Spyder LED taillights and Diesel LED backup bulbs

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Been wanting to upgrade the tail lights for a while and finally pulled the trigger. These aren’t the standard Spyder LED tail lights, these are the “neon tube” version which I think look a lot nicer. And I figured why not upgrade the reverse lights at the same time. I was being bombarded with ads for the Diesel LEDs and I figured why not. They are no joke. They are by far the brightest reverse lights in a standard housing I have ever seen. They’re like headlights. I also grabbed their LED license plate lights.

The install was super easy. Just plug the cable coming out of the back of the new tail lights into the original socket and then install the socket in the new housing. That’s it. Back up lightbulbs work the same way. The only difference is the back up light bulbs use a rubber grommet to mount them to allow you infinite adjustability to get the angle right. So I just wrapped the socket plug with electrical tape for moisture proofing.

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Those tails look very bright. How bright are they during the day without the headlights on?
 
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Those tails look very bright. How bright are they during the day without the headlights on?

Do you mean just as Brake lights? I can take a pic.
 

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Had these on my truck with the smoked lens. Busted one ordered another set lol. With the smoked lens reverse light suck but it was stock may upgrade when the new ones get here

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Did you get any error messages or hyper flashing?

Nope. They come with built in resistors. Function just like stock. Didn't even have to change the settings in AlfaOBD.
 

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Those tails look very bright. How bright are they during the day without the headlights on?
As bright as if not brighter than the factory LEDs, the tube light running portion is super bright too. They are the best OEM looking tails in my opinion.

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Been wanting to upgrade the tail lights for a while and finally pulled the trigger. These aren’t the standard Spyder LED tail lights, these are the “neon tube” version which I think look a lot nicer. And I figured why not upgrade the reverse lights at the same time. I was being bombarded with ads for the Diesel LEDs and I figured why not. They are no joke. They are by far the brightest reverse lights in a standard housing I have ever seen. They’re like headlights. I also grabbed their LED license plate lights.

The install was super easy. Just plug the cable coming out of the back of the new tail lights into the original socket and then install the socket in the new housing. That’s it. Back up lightbulbs work the same way. The only difference is the back up light bulbs use a rubber grommet to mount them to allow you infinite adjustability to get the angle right. So I just wrapped the socket plug with electrical tape for moisture proofing.

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They look great and super bright.
 

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You must have gotten lucky then. I have spyder LED tails versions for my LED equipped sport and I get errors and hyperflash on the turn signals.
 

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You must have gotten lucky then. I have spyder LED tails versions for my LED equipped sport and I get errors and hyperflash on the turn signals.
Are you sure you got the right version? Sure you did but they may have sent you the wrong ones?

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Are you sure you got the right version? Sure you did but they may have sent you the wrong ones?

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I went thru 2 version, and confirmed with them over the phone that I bought the proper LED versions for my truck.
 

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yup- all over that up and down alpha
 

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