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Your single filament bulb is probably your reverse lights
My brake lights aren’t bright enough
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No... 69-70 Chargers have little round lights in the rear valance for reverse lights... There are three red light sections per side, the inboard sections are strictly tail lights...
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I see an 1141 can SOMETIMES interchange for 1059. You might drill into this deal or just give these a run for ten bucks. I do think they sell a few different styles of this one.
What did you decide to do Greg @Kern Dog, clean the lenses and sockets or upgrade to LEDs?
They look pretty bright to me, though it’s not that sunny in the picture.
They look pretty bright to me, though it’s not that sunny in the picture.
Greg.... @Kern Dog ....just please make sure that the lamps in your taillight assemblies are actually rated at 12 Volts...and not 24 Volts.
I have seen that happen where they get mixed up, and dim tail & brake lights is the result. It actually happened on my A100 when my buddy installed new lamps in without checking the packet first - he grabbed new lamps from his auto-lamp display in his shop, and they were actually 24 Volts.
I honestly don't know how it wasn't discovered on inspection. It was only when someone pointed out that the lights were dim, that I checked each lamp myself. Found the problem, changed the lamps, and they are super bright now.
This happened about 12 years ago.
I have seen that happen where they get mixed up, and dim tail & brake lights is the result. It actually happened on my A100 when my buddy installed new lamps in without checking the packet first - he grabbed new lamps from his auto-lamp display in his shop, and they were actually 24 Volts.
I honestly don't know how it wasn't discovered on inspection. It was only when someone pointed out that the lights were dim, that I checked each lamp myself. Found the problem, changed the lamps, and they are super bright now.
This happened about 12 years ago.
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That would be really strange. All that I have ever used is the 1157 and the 2057 bulbs for the center and outer sockets. I don't think that I ever questioned the voltage rating. Note the difference between the brightness of these two cars of mine:
Both cars have the same type of bulbs. Red/Ginger has cleaner lenses and restored housings that I'm pretty sure that I painted silver in 2003.
Jigsaw sat wrecked from 1995 to 2021 and while all the wiring works, it could have lots of resistance in it. I've never had the housings out of the car. The bulbs may even be what was in the car when I got it. The brake lights show up okay in the dark...
Now with the afternoon sun behind me...
If anything, I'd opt for the Digitails but I'd disable the sequential function for it. I'd rather it just illuminate the way the stock system does.
As it is now, I have changed nothing. I got back from the road trip and got busy with @CoronetDarter on an engine build and install in his 68 Dart.
Both cars have the same type of bulbs. Red/Ginger has cleaner lenses and restored housings that I'm pretty sure that I painted silver in 2003.
Jigsaw sat wrecked from 1995 to 2021 and while all the wiring works, it could have lots of resistance in it. I've never had the housings out of the car. The bulbs may even be what was in the car when I got it. The brake lights show up okay in the dark...
Now with the afternoon sun behind me...
If anything, I'd opt for the Digitails but I'd disable the sequential function for it. I'd rather it just illuminate the way the stock system does.
As it is now, I have changed nothing. I got back from the road trip and got busy with @CoronetDarter on an engine build and install in his 68 Dart.
Ginger‘s tail lights still look bright to me.
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From the pictures, I think so too. It is only Randy that thought mine were ripe for improvement. I've never been outside of my car to see anyone else drive it.
I wonder if a previous owner tipped some sort of dye into the light housings....making the lights appear darker - like a stealth mode????
Worth taking a look.
Worth taking a look.
Like a tint/smoke. It’s a big thing on new cars.
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I would pull your bulbs and test the circuits with a volt meter, see if your getting good ground and proper voltage. You may have a corroded connection in your harness
Looks like Classic Industries has rebooted an older design of LED tail lights for the 69-70 Chargers. The wiring plugs right into the tail light socket. Non sequential.
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Daniel Stern popped in a thread at FABO about how to make your lights shine brighter. He wrote about painting the inside of the housings with flat White House paint. I decided to test out his idea on my ratty car.
Here is how Jigsaw looked with seasoned and untouched (by me) taillights.
Note how the left side has a sort of even glow while the right is brighter right by the bulbs.
I pulled the left housing to find…
It looks better than I expected.
You can see black spots where the bulbs did heat up and discolor the top section of the housing.
The bottoms looked fine.
I sprayed inside the housing with this:
It is what I had at hand. It is satin
Now a before and after.
I’m not sure if I can tell much of a difference. Can you ?
Here is how Jigsaw looked with seasoned and untouched (by me) taillights.
Note how the left side has a sort of even glow while the right is brighter right by the bulbs.
I pulled the left housing to find…
It looks better than I expected.
You can see black spots where the bulbs did heat up and discolor the top section of the housing.
The bottoms looked fine.
I sprayed inside the housing with this:
It is what I had at hand. It is satin
Now a before and after.
I’m not sure if I can tell much of a difference. Can you ?
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You only did the left side, right ?
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Yeah. I was trying to show a side by side comparison. I didn’t realize at first that the left side already looked better.
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I do notice an improvement
Show us when it get's dark.
Ceiling White Paint REALLY Works!
I remember seeing in another thread @slantsixdan talkin about painting the inside of light fixtures like tail lights and turn signal housings with ceiling white paint. I just happen to have a quart of ceiling white paint, because I'm working on the house. I've been doing some work on one of my...
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The left side does look more uniform and brighter. I agree nighttime pictures would be better.
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