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has anyone ever used LED versions of these for there Altezza tails and if so do they work good? Only reason i ask is because the bulbs mount through the bottom of the tail wich means since the LED do not illuminate 360 degrees like i normal bulb i would think that they will just shine straight up and not out

Right, the bulbs are crap, their brightness is half of a normal bulb.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by RaspMetalicMX3SE:
has anyone ever used LED versions of these for there Altezza tails and if so do they work good? Only reason i ask is because the bulbs mount through the bottom of the tail wich means since the LED do not illuminate 360 degrees like i normal bulb i would think that they will just shine straight up and not out<hr></blockquote><p>The only thing I would use them for is sidemarkers and front turn signals. Reason being is because of the flutted lense in front of them.<p>Either way, they're still illegal since they only have about 160 degrees of light spread.<p>If you want LED taillights, you can get LED boards with about 30-60 LEDs on them. You'd have to retro-fit them in, but they'd be legal.<p>~A<p>[ September 16, 2003: Message edited by: Aiden ]</p>

Oh please do not get those LED screw-in bulbs with 6-8 LED's in them. You need about 30-50 regular LED's to have equal brightness of a regular 21w bulb. Do not waste your money.

most of them have like 12- 15 LED's on them and since i dont think anyof you have tried them or seen them light i think i'll buy one and test the brightness and if i dont like it i'll bring it back

I just replaced all my bubls with PIAA Xtreme whites, They are the brightest bulbs I've seen. They don't make much of a difference in the red parts of the altezzas, but in the the signals and sidemarkers the difference is amazing.