Anybody ever add an extra tail light bulb or two?????

i went to a clear projector H4 relayed system. converts using original wiring, and can go back to stock just as easy.

I've always had mine clean and painted with "chrome" paint for max reflection.

I'm going to try painting it Gloss White. Looks like some good results with that trick. I'll stop and pick up some 2357 bulbs too. We'll see how that goes.

If that's not bright enought for my taste, then I'll add a bulb and add some vents and see what that reveals (pun intended).

I agree that the 3rd center brake light looks like crap on our cars. But a consideration would be that drivers these days are so used to seeing one in the center of the car, that if one is not there, it might delay brake response by the driver behind you.

the harness, relays, and wiring was a kit by matrix/or summit. plugs into the headlight contector to trigger on/off. the H4's are nice and bright and have a selection of different light avalible. like halogen tints, xenon , high pressure sodium.

for the enclosures, i thought Sirius had the best polished, clear projector, all metal H4 housings. nice heavy duty retaining clip an fine rubber boot.

-you still have to tremove the unit to replace a headlight.

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the fogs are tinted yellow with a product called clearguards. they are a colored , removeable, reuseable decal. they are activeated with soapy water to apply and release.

i had a dim tailight on one side...i thought it was a wiring problem, but when i took off the lense the inside had a thin coating of algae or mold that dimmed it considerably. it was odd though - you wouldn't notice it at first glance.

Well, I picked up the 2357 bulbs and they are definately brighter on the brake, than 1157's. I painted the housing gloss white and put he 2357s in and it looks great, but I think I still want it brighter, so I may add another bulb in there just for the heck of it. I want my brake lights to Scare someone when they come on!

Did you find the 2357's at a local parts place?

Yup,...advance auto had a bunch of them. Sylvana

Thanks.

On my 87 Diplomat it had three bulbs per tail light, but only two functioned as both stop and tail lights. The third was tail light only. So I added an extra wire to the socket and turned it into a stop/tail setup. Tried cleaning out the housing as best I could, hard to do because the lense and housing is one unit. It worked ok.

On my 65 Cuda, one bulb per side, I cleaned and painted the housings with chrome paint then repaired (cracked and a hole) the lenses and polished them up. Ran 2357's and it is nice and bright. Only thing left is a CHMSL if I want more visibility. I'll probably put one at the top of the rear window if I go that route, a nice low profile one with LEDs, should be virtually invisible till they light up.