Thread: Defender owner changes a Jeep stop light globe!

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

WOW, LED's are meant to have 100,000hr lives (or something like that)

Wasn't some thing else in the circuitry?

Don't get me going about LEDs.

I ordered over £150 of LEDs from a UK company called ULTRALEDS. It was a few months before I fitted any of them. Went on a 4 month trip and some of the individual LEDS failed in the LED clusters.

It then took me a few months to ring the so, so 'helpful' phone line at Ultraleds. Got told they only warrenty is for 3 months and I had bought them over a year ago. Also that most bulb/globe manufacturers dont give a warrenty at all.

Also the 100,000 hours running time is no longer mentioned in their advertising blurp.

Ultraled would not give me any indication of the expected service life of these LED clusters/bulbs/globes. In fact I was told that becausing I was asking questions about their LEDs I was blocking their sales line and the phone slammed down on me.

So a big thumbs down to Ultraleds.


I did some digging around and found that there are different qualities of the individual LED as supplied by the LED manufacturers. The LED cluster manufacturers tend to buy the cheapest LED going to install in their clusters/globes.

This is the main reason why the 100,000 hour life expectancy by the LED CLUSTER/GLOBE manufacturers has been quitely dropped.

In my experience the LED globes provided by Ultraleds started to fail in less then 500 hours of running time.

Please be careful where you buy your LED clusters/globes from

Regards


Brendan

Lol!!! Clearly the Chero drives nothing like a Wrangler - which I find turns in, hangs on and generally corners brilliantly for a 4WD.
I've driven so-called "sports cars" with worse steering!
And changing tail globes - 4 screws on a nice utilitarian cluster sticking out either side of the tail gate, easy peasy!
Mike

Excuse my ignorance gents but I thought the hole idea of changing light bulbs on jeeps was redundant.. Aren't they throw away!!

A slight correction:

Not just four SCREWS but 10mm BOLTS with heads cunningly arranged so you can't use a flat spanner but need a tube or a socket with an extension.