Originally Posted by blupupher

The 4 light ones are probably listed as 18w, so with 2 your pulling 36w with the LED, then the OEM lights (4.5 amps for a regular 3156). Your looking at ~ 8 amps of the stock wiring. Could you, yes, since reverse lights are only on for 20-30 seconds at the longest you should be fine, but it would be best to run a relay.

I have 2 10 w cubes and some Cree LED reverse lights (7w each) on mine.
So that 24w is pulling 2 amps.


So if you change the reverse lights to LED (These are the ones I got) as well as the pods, you should be fine without a relay.

Originally Posted by elricfate

Thanks for that. I was looking for something exactly along those lines.

The two 18w LED bars I have for the back draw 3amps in total, so I figured if I changed out the actual reverse lamps to LED and then spliced them in, it would still be under the amperage draw for the reverse lights required to pop a fuse or melt a wire.

Originally Posted by StephenG

Heres what I did for additional reverse lights. 6 eagle eye LED's spliced right into the reverse light wires drilled into the bumper. Swapped factory bulbs with LED's in the reverse lights too. Not sure why the LEDs in the bumper look yellow but they are actually really bright white light.