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Bright Lights
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 5:50 pm
by lough3969
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!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 5:53 pm
by Pete
Articles on here, Steve did one.
H4's and relays to protect the old wiring.
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 5:57 pm
by lough3969
Rear lights Pete...
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 6:17 pm
by latil
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 6:35 pm
by lough3969
They lost me at 'Statutory"
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 6:38 pm
by Pete
My apologies, scan reading.
Ironically, there IS a company called "Brightlights" that does Rear LED conversions....I'll get me coat...........
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 7:06 pm
by lough3969
Pete wrote:My apologies, scan reading.
Ironically, there IS a company called "Brightlights" that does Rear LED conversions....I'll get me coat...........
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 8:24 pm
by Bryan
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 8:25 pm
by Bryan
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 16 11:20 am
by Blue
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 16 11:22 am
by Dave999
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
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 16 12:58 pm
by lough3969
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
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 16 4:48 pm
by lough3969
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
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 16 9:37 am
by Dave999
you can also polish the lenses with toothpaste
slightly abrasive makes them look like new
Dave
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 16 10:16 am
by Prothed
Or T-Cut (try it out on one edge first to see the effect).
They sell stuff for cleaning plastic headlights that works well.
