Blakeyates

I recently purchased a 2013 F-150 Fx4. The previous owner had changed out all of the lights with LED's. There are multiple lights flickering on the truck. The front-right dome light, back cab light and the light underneath the rear view mirror. I do not know much about these bulbs but I wasn't sure if it was a fuse or what.

Does anyone have any insight on this type of issue? Should I change the bulbs or are they not grounded properly?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

cmbezln

I imagine he did what most people do and used really crappy LEDs, so chances are they're just bad bulbs.

Blakeyates

That's what I was thinking. I was going to go ahead and order the replacements but I have no clue what to order. Is there any resource out there that can tell me what type of bulb I need to buy for each location on the truck? Also, I am not really sure on what a "good" bulb would be.

EcoBoostJake

I made this mistake last year and now have about 1/3 of the interior bulbs flickering slightly. On the bright side for the holiday I bought myself higher quality LEDs from SuperbrightLEDs.com. Still less than half the cost of what they sell at Autozone, and it sounded like many members of this forum have had good results. I think it cost me about $40 to order everything for the cab.


Edit: Super Bright LEDs is offering 10% off for the rest of the day. They also have a bulb finder option based on your trucks make/model.


https://www.superbrightleds.com/

Liam_harrow

I ordered my leds from Super Bright Leds last year with good service as well as good Leds. I also noticed diode dynamics, a vendor on here, has a cyber monday 20% off deal.

Blakeyates

How am I supposed to know if they are CAN Bus or just LED? I looked in the manual and couldn't find anything helpful.

Liam_harrow

Canbus is a term only used in leds, and why it isn't in the manual. I remember in my research that f150s don't need canbus as long as they are good leds. If I'm not mistaken it's kind of like a grey area and f150s can use canbus too, but don't need to as opposed to European cars which think there is a bulb out with non canbus leds.