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Riverside LED Lights
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Do you already have them or getting a great deal on them? I find the led lights various companies made for the military to be very sub par in the reliability department.
Installation in very straight forward. The hardest part is matching the correct wires up. Which if your number tags are legible then that shouldn't be an issue. They are much brighter and way cooler looking than ordinary incandescent bulbs and housings.
As I said above, my biggest gripe is how expensive and unreliable they are. Unlike a normal housing, when these go out you don't just replace a bulb. You replace the whole unit.
Installation in very straight forward. The hardest part is matching the correct wires up. Which if your number tags are legible then that shouldn't be an issue. They are much brighter and way cooler looking than ordinary incandescent bulbs and housings.
As I said above, my biggest gripe is how expensive and unreliable they are. Unlike a normal housing, when these go out you don't just replace a bulb. You replace the whole unit.
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Riverside tail lights work great as long as you don't care about the blackout function working.
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Correct. Jeepsinker's don't work. But they did work with incandescent housings.
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From my point of view, there is NOT a headlight or taillight made WORTH $100 each, or for that matter not even a pair.
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Don't get me wrong. Many people have the led lights and love them. There's just a growing group of us who have spent a lot of money on them and gotten burned. I will admit I had a particularly bad experience. That being said I won't tell you not to get them. If you do purchase them I certainly hope you don't have any problems. There's a good chance you won't.
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On mine, when the blackout function is selected, the regular brake lights light up. This totally defeats the purpose of the blackout function. Good for backup lights though.
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I just bought/ installing my RIVERSIDE brand you are asking about.
In my opinion they seem good so far. the rear bucket half is a gloss green while the half with the lights are flat OD.
they are very much brighter than the bulbs!!! with a decent angle of visibility, they are brighter than the Trucklight brand and have greater visual angle and more LEDs!
The blackouts are functioning fine, I compared it with the bulbs on one side you can see how much brighter from inside the cab as the reflected lights.
compared to the multi hundred $$$ EA. light .. these are a "steal" and NEW
these have the same visual lenses as the LED headlights and should match better if you get the yellow front signals ( if i didnt have led in front already I woud buy the amber ones as well!
I'd reccomend them myself..
In my opinion they seem good so far. the rear bucket half is a gloss green while the half with the lights are flat OD.
they are very much brighter than the bulbs!!! with a decent angle of visibility, they are brighter than the Trucklight brand and have greater visual angle and more LEDs!
The blackouts are functioning fine, I compared it with the bulbs on one side you can see how much brighter from inside the cab as the reflected lights.
compared to the multi hundred $$$ EA. light .. these are a "steal" and NEW
these have the same visual lenses as the LED headlights and should match better if you get the yellow front signals ( if i didnt have led in front already I woud buy the amber ones as well!
I'd reccomend them myself..