Bright Lights

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Mon Apr 18, 16 5:50 pm

Sure this may have been discussed before... Has anyone used a super bright halogen tail/brake bulb before? Want to get the lights as bright as possible, without melting anything obviously. I'm not interested in LEDs... They are the devils work and don't have the lumen output no matter what they claim!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Apr 18, 16 5:53 pm

Articles on here, Steve did one.

H4's and relays to protect the old wiring.

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Mon Apr 18, 16 5:57 pm

Rear lights Pete...

latil · Post by **latil** » Mon Apr 18, 16 6:17 pm

Here's a good little 10 day read

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/made

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Mon Apr 18, 16 6:35 pm

latil wrote:Here's a good little 10 day read

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/made

They lost me at 'Statutory"

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Apr 18, 16 6:38 pm

My apologies, scan reading.

Ironically, there IS a company called "Brightlights" that does Rear LED conversions....I'll get me coat...........

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Mon Apr 18, 16 7:06 pm

Pete wrote:My apologies, scan reading.

Ironically, there IS a company called "Brightlights" that does Rear LED conversions....I'll get me coat...........

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Mon Apr 18, 16 8:24 pm

http://www.brightlight-customs.co.uk

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Mon Apr 18, 16 8:25 pm

http://www.brightlight-customs.co.uk

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Apr 19, 16 11:20 am

Don't know of brighter conventional stop and tail bulbs, you'd have to be careful anyway because of heat possibly melting stuff. There might be something to gain in stripping the lights, cleaning the reflectors and covering them in a bright foil if they are dull? The reflectors play as big a part in how bright a light is as the bulb does IMO.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Tue Apr 19, 16 11:22 am

spray the inside reflector of your tail lights gloss white.

shiny makes a bright point

gloss white fills the lens with a uniform bright glow

also works very well if you do the old hot rod MOT failure blue dot in the lens

makes the rears purple

Dave

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Tue Apr 19, 16 12:58 pm

I took the light fittings out cleaned them and and have spray the interiors in a 'chrome' silver... Funnily enough I did think that white might be better... But yes Blue I don't want to melt anything... Putting them back in later so will see if they po a little better. Also I've found a 70s third brake light for the rear parcel... Anything to keep twats behind me informed

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Tue Apr 19, 16 4:48 pm

heres some pics. now i have to wait until dark to see if they are better... for some reason the order of the shots has been reversed

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Wed Apr 20, 16 9:37 am

you can also polish the lenses with toothpaste

slightly abrasive makes them look like new

Dave

Prothed · Post by **Prothed** » Wed Apr 20, 16 10:16 am

Or T-Cut (try it out on one edge first to see the effect).

They sell stuff for cleaning plastic headlights that works well.