CREE LED Reverse lights.

[McGherkin]

Ok, I'll try and explain it.

I've taken this picture in the worst possible conditions - with the sun shining directly into the reflector. You'd barely be able to see a conventional bulb as the sunlight washes out the reflector.

Now you're seeing the bulb as a blob of white light - what the picture isn't telling you is the intensity of that blob. Once it's bright enough to be registered as white on the camera, it could be ten times brighter and you'd just see the same picture. If you saw the light in real life, you would be able to easily pick it out because it's significantly brighter than its surroundings. Also in real life you capture the glow around it.

It's like looking at the sun, it's only a small blob in the sky but you'd definitely notice whether it was on or not. As I've said before, nobody who's actually stood there and seen the lights switched on has had any trouble seeing them.

 

[daydotz]

great improvement i was looking into these for my polo as the reverse light is poor

 

[Pistachio]

I might give these a go

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?index=0&sbk=1&nav=SEARCH&itemId=350685385897

I can 100% guarantee they will be pish

 

[Kyle 86]

I can 100% guarantee they will be pish

These will be shite then :-(

 

[kamalao]

I thought i was the only crazy that cared about this... LOOOOL

Here´s my cree reverse lights!
1xcree+16xSMD

Before:

After:

Diferences (cree on the left):

On the floor:

On the wall:
Before:

After:

Finally all set:

After i upgrated to 10xcree... :evil:

 

[chockley99]

Think I might be onto something here. There's quite a few people who I've shown these to and they've all been impressed.

I originally bought these bulbs because I wanted a decent upgrade to the standard bulbs.

They are actually very good, could be a popular mod. Decent range and visibility day or night.

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I tested the bulbs to see what the range was, as you can('t really, due to the camera) see below, the distance to the berm is 20m, the tree behind (which to the human eye was still clearly illuminated) is another ~10m.
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Click the below images to see the eBay link for that bulb. There are 3 colours available for the surrounds.

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I'm definitely interested in getting some of these now, cheers for the link mate.

It's not even the brightness aspect for me, it's makes the car look alot newer and cleaner as alot of new cars have LED reverse lights now.

I love the look, regardless of how bright they are!

 

[Ben]

Are these bulbs still the go to for reverse lights?