Reversing lights.

[Max_Headroom]

  I had two wheels refurbished as part of the deal when i bought the car so am trying not to kerb them again but this is becoming a challenge as my street is poorly lit and has tall kerbs, i find the reversing lights on my Yaris are about as good as a couple of candles, does anyone here know if there are aftermarket light that will fit or if i could try brighter bulbs.

Thanks in advance.

[Devon Aygo]

You will need a W16WLL type bulb, However the purpose of reverse lamps is to indicate you reversing they were never designed as illumination, that said an LED should give a brighter whiter light which should help

[Jimota]

I ever so lightly touch the foot brake when reversing at night to give a little bit more illumination.  

[RobertR]

This is a nemesis for me either, hope when my YC comes, it will have reversing light strong as two light fireflies in the jar. On my previous cars, I always swap the original halogen bulb with a strong Ali express led to see at least something when reversing. ( I have pretty long reversing every day at my home, and during night and rain, I can see absolutely nothing)

But my fear is that LED reversing lights on the new YC will not be changeable (rather integrated into light assembly). The only change is to install some ugly aftermarket light and somehow electrically connected it to the factory reversing light.

[flash22]

The reverse light on the Mk 3 2nd facelift 2017 are led as it's in the tailgate you could add another LED to the other side like Vins did (base spec cars got a bulb)

towards the bottom of the 1st page

 

Reverse lights are to be seen by, Not seeing with - upgrading the number plate lights will help with the camera

 

[Vins213]

2 minutes ago, flash22 said:

The reverse light on the Mk 3 2nd facelift 2017 are led as it's in the tailgate you could add another LED to the other side like Vins did (base spec cars got a bulb)

towards the bottom of the 3rd page

 

Reverse lights are to be seen by, Not seeing with - upgrading the number plate lights will help with the camera

 

This is not a reverse light, but a rear fog led light

 

the reverse light is double on the rear, a simple bulb that can be upgraded with a led one (t10 if I'm right)

[Vins213]

here

[flash22]

My mistake, you could use the location as a secondary reverse light as it's in a clear housing tho

[Vins213]

My 3rd gen restyle has two reverse light, upgraded the bulbs with two LEDs with lens on the front..really great illumination 

[MikeSh]

2 hours ago, Vins213 said:

My 3rd gen restyle has two reverse light, upgraded the bulbs with two LEDs with lens on the front..really great illumination 

The rear camera on mine has much better night-sight than me it seems. The lights are plenty.

[Vins213]

1 minute ago, MikeSh said:

The rear camera on mine has much better night-sight than me it seems. The lights are plenty.

True, but with LEDs everything is 'much more plenty' lol

[bathtub tom]

I put the sidelights on to reduce the glow of the screen and the rear foglight. Works for me.

[TonyHSD]

Led might not be legal as aftermarket fitted in uk and I think they won’t provide more light , just a stronger concentrate pattern pointed towards the ground similar to led installed as number plates lights . The number plate its not more visible at night , but just like two torches pointing towards the ground. I also do the trick with the brake but op car is manual and it will be more difficult. 👍

[MikeSh]

1 hour ago, TonyHSD said:

Led might not be legal as aftermarket fitted in uk

I can't imagine any MoT tester failing LED reversing lights ... or anything other than headlights really. Unless they were an obviously odd colour he'd have to dismantle to check and they don't do that.

[TonyHSD]

12 minutes ago, MikeSh said:

I can't imagine any MoT tester failing LED reversing lights ... or anything other than headlights really. Unless they were an obviously odd colour he'd have to dismantle to check and they don't do that.

I agree for the mot although my tester’s always look at the lights front and rear. On previous cars I had Philips w5w bluevision standard parking bulbs that are blue glass but produce bright white light and once the tester asked me if these are original because they were looking better than oem, he didn’t say anything else. My pint is that led bulbs fitted to non originally designed lights does not help and does not make better light. Perhaps for interior use are fine, but I prefer normal bulbs there too. 

[MikeSh]

55 minutes ago, TonyHSD said:

My pint is that led bulbs fitted to non originally designed lights does not help and does not make better light.

That depends. Better quality replacement LEDs may (should) be built to have a similar light distribution to filament lamps and will therefore work well in a 'filament' housing and reflector. Ones that have only or mostly outward facing LEDs won't work so well.

I see similar effects with household bulbs (in for example pendant fittings). Incandescent lamps throw a lot of light to the ceiling but the construction of LED equivalents often have the electronics housing significantly blocking that direction and so the light output is more downward than incandescent. So even though the outputs and colour temperature are equivalent the effect in the room can be dramatically different.

(My preferred pint is Ringwood Forty-niner 😉 )

[TonyHSD]

10 hours ago, MikeSh said:

That depends. Better quality replacement LEDs may (should) be built to have a similar light distribution to filament lamps and will therefore work well in a 'filament' housing and reflector. Ones that have only or mostly outward facing LEDs won't work so well.

I see similar effects with household bulbs (in for example pendant fittings). Incandescent lamps throw a lot of light to the ceiling but the construction of LED equivalents often have the electronics housing significantly blocking that direction and so the light output is more downward than incandescent. So even though the outputs and colour temperature are equivalent the effect in the room can be dramatically different.

(My preferred pint is Ringwood Forty-niner 😉 )

-“(My preferred pint is Ringwood Forty-niner 😉 )”

Hahah, got to try that one. 👍🍺

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Agree for the led replacement bulbs that if they are made properly to suit halogen bulb filament replacement they will be good or even better, but what I see at night on the roads are mostly cheap Chinese stuff that looks horrible.