New Exterior Lights / LEDs

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Got all new exterior Lenses/bulbs/kit in LED.
New headlights and headlight relay kit.
The front parking/tail lights/side markers are sealed LEDs in the lense.
Got new lenses and replacement LED bulbs for the backup lights. (nobody makes a sealed reverse light lense with LEDs )


The taillights and front parking lights use a 1157 adapter.
The sidemarkers are hardwire. 3 wires. ground/parking/turn
parking is a less bright than turn. It looks like turn uses more LEDs.

The rear sidemarkers took an extra minute of thinking to get them to work.
Since the OE is only 2 wire and didnt blink i had to connect parking and ground to the original harness. Then I spliced the third wire for turn (which is a way longer wire on the lense thankfully) to the turn signal wires for the rear.
Yellow on the drivers side and dark green on the passenger side.

I will start on the front sidemarkers and new headlights tomorrow

So far I'm pretty happy with the items. The lenses are all tough plastic and the LEDs are really bright.

The only think I'm not thrilled with is the taillight gaskets i bought. They are neoprene and way thinner and flimsier than the OE gasket that came out. I think if I lived somewhere with any rain I would have siliconed the lense since LEDs cant be replaced I shouldn't have to ever take it off.

Will get pics of them installed tomorrow.