I was looking at the thread for the Mirror LED reflector mod and got to thinking. Are these LEDs bright enough durable enough to put on the outside of the vehicle. I was thinking about putting them between the bumper and tailgate, or along each side of my receiver hitch as additional reverse lighting. Then just tap into the factory reverse light wires. Similar to the run, brake, reverse light bars but alot less $$$ and smaller version. Maybe use two 10 inch strips. Any Ideas??


Alpena/24 in. white colorful flexible LED light

Price:
$19.99





Features & Benefits
The 24” FlexLEDs in white are a great accessory lighting product to be installed around the inside and outside of the vehicle. The LEDs are positioned on the circuit board to shine upwards, away from the surface area. This product is great for accent lighting, mood lighting in the vehicles interior, or just to provide additional light in locations like truck beds, grilles, under dash applications and the likes. One package contains 2 x 12” pieces of LEDs. Each LED comes with premium 1mm thick 3M foam tape already pre-installed on the LED strips for easy installation. The LEDs can be cut to size at the pre-determined points marked by the small scissor icons. The FlexLEDs are extremely flexible and can contour to curved surfaces, allowing for limitless application options.

• Easy to install with supplied long lasting 3M tape
• Features bright 3528 type LEDs
• Cut to size
• Extremely flexible for curved surfaces

 

If you have any concerns about the strips being water tight, I'd apply 3M 5200 marine sealant to the problem areas. It comes in differant colors and the dang stuff is waterproof even when applied to a wet surface.

However I am looking into installing the purpose built turn signal/brake light/reverse light led strip on my own truck. My only concern is the legality come inspection time.
Virginia is not cool with most lighting mods...

 

how does it connect. I had seen some which plug into the trailer harness i think. If this was the case you could unplug in when you get inspected.

 

I am sure they would hold up, but I am not sure you would be happy with the light outputfrom tham as an auxillary back up light.

 

You can get that brake turn and tail light at jcwhitney.com for 29.99.

 

Those will not provide anywhere enough light to light up anything. They will act as markers to those behind you that you are in R, if they are looking of course.