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Old 08-24-2005, 09:42 AM
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LED 3'rd brake light.???

Does anyone make one? Porsche just came out with an aftermarket.
Check it out. It has a nice row of leds!

 
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Old 08-24-2005, 10:11 AM
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LED third brake light

Yes, MINI makes them. It is standard equipment.

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Old 08-24-2005, 11:12 AM
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yeah, your factory 3rd brake light is already an LED assembly. For a beter LED effect, purchase a clear Aero 3rd brake light....
 
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Old 08-24-2005, 11:17 AM
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What is trick however is that someone over on MINI2 has made a modification so that the light scans once or blinks before you brake. Looks really cool and would raise driver awareness around you

We are lucky its an LED though.....for those of us with cooper spoilers, it would be a pain to remove them to change bulbs
 
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Old 11-18-2005, 08:48 AM
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whats the link for the porsche LED

whats the link for the led you mentioned

Originally Posted by Jeru
Does anyone make one? Porsche just came out with an aftermarket.
Check it out. It has a nice row of leds!

 
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Old 11-18-2005, 09:11 AM
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here a link to a mod for flashing brakelights.

http://www.comagination.com/bflasher.htm
 
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Old 11-20-2005, 10:13 PM
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Hope he has understanding police where he lives. I don't have too much trouble with my clear rear assemblies without red reflectors, but a blinking brake light, especially at night is asking to get pulled over!
 
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Old 12-14-2005, 10:45 PM
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Blinking brake lights

I guess they aren't legal here yet, but Mercedes has them in Europe.

http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=103392
http://www.benzworld.org/news/news.asp?id=289
 
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Old 12-15-2005, 12:16 AM
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I have this for 6 months now Intelligent brake flasher (IBF9) with about 7-9 FLASHES/4 seconds then stays steady ON until
Misfitoy has had his for much longer now..
I just got back from a 4500 mile road trip from MI to AZ
(MI,IN,IL,OK,TX,AZ) with no problems
 
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Old 01-02-2006, 05:39 PM
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It's out in Japan

Black or Clear
 
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how much .....pfunk??

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Originally Posted by TheWrks
I have this for 6 months now Intelligent brake flasher (IBF9) with about 7-9 FLASHES/4 seconds then stays steady ON until
Misfitoy has had his for much longer now..
I just got back from a 4500 mile road trip from MI to AZ
(MI,IN,IL,OK,TX,AZ) with no problems
I kinda like this. I've seen this on a couple vehicles already. Says it's DOT for CA...that's cool.

Since you've installed it, could you give some tips on where you put it?

Does it blink all the lights or just the 3rd LED high mount light?
 
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Old 01-02-2006, 06:23 PM
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I kinda like this. I've seen this on a couple vehicles already. Says it's DOT for CA...that's cool.

Since you've installed it, could you give some tips on where you put it?

Does it blink all the lights or just the 3rd LED high mount light?
Hoopi i sent a PM ....

The Flasher was put behind the "3rd" brake light module and spliced the wire to oem wires. "3rd" B/light will flash and only this light, the other two b/;ights will be on all the time no flashing
 
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Old 01-02-2006, 08:56 PM
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cool

Thanks for the info and link
 
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Originally Posted by TheWrks
Hoopi i sent a PM ....

The Flasher was put behind the "3rd" brake light module and spliced the wire to oem wires. "3rd" B/light will flash and only this light, the other two b/;ights will be on all the time no flashing
Do you happen to recall the colour of the positive wire that feeds the LED bar? I received one of these momentary flashers to install in a similar fashion. With the Sport package it's very difficult to remove the LED bar display - maybe not even possible. So, I was going to splice it into the loom which is reachable from the alarm sensor box on the rear ceiling. However, there are quite a few wires in the bundle. If you could provide the color of the wire that you spliced into, I would be very thankful.

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Do you happen to recall the colour of the positive wire that feeds the LED bar? I received one of these momentary flashers to install in a similar fashion. With the Sport package it's very difficult to remove the LED bar display - maybe not even possible. So, I was going to splice it into the loom which is reachable from the alarm sensor box on the rear ceiling. However, there are quite a few wires in the bundle. If you could provide the color of the wire that you spliced into, I would be very thankful.

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I have the Sport package and i was able to take out the 3rd Light assembly and I can not remember which wire went were as I did not install it myself.
And I'm out of town so i can't go and look. I'll be home 20th Jan so i'll look then....
 
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Old 01-16-2006, 10:11 PM
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installed it
COOL DUDE !
 
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Originally Posted by TheWrks
I have the Sport package and i was able to take out the 3rd Light assembly and I can not remember which wire went were as I did not install it myself.
And I'm out of town so i can't go and look. I'll be home 20th Jan so i'll look then....
Thanks - you're a gentleman and a scholar...
 
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Old 02-06-2006, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by TheWrks
I have the Sport package and i was able to take out the 3rd Light assembly and I can not remember which wire went were as I did not install it myself.
And I'm out of town so i can't go and look. I'll be home 20th Jan so i'll look then....
Did you have the opportunity to check out the high-brake light wiring colour?
 
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Old 02-07-2006, 06:53 PM
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Did you have the opportunity to check out the high-brake light wiring colour?
I'm sorry Chris, I have been very busy for work on the road all the time. I have a week of as of Monday the 13th so i'll look then..
 
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Old 02-11-2006, 01:05 AM
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So where exactly can we order the blacked out 3rd brake light?
 
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Old 02-20-2006, 11:24 AM
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bump...
No one knows where we can order the blacked out 3rd brake light here in the states???
 
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Old 02-20-2006, 12:23 PM
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just buy a clear and spray it with exterior light tint.....its pretty easy and you get to choose the darkness
 
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Old 02-20-2006, 01:35 PM
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hey rally, how ya been?

u can spray tha red ones too!!
 
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Old 02-20-2006, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by joker
u can spray tha red ones too!!

yah...you could spray the red ones too. it might have a slight red tint to it, but that might not matter to some. joker is right

Joker-I have been well....how's life?
 


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