Raxiom 2010 Style Tailights Dummy Reverse Light Fix

I also had a question. I wanted to stick some Red LED strips inside the tail light assembly a la 2013. Could I wire these into the tail light bulb wiring? More importantly, any tips on how to actually open the taillight assembly? I've seen videos in which people pop them into the oven, heat em up and pry em open.

brandonm132 said:

Hey guys,

I wanted to do something to my stang, but I didn't want to spend any money. So, I decided to "fix" the dummy reverse light problem on the Raxiom 2010 tail lights I bought. I couldn't find any write up on how to do this, but it seemed pretty straight forward, so I gave it a try.

Long story short, I used the reverse light base from an original tail light harness (I currently have plug-in sequentials from AM) and spliced it into the sequential's reverse wiring. As I didn't have a wide enough drill bit and I didn't want to buy a new one, I drilled multiple holes and cut the rest with a knife. I think it came out pretty good for only using a drill and a knife :bigthumbsup

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Wow that's pretty cool Brandon. Very creative of you, too! I definitely like the double back-up light better then the original. Not to mentioned you just used a drill and a knife haha.

As for the LED tail lights, I imagine you could splice them in with the other running lights if you wanted to. Assuming they don't draw too much power, of course. I haven't tried this myself yet, so I don't have a detailed info for you, unfortunately. If you get it done, definitely post up some pictures, so I can see it!

Again, great job :bigthumbsup

Shane

I've been wondering about doing this myself and didn't know if it could be done so thanks for posting it, very cool. But I wanted to go with led reverse lights instead of plain bulbs.

Here's a link to some led reverse lights if interested.
http://www.venomousstangz.net/index...ducts_id=249&zenid=m03hlep7appaikrdrsdpc28fi4


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As far as I had noticed not really. I recently replaced the bulbs with LEDs. Prior to that, they worked just fine, no flickering or any signs that they weren't getting enough "juice" so to speak.

And $15 for 2 LEDs? Seems a little expensive, what did the kit come with? I ordered over 7 bulbs (4 for the reverse lights, 2 for the interior map lights, and 1 for the license plate) and it was only over $20 with shipping included. The website I ordered 'em from is called superbrightleds.com. There's a whole bunch of cool stuff in there ranging from different color LED bulbs or even strips of LEDs at pretty good prices.

There's a whole bunch of stuff we can do style-wise to our Mustangs for a low price if we're willing to work on them ourselves. I'm currently working on adding Red LED strips to my tail lights sort of like outside edges 2013 mustang tailights, which should only cost me over $30 plus the manual labor hehe.

I'll definitely look at that site and get those. And yeah when I looked at the price I was a little surprised bc that's expensive for only two LEDs. I replaced my fog light bulbs with LEDs that almost matches my 10k headlights in my raxiom projectors. But I want to get 10k hids in my fog lights but haven't found any yet.

But talking about led strips. I was actually thinking about running two 10' led strips parallel to each other in my front turn signals somehow behind my smoked lens. I thought that might look pretty sick.

Opinion?


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I was thinking about doing the exact same thing hehe. It seems like a pretty straightforward job. Open up the turn signal housings and apply the LED strip. The ones from the website I have talked about come with 3M tape at the back, so it's just peel and apply :bigthumbsup.

The only problem with using LED strips is that you would have to use a type of strip that can run at two different levels of power. So that they turn on when you turn on your headlights and then flash brighter when you use the turn signal. I have not seen an LED strip that can do that.

The simpler option would just be to buy an LED bulb that will just plug & play.

Yeah after thinking about it A while I've run into the issue of how to stick it behind the lens for it to be straight and not look like crap. But I didn't think about the flashing aspect of the deal. I guess that would be a problem. But not if somehow when the flash was turned on that you could have a separate led strip flashing along with the constant powered led strip. Idk I'm going to look into it a little more.
Do they have LEDs now that will do what a regular bulb will, where you have one part of the light that stays off until told to flash.? Idk about it, just a thought


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I had not thought about it that way. Having one on constantly, while having the other one wired to the flashing wire is definitely possible (I have my halos wired to the constant). You COULD stick the strips to the back of the assembly, as they have adhesive backing, but i've also come across the same problem. I wanna stick some LED strips to the lens of my tailight, such as to outline the 6 tailight inserts and use em as flashers. I have yet to find any way that I can stick em without looking like a cheap home project. I was thinking possibly using clear silicone at certain spots, but I haven't had the time to do so.

As for LED bulbs. I have not yet ordered or used bulbs that can stay on and flash on the same bulb. The site says they are compatible with turn signals, so I assume they're supposed to.

Ant-Man said:

Gonna be whipping out the old stock harnesses and trying my luck at this sometime this week; just re-did my halo wiring now that we're heading into the rain and wanted to continue working on my girl.

Now was there anything else you needed to do, or was it pretty much drill & splice?

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That's pretty much all I did, apart from buying the 2 extra bulbs hehe. One thing to remember when you cut off the reverse light sockets from your old harnesses is to leave a good amount of wire leading into the socket. That way you won't run into any trouble with it being able to reach the inserts you're going to drill.

Post a picture when you finish!

Yeah having the led strips in the turn signals could look pretty awful if you stick them to the inside housing bc it may not be straight.

But yeah the led strips on the tail lights would look sweet if there was any way you could get it to not look so cheap. But are you talking about filling in the space in between and around the 3 light housing with LEDs? The only way you could prolly do that would be to put the LEDs around it and the. Fill in around the strips but over time whatever filler (caulk or whatever) will start to fall apart and look bad. That's just what I'm thinking. I would wait and see if they ever made some aftermarket taillights like the 13s for our year model.


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Well I tried the tail light thing, but I may have been too ambitious in wanting to outline the inserts. Instead I pasted single led stripes on the reflectors and wired them to sequence along with the bulbs. For the 3rd bulb, I also wired in a bigger stripe that outlines the upper half of the assembly. As you said this was VERY tedious.

At first I tried multiple methods to glue the strips onto the lens, but not of them worked. Tape works, but it's not gonna look clean. I think your best option is going to be either pasting em to the back of the assembly or using an actual bulb.

On another note AM is working on a 2013 style tail light assembly for 05-09s. It's supposed to be out in a couple of months, so that might be the best, yet pricier option.

If you don't mind I'm kind of curious how they turned out there buddy. Ha I know it sounds tedious and I guess you found it out to be.

But I'm ready to see what those look like but even if/when they do I think I'll prolly stick with the ones we have and put my money into something else.

Btw where did you get your HID fog lights an they are H11 right??


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Hmm I haven't thought of anything I could do that could be considered practical. So I might just finish up the driver's side and call it a day. At least till some other crazy idea pops up. I was considering maybe messing around with my original tail light assemblies, but I gotta finish what I started first :gringreen.