where can I get blue turning signal lights?

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I was told at advance auto that I need to just buy the clear bulbs and paint them blue with heat resistant paint.. and ideas?
 
WTF?

No that dont work out well. Look on ebay. Advanced and Autozone usually carry that crap:confused: .

FYI federal regulations say its a no no to use any color other than amber in your front directional markers.
 
Ive been checking ebay regularly, but still havent found any.

I guess I can go check out autozone and O'Reillys..

Thanks for the heads up!! lol, but I fugure if the cops want to go out of their way to mess with me, it will just be a "fix-it-ticket" or a small fine.
 
Pretty sure only cops and other emergency vehicles are allowed to display flashing blue lights. You'll get a ticket, no doubt - and the cops might not be friendly about it either!
 
May be but thats the opposite out come of this.....


Gipp said:
I was told at advance auto that I need to just buy the clear bulbs and paint them blue with heat resistant paint.. and ideas?
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Usually I dont listen to Wikipedia but this is the best I could find without digging deep into official DOT sites....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_lighting
Turn signal colour


Until the early 1960s, most front turn signals worldwide emitted white light and most rear turn signals emitted red. Amber front turn signals were voluntarily adopted by the auto industry in the USA for most vehicles beginning in the 1963 model year, though front turn signals were still permitted to emit white light until FMVSS 108 took effect for the 1968 model year, whereupon amber became the only permissible colour for front turn signals. Presently, almost all countries outside North America require that all front, side and rear turn signals produce amber light. In North America the rear signals may be amber or red. International proponents of amber rear signals say they are more easily discernible as turn signals. U.S. studies in the early 1990s demonstrated improvements in the speed and accuracy of following drivers' reaction to brake lamps when the turn signals were amber rather than red.[28][29][30][31][32] American regulators and other proponents of red rear turn signals have historically asserted there is no proven lifesaving benefit to amber signals, though a 2008 U.S. study suggests vehicles with amber rear signals rather than red ones are up to 28% less likely to be involved in certain kinds of collisions.[33]

There is some evidence that turn signals with colourless clear lenses and amber bulbs may be less conspicuous in bright sunlight than those with amber lenses and colourless bulbs.[34]

[edit] Colour durability

The amber bulbs commonly used in turn signals with colourless lenses are no longer made with cadmium glass, for cadmium is banned due to its toxicity by various regulations worldwide, including the European RoHS directive[35]. Amber glass made without cadmium is very costly, so most amber bulbs are now made with clear glass dipped in an amber coating. Some of these coatings are not as durable as the bulbs themselves; with prolonged heat-cool cycles, the coating may flake off the bulb glass, or its colour may fade. This causes the turn signal to emit white light rather than the required amber light. The international regulation on motor vehicle bulbs requires manufacturers to test bulbs for colour endurance[36]. However, no test protocol or colour durability requirement is specified. Discussion is ongoing[37] within the Groupe des Rapporteurs d'Éclairage, the UNECE working group on vehicular lighting regulation, to develop and implement a colour durability standard. Rather than using an amber bulb, some signal lamps contain an inner amber plastic enclosure between a colourless bulb and the colourless outer lens.
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lol ^ +1:cool:

I plan to do all my lights in blue... Im going to be a mobile target for cops, but I want the blue turn signals, blue reverse, blue HID's (eventually), and blue fogs. As you can see in my avatar, I already replaced my license lights with blue led's
 
Well to each his own but besides being a cop magnet its gunna look gay.

At the least, fried rice.

Good luck. If you go with LED just remember you'll need load resistors.
 
ok, a load resistor? what is this?

Dont get me wrong I value everyones opinion here (If I didnt I wouldnt have opened this thread and asked for opinions), but it cant be any gay-er then the ugly yellow discharge thats coming from my headlights right now..


"Load Resistor Kits
One Load Resistor is required for each bulb
LED bulbs may cause some vehicles to indicate a bulb is burnt out (because of their low power consumption). Some cars indicate this
by turning on a bad bulb indicator. This can be remedied with load resistors wired across the LED bulbs to simulate a filament bulb load"

IS THIS FOR REAL? Im going to need 1 resistor for every bulb??
 
Its definitely more gay dude. It goes waaaaaaay beyond purpose and just looks stupid and childish. This is a car, not a party boat. If anything is more rice and goes without opinion its colored turn signals.

Load resistors help keep the center console display from showing the bulb out message and helps keep them from hyper flashing.
 
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