Anyone replace US rear turn signal bulbs with LED bulbs?

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I know you can buy the oem led rear tail light assembly, but for those that do not want to spend that much....Can you simply replace the 7507 standard bulbs with led equivalents?

Do we require canbus bulbs, to prevent hyper flashing, or dashboard error lights?

I searched, and didn't find any hits on anyone doing this already. I kinda figured with the LED reverse swaps someone would have also done the turn signals...
 
I ordered a pair off amazon. I'll update with my opinion for others...
 
Ive been wondering this, the front turn signals are so awesome looking but we got screwed on the rears in North America. Would love to see if any good options exist for this because I'd be all over them.
 
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The rear turn signals are not bulbs
They are permasealed LED panels
You cannot change the light unless you cut open the actual tail light
 
Good to know they are LED and not cheap halogens.
 
From interior to exterior to high performance - everything you need for your Stinger awaits you...
replace the 7507 standard bulbs

The Operators Manual that came with my car indicates, that the bulbs you are referring to are in fact LEDs.

So here are a couple of pictures that may grab your interest:

The first two pictures (of a white and red Stinger) are from a video review made on Mallorca and are youtube screenshots.
The third and fourth picture are of my car, taken in the rain because that's what we have been getting here for days or weeks it seems.
Never mind the crappy look, what is of interest here are the two lights.

On close examination of the clear lenses of these lights, one discovers a number of small lenses formed in the larger lens.
These small lenses are of no consequence on Canadian (North American?) cars, that probably correspond with any array of 9 or 10 individual LEDs behind them, as in the European (German) Stingers in pictures 1 & 2 above.
If you look at the first picture, it would appear that the Europen cars also appear to have a black mask to delineate the individual LEDs in the array and emphasize the "punctuated" look.

Which I was after.:)

To duplicate the look, I created a mask with cutouts positioned in line with the aforementioned small lenses. I had some black self-adhesive vinyl lying around and went at it as proof of concept.

I am going to get some high-gloss material and refine the look, maybe even some carbon material. For the two masks, a piece of 4 x 10 inches is all that's needed.

It's a bit of work, but I think well worth it. If I get tired of it, it's easily changed.

Any markings, measurements were made with overlays and without touching the plastic surface of lights directly.
Cuttings were made far away from the car.


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The rear turn signals are not bulbs
They are permasealed LED panels
You cannot change the light unless you cut open the actual tail light

I feel real stupid....I assumed since we didn't get the LED reverse bulbs, the turn signals for the rear were the same.
 
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From interior to exterior to high performance - everything you need for your Stinger awaits you...
That does look really sharp. Carbon fiber might be hard to fit the contour, but a couple dabs of "Gorilla Glue"......
 
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