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Old Oct 4, 2016 | 11:06 PM
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I have a 2008 f150 KR Screw and all halogen bulbs have been replaced with led's, interior and exterior. The exterior led's are giving me problems. I swapped everything over about 7 months ago and to date I've had to replace a fog light bulb, tail light bulb, headlight light bulb and reverse light bulb. Load resistors and anti flickers are installed on turn signals and headlights. I bought all of thes led's from the same company, they are really good about replacing them but it seems like every month I have to replace a bulb and I just noticed tonight that my other headlight is starting to flicker which is the same thing my replaced bulb did before it stopped working. So my question is, are these trucks just not made for led's or is this company just selling pos led's?
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Old Oct 4, 2016 | 11:24 PM
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What company? As for anything LED related, I have all LED's on the exterior and interior of my 07, no issues so far. I installed a EP27 electronic flasher to handle the low current on the turn signal bulbs. No hyperflash, no issues. I have LED headlights, foglights, turn signal and side marker bulbs, license plate bulbs, 3rd brake light bulbs, brake lights and reverse lights. I even have LED strips under my running boards.
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Old Oct 4, 2016 | 11:30 PM
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F150leds.com
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Old Oct 4, 2016 | 11:44 PM
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Well, from what I know and have read, they are not the best. Look at Theretrofitsource.com for your small bulbs (3157, 168, 194 ) and 4x4truckleds.com for your headlights and fogs (9008/H13 and 9005/H10 for fogs).
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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 05:06 AM
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I also have every single bulb swapped to led from extieror to the gauge cluster inside. No issues here.
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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 07:39 AM
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Where did you get your headlight bulbs from? I'm pulling out the headlight bulbs today and putting the halogens back in. Too much glare and issues with the f150led bulbs.
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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 07:51 AM
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I also have every bulb on my 07 KR switched to LED. NO load resistors or anti flickers here. Just swapped the flasher for the EP27 as Summers stated and the only problem I've ever had is the issue between the fogs and headlights not properly switching back and forth from brights. Did the bambi mod and now that problem is gone!
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Also I have bought all my bulbs off of either Amazon or Ebay. Never had to replace a bulb yet.
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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 08:04 AM
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Thanks for the input guys. I'm gonna order a flasher so I can get rid of all those load resistors and I will start searching for new headlight bulbs
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Start here for headlight bulbs:
https://www.f150forum.com/f37/led-he...n-kits-360072/

Also if you aren't concerned with a long warranty, ebay has the same style for way less money.
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