cargo/ third brake lights

[Mike Tonon]

Are these ones junk?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...0291966357&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

[02RangerXLT]

Keep searching, they charge you up the butt for shipping... Have you looked at LMC (www.lmctruck.com)'s LED 3rd brake lights?

 

[Mike Tonon]

Keep searching, they charge you up the butt for shipping... Have you looked at LMC (www.lmctruck.com)'s LED 3rd brake lights?

I have a catalog from them, I'll check it out. My oem lense is looking kind of shaby. The clear parts are yellow and craking around the screws and water is getting in there somehow. And I'm told the factory 3rd brake light isn't as easy to see sometimes as the aftermarket led kind.

 

[Mike Tonon]

I just checked the catalog. They want $100 plus shipping for an led aftermarket one and $70 plus shipping for the original one. The led one has blue led's for the cargo light, why would they be blue and not clear? The point of a cargo light is to light up the cargo area to see. How well does a blue light, light up the area?

 

[02RangerXLT]

Compared to your deal on ebay, LMC is expensive... I didn't realize they were that much more expensive at LMC. You could try the ebay one... I'm not sure why they use blue LED's over white LED's, however, I find lights with a blue tint to be easier to see stuff with in dusk or dawn... just personal preference I guess.

Good luck.

 

[02RangerXLT]

I just remembered... what you could do, is make your own. Somewhere on this forum someone added an LED strip to their stock light, looked really good. Just go to a junkyard, and I'm sure they'd give you the whole housing and 3rd brake light for really cheap...

 

[Mike Tonon]

thanks