Has anyone upgraded their tail light / brake light bulbs to something brighter? Or wired in an extra LED tail/brake light?
The stock bulbs are a bit dull IMO and I'd like to have a little something extra to make every effort to stop the car behind me. I see some cheapo LED tail lights on amazon I could wire up at the bottom of my license plate but wondering what anyone else has done. An upgrade to the stock tail light would be ideal.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YNZ97DF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1EQP448COWZL4&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SLLK44G/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A3I5DUI6YQ6S3O&th=1
Here is a company I've bought from but not for the FJ.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/
For my 6V GN400 they did not have bulbs and the Amazon cheapies had a very short life on my non-counterbalanced single. I ended up drilling a couple holes in the base and potting the electronics with shoo goo and that seems to increase reliability.
Sylvania led 1157s for the win
Look at the LED strip added below your license plate from Eaglelights.com
https://www.eaglelights.com/products/eagle-lights-auxiliary-license-plate-running-and-strobing-brake-light
Also available on Amazon
Thanks Johnny and Pat I'll try out both, the more attention I get from the driver behind me when I'm braking the better
Here was my solution to an LED taillight.
https://fjowners.com/index.php?topic=8545.msg79687#msg79687
Quote from: Dads_FJ on May 26, 2025, 08:49:13 PMHere was my solution to an LED taillight.
https://fjowners.com/index.php?topic=8545.msg79687#msg79687
Clever! I already ordered the silvana bulbs and the extender but this looks like a good option too.
I did some surgery on my back light to slim down the side profile to match the lines of my FJ...I also added LED's at the same time.
https://fjowners.com/index.php?topic=1629.0
Quote from: Pat Conlon on May 27, 2025, 12:22:27 PMI did some surgery on my back light to slim down the side profile to match the lines of my FJ...I also added LED's at the same time.
https://fjowners.com/index.php?topic=1629.0
wow that looks great and if I didn't know the bike and saw that I would think it was stock, those are the best mods IMO, the ones that still look stock unless you know better.
Pat, I couldn't agree more on our bikes beautiful shape!
I too really dig the slim tail light with that led mod you did :hi:
Thanks guys!
I have a set of these on both of my FJ's.
https://hyperlites.com/
Casper has the smaller set with running lights. The Streetfighter has the larger set with the added turn signal function.
Fred