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Originally Posted by seifrob
I would warn from excessive LED use instead of bulbs. Interier is fine, but brake light domes, rear lights domes and turn indicator light domes are designed for bulbs with respect to direction, intensity and colour of light. LEDs usually emit light only in narrov beam, not 180 degrees like regular bulb. If you retrofit bulb in your light with LEDs, you can easily make your signals invisible (at least from certain angles).
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I put LEDs all around my suburban and it is much more visible than with regular bulbs. But older style brake light houseing like mine have lots of little prisms molded into the lenes which scatters the light very well.
Newer vehicles with non light scattering lenses may have this problem.
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