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Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:13 am
by stu21t
Has anyone upgraded their reverse lights?
If so which bulbs did you use?

Will these fit?
At 825 lumens they should be very bright!

http://www.aurorabulbs.com/collections/ ... 8119449347

Cheers

Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:08 pm
by X5MO
I have the same issue, very poor lighting for reverse. Hope we get some pointers to resolve the issue

Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:58 am
by AW8
No idea re F15 & unsure if there are issues re loom, fuses &/or error messages on E53.

Hopefully someone who has upgraded may be able to clarify.

Quite handy to be able to see when reversing when it is dark.

Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:23 am
by app_master
Hi. I am in the process of updating light bulbs on my 2008 e70 also, to nice white led, everywhere possible.

I too need better reverse/backup light, so I purchased these (image below) and will report with a photo on the improvement after fitting this coming weekend.

PS. the OEM light bulb type is a 921 type
(cross references includes; T15, W16W, T13, 904, 906, 912, 921, 2827).
Although you should check bulb dimensions for fitment in place.

Image

Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:24 pm
by app_master
Rear upgraded LED bulbs in place. I would say they are at least twice as bright than the standard bulbs. But I have no way to measure this. It is also difficult to capture an image of...but here it is...
Image

Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:49 am
by rickyclean
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Rear upgraded LED bulbs in place. I would say they are at least twice as bright than the standard bulbs. But I have no way to measure this. It is also difficult to capture an image of...but here it is...
Image

Nice one! I need to do this as well.

Was it an easy conversion or was there some modifications needed?


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Re: Reverse light upgrade, what bulbs?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:31 am
by app_master
Plug-n-play my friend. The type I bought were canbus compatible.