OEM Euro LED Tail Lights installed....on the whoosh-mobile

[ron@whoosh]

Posted this up in a few placed already

Had these on the site and on the shelf for a while.....got tired of looking at them and wanted to see how difficult the install really would be.
Took about an hour

Similar to the SPEC-D tails, there is a metal stud in the center of the tail lights that needs to be removed - easy
beyond that, you will need (or the way I did this) 4 OEM US tail light harnesses
I used the 2 from the OEM tail lights and purchased 2 from Ford

The harness you'll need to make is double male ended about 10-12" long since the Euro lights have a female connector on the light itself.
There is no re-pinning of any kind. Just solder the same color wires together from 2 harnesses then snap one end into the light and the other into the connector inside the car where you normally would. Easy Part2

 

[Turbo65]

Ron have you had the opportunity to compare directly with the SPEC-D lights, I like them both

 

[ron@whoosh]

Ron have you had the opportunity to compare directly with the SPEC-D lights, I like them both

Yes
To be quite honest
I really like OEM quality I'm a UK parts junkie lol
But for the cost which is over double that of a set of SPEC-D.......I'd probably go with SPEC-D
These are NICE! I'll run them for a while but I may swap them out in the summer for a set of SPEC-D just to try something different.
I'm going to throw on a set of euro headlights today to compliment these ..... pics later

 

[allpurposeben]

How did you remove the metal post? Hacksaw?

 

[ron@whoosh]

How did you remove the metal post? Hacksaw?

no sorry, it simply unscrews - it's reversable

 

[TDavis]

Got any night pics?

Those strips are not LED correct? They're just lite up by a regular bulb behind them?

 

[ron@whoosh]

Got any night pics?

Those strips are not LED correct? They're just lite up by a regular bulb behind them?

I'd have to take one back off to verify but I do believe you are correct in saying the strips are not led but I think the bulb behind it is led
the euro lights are advertised as led tails
I can tell you the turn signal and reverse light bulbs are standard bulbs
when I tested the first light while leaving the drivers side stock, it was noticeably brighter than the stock drivers side

 

[ron@whoosh]

here's a better pic of them illuminated
I'm still going to swap in a set of SPEC-D in the summer but these are waaaaaaaayyyyyyy better than stock