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Sportback Tail lights

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:53 am
by JohnoFrost
Does anyone here know how to retrofit LED's? for taillights? I am willing to use my tail lights as a demo!

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:34 am
by SIX
Nope I ended up pin striping mine :D

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:41 am
by MRWOLF
There is a topic somewhere about it...
There is member (evil.sportsback) that is doing a tint overlay with different ideas for us Sportsback drivers... If you want shoot him a PM... Also he has a Facebook page: CAD (Don't remember the Acroynums) but I know he's on fb

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:46 am
by Mitch
Evil.ralliart is doing the vinyl overlays for the sportsback tail light

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:51 pm
by Tin_Pusher
Does anyone here know how to retrofit LED's? for taillights? I am willing to use my tail lights as a demo!
I think what you are asking about is replacing the stock bulbs with LEDs or similar to get additional brightness.

I've tried a few different types, ones from Jaycar and a couple of types sold on ebay and have gone back to the stock ones because the LED types I tried either made little or no improvement.

The problem is that the sportback uses different bulbs from the sedan (at least in the MY10 version - I'm not sure about later models). The bulbs used are much shorter than the ones in the sedan, so the available options are limited.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:40 pm
by JohnoFrost
I am looking for something similar to this:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Black-LED-Ta ... b4d&_uhb=1

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:58 pm
by itsagrantos
JohnoFrost wrote:I am looking for something similar to this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Black-LED-Ta ... b4d&_uhb=1


They just dont exist mate.

Hopefully someone brings something out soon, im just not holding my breath.

I am considering doing a night shade treatment this weekens.