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Certainly is a clean machine! :)

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Great stance....looks sweet! :frd

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Thanks guys. I did a lot of research on things before I bought them. I wanted to make it look nice, like a Mustang should and not too updated or un-mustang like. My wheels for instance were productions from the Shelby line. They came stock on the '07-'08 model Shelbys.

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Looks good, like the stance.

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Completed the blinker mod :)

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MaDMaXX wrote: Completed the blinker mod :)
Congrats! Videos of the completed, working blinkies?

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Yes, and I added pics to the blinker mod guide on these forums.

However, the LEDs I got are crap, I'll put the video up later, but you can barely tell the difference between high and low, so lights on, indicating, yeah, really needed to do the mod if I wanted anyone to see I was turning!

Here's a pic of the led Vs the filament just in running light mode (good)

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Big, big difference between the two! I had some cheap bulbs in my tail/stop lights. Could barely see the difference, so I bought some better ones. MUCH better now!

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Yeah, the LEDs are great in that pic, but the indicator was barely brighter, new ones coming Saturday.

Checked my tails (still regular bulbs) out of curiosity, they weren't much better, which is bad as they're brakes and indicators too!

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Yeah, that was my problem with the first LEDs. Difference between TAIL and STOP were barely noticeable. So I quickly got some better bulbs. I retro-fitted Cameron's 1999 3-bulb tails onto my 2003, so the TURN portion is a separate bulb.

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That would be a good reason to go three bulb from two, but I'm confident I can get LEDs with an acceptable difference.

The larger concern to me is that the current regular bulbs in my tail lights are also not very different between high and low! :(

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They may be the wrong bulb. I got my bulbs off of eBay. They came from an American seller, but they were still Chinese bulbs. But they work well and didn't require me to mortgage the house to pay for them.

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Regular filament bulbs? (Not led)

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No, mine are all LED except the headlights and fogs. I just checked my eBay purchase history. Got these bulbs in December 2016. HERE is what I got.

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Why don't you purchase your LED's from buggman?.

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Oh, yeah my rear bulbs are regular and have little difference, bad stuff.

I wouldn't mind some buggman bulbs, they're certainly fancy, but I'm on a budget; Prime is allowing me to test lower price LEDs for 'free' for now.

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'FREE' is good! I like 'FREE'!

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Ha! don't we all, though once I settle, I pay, but still cheaper than buggman awesome bulbs.

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Well, from what I have read in the various forums, Terry provides a quality product in his custom fabrications. My truck is pretty boring, nothing special and therefore requires nothing special. However, if the need arises, I will certainly call upon Mr. Buggman to whip up something cool for my ride! :)

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Just a shameless plug for the bugg, I have been playing with LED's in some form since they were available at radio shack, making radios glow red or ash trays glow green or eyes in little clay monsters blink.

I still buy over half my LED products from Buggman, he tests his stuff and whenever I get LED's from him they are always marked positive and negative clearly.

I'm hoping I can boost his 3rd brake light turn signal mod sales because it is really an awesome unit, I did a write up on installation and posted a video.

One out of every 3 batches of LED's I buy through flea bay are crap, batches from the same vendor are different shades of white.

So when it has to work I buy it from Terry Buggman. When I have months to experiment and test things I buy from e-bay.

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Yeah, I saw your write up and watched the video. Really nice setup!

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Turned out to be a 4.0 engine, manual trans was a plus. He was asking $2800 negotiable.

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Windows tinted a couple days ago. 5% on doors and back window and 50% on windshield. And I picked up a camper shell for next to nothing.

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Bukwessul wrote: Turned out to be a 4.0 engine, manual trans was a plus. He was asking $2800 negotiable.
What year/trim level?

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@Mikey Mike: Nice tint! Is your truck E4 Red? That pic with the camper top looks red as opposed to your avatar which looks orange. I thought you had an orange Ranger (which would be unique).

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