LED Tail lights?

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Has anybody switched their 1156 or 1157 tail light bulbs to the LED tail lite replacements?

Just wondering. Ebay has some 'interesting' items that look good. Price not considered though.
Anybody?
 
For trailer lights, don't just replace the bulbs; do it right and replace the whole fixture with a sealed LED fixture (and make sure your splices are sealed as well). Replacing just the bulbs does not cure the corrosion problems you may have with the fixture, and the LED bulbs themselves aren't any more water resistant than any other. Replacing the fixture is pretty much permanent.

For interior lights you can replace the bulbs you use the most first.

LED's brighter too, and prices are coming down. Shop around.
 
Yes the prices are coming down. I have some coming to me now. Less than a Buck apiece.

The provider says not to use them where water will get in. Hmmmm, where on any Car made would that be?
Thanks for the Wisdom Willie.
 
I switched to an LED kit from Harbor Freight 4 years ago. I trailer to salt water and previously I was replacing bulbs and cleaning connections every year. With the LED's, haven't had to touch them.
 
Just changed our RV to LED lights. I agree with Willie, change out the lamp assembly, not just the bulbs. But I'd like to add that it isn't just about connections and corrosion. Original fixture was meant to focus based on the filament position in the original bulb. An LED "bulb" probably won't target the lens the same way. A complete LED assembly positions the LEDs for maximum visual "pop."
 
Love YOU, Sister!

Ok, everybody else, now it's out!
 
Ditto on the "focus". LED bulbs are usually made up of many smaller LED's, and a lens made for incandescent bulbs won't focus them in the same way.
 
When we got a new trailer in 2008, it came with LEDs. The trailer will be 4 years old in Jult. No problems with the LED lights.
 
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