

 

[Burning oil]

Got the lights in from Paul. Looks like a very easy conversion without needing to modifiy the lens. That means you can remove my adaptors if you ever wanted to and put the stock bulbs back in.

 

[Rodd]

Leroy,

I recently started noticing the Audi SUV head lights and tail lights with what I think are nid lights or something like that. They basically have about 6 or so small bulbs that are in a design similar to this /--- ---\ Obviously the corners meet up. I was wondering if they make something like those for our head lights.

 

[Burning oil]

Leroy,

I recently started noticing the Audi SUV head lights and tail lights with what I think are nid lights or something like that. They basically have about 6 or so small bulbs that are in a design similar to this /--- ---\ Obviously the corners meet up. I was wondering if they make something like those for our head lights.

I've seen a bunch of Audi's and the new SUV, but can't recall what you are discribing. Since I don't know what model you saw could you google it and see if you can post a picture/link.

 

[Burning oil]

Got pauls lights done!!

Picture shows HID on left side. The right side is a 3157 in a LED housing and a crystal clear lens, so it is brighter than most anyway. You can still see a huge difference in the two.

Both HID's burning in this shot.

Before. Stock lights in reverse. (About 40' from house) It was actualy much much darker than the picture is showing. I think the camera can see better in the dark, but with the naked eye you could not see very much at all.

After. With HID's (same distance) notice how much light is cast to the sides (see bushes) right where you need it for backing up.

Ground is illuminated very well. I can even see my little brown dog. Not a very good picture (shaking), but you can see a big difference.