When I drive at day I usually switch on my headlights, H4 halogen. I’m using halogen bulbs with extra brightness, like Philips eXtreme and now Osram nightbreaker. These ‘extra’ H4 bulbs last also less. After 5000 miles I needed to replace my H4. I also read at tests that these ‘ extra’ halogen H4 bulb all had a reduced lifetime. So I was looking for another light source. I start using driving at day with my parklights on. But with sunny weather these incandescent bulb 1157 were not so bright that anyone should notice them. After some searching on the internet I found out that there were extra bright 1157 LED’s, to be used as Daytime Running Lights and turning lights. Not all the 1157 LED’s were bright enough and there are also two types. Turning light type 1 is white off, amber on, white on, amber on, etc. Turning light type 2 is amber on, amber off, amber on, etc. On the Youtube channel of Mustang Project I found a very bright 1157 LED, MP 1157 DC XP. This LED has 4 white LED’s at the front and 12 amber LED’s at the sides. So ordered these LED’s at Mustang Project.
I was surprised when the LED’s arrived. They didn’t look the same as the one at their website and YouTube channel. I got something I didn’t ordered. Two LED’s on the front, and eight at the sides instead of twelve.
So I sent an email about the difference between I ordered and what I received. I didn’t got any response and sent again an email to different departments of Mustang Project. This was weeks ago, at October 4th 2016. So after sending several emails, I never ever heard anything from Mustang Project.
The installed Mustang Project LED 1157-DC-XP were not bright as they should be. Their brightness was actually poor, as seen on the photo above.
So installed these MP 1157 LED’s I found out that after driving for 30 minutes, maybe less, the left amber turn LED signal didn’t work anymore. The white DRL stayed on while the signal lights on the dashboard were blinking for turn left. The first moment I noticed this was I stood behind another car and saw my reflection at the back of that car. When I directly turned the signal lever to the right the right amber led was blinking and the white DRL was off. After a few turning, the LED’s amber turning light were refusing now and then. I decided to replace these 1157 LED’s from Mustang Project to replace with the ‘old’ incandescent bulbs. These bulbs did their job right all the time. In the mean time I still hadn’t hear anything from Mustang Project about my complaint of the different LED I received.
I also ordered also an electronic flasher relay with clicking sound at Mustang Project. I installed the flasher relay and noticed the flashing frequency was slow, very slow. The flashing relay had 50 flashings in a minute. This was not between the minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 per minute. The flashing of the relay comes with two clickings per flash. When the turn signal lever was put back in the middle after a turn, there was still one click to hear. This was a little confusing, because I thought the turning relay was still on.
I happen to read an article about a company called Revology Cars, (http://revologycars.com/1966-k-gt-convertible/) who is reproducing new 1966 Mustangs with the best parts available today, but still have the original looks. At the section suppliers there was also a supplier for the lights, Vintage LEDs
(http://revologycars.com/our-suppliers/).
Browsing at their website I saw some movies about their products and it all looked good. It must be, if their products are being used in ‘brand new’ 1966 Mustangs of $150.000. At Youtube I found also more info about their products, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4iDodfUDY. I contacted Vintage Leds and Gary was very helpful. So I ordered the Daytime Running Lights, with white LED’s of 500 lumen, and amber turning lights of 400 lumen and a variable speed flasher relay.
These Vintage LED’s are very bright, as DRL and as Turning light. And they are doing their job all the time, no failure of the amber turning light. They are a little bit more expensive, but are doing their job and no trouble of refusing amber turning lights.
Also a nice thing is to know they are waterproof. At one of their movies they put the LED-board in a tank of water and it was still working fine.
Vintage Leds is also selling LED Sequential Turning/Taillights. So I ordered these also. But because there is a lot of demand for these LED’s, they were out of stock and will be available in about a few weeks.
I can’t wait.
Ron
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