brigher tail lights

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Printed Date: May 04, 2025 at 6:39 PM

Topic: brigher tail lights

Posted By: mazzasec
Subject: brigher tail lights
Date Posted: November 28, 2007 at 8:38 PM

Well i recently just got my tail lights smoked and there pretty dark. Just wondering if anyone knows if they make brighter bulds for tail lights that would be brighter then stock. Maybe LED or HID tail lights ? if there is such a thing

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Posted By: jmelton86
Date Posted: November 28, 2007 at 9:27 PM

What is the year, make, and model of your car?

There may be a bulb with a higher candlepower rating = brighter.

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2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator
DDX470HD GTO14001 GTO1014D (x3)
Big3 in 1/0G
1/0G to GTO14001

Posted By: mazzasec
Date Posted: November 29, 2007 at 9:24 AM

04 ford explorer XLS

Posted By: mazzasec
Date Posted: November 29, 2007 at 9:25 AM

Ive been doing alot of looking but cant find much so if anyone can help that be great!

Posted By: jmelton86
Date Posted: November 29, 2007 at 6:32 PM

Well, your Explorer takes 3157 bulbs for the tail/stoplamps. 3157's are the same but brighter than 3057's.

No luck with this (would be) easy solution. If your Explorer used 3057's then you could replace them with 3157's and get a bit more brightness from them. Too bad, though.

That's all i've got for ya, sorry I couldn't have helped...

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2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator
DDX470HD GTO14001 GTO1014D (x3)
Big3 in 1/0G
1/0G to GTO14001

Posted By: mazzasec
Date Posted: November 29, 2007 at 9:26 PM

damn so i dont really got any other options?

Posted By: jmelton86
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 10:03 PM

My bad, I shoud've already stated that you can get 3157 led lights. Just search for them online.

If your lenses are red (then smoked) you can get white ones. If the lenses are clear, you'll need red ones.

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2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator
DDX470HD GTO14001 GTO1014D (x3)
Big3 in 1/0G
1/0G to GTO14001

Posted By: focusedenergy
Date Posted: January 22, 2008 at 12:00 AM

^^^
Stay with the red on both cases.... white puts less red light wavelength which will appear dimmer than using red led.... they usually put around the same lumen's out. The lens (if red) just filters out non red light, which is fine for red led's.

Posted By: serge1er
Date Posted: March 31, 2008 at 7:02 PM

hey checked on ebay, they have brighter bulbs than stock ones