Funkdawg

I've been searching for tail lights for my '13 F150 and I haven't been able to find a tail light similar to stock but with amber turn signals instead of red.

Anyone know of a company that makes this? Tried Recon but didn't see any on their site.

Cheers!

alsatropine

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Are amber turn signals in the back dot approved?

Azuri

Some manufactures use amber turn signals in the tail lights some earlier model year F150s have them.

OP there are no amber ones for the current generation of F150s including aftermarket ones unless there is some obscure manufacture that makes one. Check E-bay you'll see there are none there either for 2009-2013 MY.

alsatropine

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I remember them being on earlier model fords, but haven't really seen any amber turn lights for a while. I just remember trying to xhange my fronts to whites and was told it wasn't DOT approved and I could get a ticket. Our ambulances have amber directional turn signals but the red blinks with it.

Azuri

"Turn signal colour

Until the early 1960s, most front turn signals worldwide emitted white light and most rear turn signals emitted red. Amber front turn signals were voluntarily adopted by the auto industry in the USA for most vehicles beginning in the 1963 model year,[51][52] though the advent of amber signals was accompanied by legal stumbles in some states[53] and front turn signals were still legally permitted to emit white light until http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Motor_Vehicle_Safety_Standard_108 took effect for the 1968 model year, whereupon amber became the only permissible front turn signal colour. Presently, almost all countries outside of the United States require that all front, side and rear turn signals produce amber light. In Canada and the US the rear signals may be amber or red. American regulators and other proponents of red rear turn signals have historically asserted there is no proven safety benefit to amber signals, though it has been recognized since the 1960s that amber turn signals are more quickly spotted than red ones.[54][55][56] International proponents of amber rear signals say they are more easily discernible as turn signals,[57] and U.S. studies in the early 1990s demonstrated improvements in the speed and accuracy of following drivers' reaction to stop lamps when the turn signals were amber rather than red.[57][58][59][60][61] A 2008 U.S. study by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_Traffic_Safety_Administration (NHTSA) suggests vehicles with amber rear signals rather than red ones are up to 28% less likely to be involved in certain kinds of collisions,[62] and a 2009 NHTSA study determined there is a significant overall safety benefit to amber rather than red rear turn signals.[63]
There is some evidence that turn signals with colourless clear lenses and amber bulbs may be less conspicuous in bright sunlight than those with amber lenses and colourless bulbs.[64]"

alsatropine

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Wow. Thats pretty informative. Thanks for enlightening me!

Azuri

Haha no problem Wikipedia's are crazy informative on any subject you can dream of.

Funkdawg

Thanks for the replies folks.

Just call me Sean

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You would have to rewire the lights to change a red blinker to amber. It's not just plug and play.