Changing to LED rear lights - questions.

[davemac250]

Am changing my rear lights and front indicators to LED's

I've got to find somewhere to mount the load resistors which I've just seen come with a warning - do not mount on plastic...

Has anyone done this and over come this mounting issue?

I was thinking of putting an aluminium block somewhere in the boot to act as a heat sink and mounting the resistors on that to dissipate heat.

The fronts I can mount in the engine bay on a chassis member I guess.

[davemac250]

Cheers.

Ordered the relay...

See how that goes.

[davemac250]

I've gone for new rear lights from the Hella mix and match round lamp range having made up new clusters.


The fronts I've got clear replacement indicators with standard bulbs - I'll switch these over to LED and use the resisted relay.


Today's problem is sorting out a sidelight. I've replaced the standard lights with speed 6 style lights - but the ones I sourced are single function units. Looking at fitting something on the front indicators to work as a sidelight. Or possibly motorbike style pilot lights in the original main beam units. Not sure yet.