LED tail lights

hi. i have a 2000 blazer and ive found led tail lights for every other car except mine. i found them for the pickup but not the blazer.  do they even make them?

YES!  they do!  i'm looking into getting them myself.   I'll get you a part number and info as soon as they are in my fingers.  A friend of mine is getting them for me, he does custom work for a living.  :)

yes that would rule! ive been lookin for those forever it seems!!!!

i got these off ebay and put them on and took them right off. i saw them on a white blazer but didnt like them on mine.


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agent305 are you looking for the bulbs themselve or the taillight housing itself. I've been looking for the bulbs for a little while, I want to find the led bulbs for all my lights(if possible)

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ORIGINAL: Dabber

agent305 are you looking for the bulbs themselve or the taillight housing itself. I've been looking for the bulbs for a little while, I want to find the led bulbs for all my lights(if possible)

You can buy the LED bulbs themselves off eBay, or even PepBoys.  They are a couple bucks a peice, unless you buy them in bulk.  He's looking for the whole taillight assembly.  For example, here's one for the S-10.  He's looking (and I am too) for the whole thing for a blazer.

Hey they don't look half bad.

I've been trying to find that setup for the blazer for 6 months and still no luck.

I found the JDM black to match the trim...
I never really thought of the LEDs though, I think they look too much like the stock taillights...

Supposadly LED's light up milliseconds quicker then the average bulb .. they look pretty awesome too.. 

dont you need tochange the voltage to use the LED lights

yea i wanted the whole assembly, i already got the led bulbs. i just changed my flasher, i didnt use a load resistor or anything like that. but i still dont understand why they make leds for every other truck except ours!!! kinda frustrating

I really just wanna light up the truck better. Just to make things clearer for anybody trying to see me at night, I wanna make sure when they are actually looking ahead that these bright *** lights will let them know someone is in front of them. Around this area people seem to rearend you more than anything.

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ORIGINAL: BlackBlaze

dont you need tochange the voltage to use the LED lights

Not necessarily.  They will still function but if you don't get a load resistor or change the flasher you won't be able to tell if the LED's are burned out or not from inside (the blinker doesn't speed up like with burned out stock bulbs).  I can't remember the technical details on how this works but i'm sure someone will chip in.

Those ones for the S-10 look bad ass. My buddy actually has a set of those on his truck. I've been DYING to see them make some for the Blazer but no one appears to want to make them. After summer starts and things calm down I might attempt to make some, maybe open a market of my own if it's not too expensive lol. The ones for the S-10 really aren't that complicated, he had to change the flasher for the LED's but that's really it.

Do any of you know of  parts companies like LMC Truck that i could get catalogs from? I like the stuff in LMC, but i'd like to look around more. Also, anyone know of companies that would sell OEM parts for 50s Plymouths, by chance?

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ORIGINAL: Lilcheef
 The ones for the S-10 really aren't that complicated, he had to change the flasher for the LED's but that's really it.

I just bought some LED front turn signal bulbs for my Blazer, but I'm having the flashing problem.  You said your friend actually changed the flasher module, rather than using one of these?  What exactly did he get to resolve the problem?  Thanks for your help!

All that you need is a heavy duty flasher relay.  These relays are timed circuits instead of the amperage triggered circuits.  Bad part is it won't tell you when you have a bad bulb, but a quick visual every so often will keep you in check.

If they are LED's then only one LED will go out at a time and you will still have others left in there thus your bulb pretty much will never burn out. If you are talking about the main turn signal, then yes if you got those LED Load resistors they should work, but you may have to change the flasher module/relay. If it is just the sidemarker flashing light, you need to make sure you got non-polarized LED's since the Blazer switches the polarity of those bulbs to make them work. Hope this helps.

I don't think you need both load resistor(s) and a change of the flasher, just one or the other.  I hear that load resistors can get really hot though, so a flasher may be a better option.

The reason load resistors would get hot is that it is a resistor that is resisting like 25+watts per bulb since the normal bulbs are like 26-30watt bulbs and the LED's only draw like 3-5watts. Some LED taillights won't light up because the system thinks the bulb is burnt out and won't send power to the bulb since it draws so little wattage/current. This is the  reason for load resistors, pretty much they trick the light system into thinking there is a bulb there and therefore the lights get the correct amount of power. Hope this helps.

I am not sure if you would need both the load resistors and the flasher module, the only reason why I mentioned that is because some systems (not blazers) need them from what I have heard from multiple sources to get the bulbs to light up right and then to flash at the correct speed instead of super fast.

The load resistors are most likely needed for the vehicles that tell you, you have a burnt out bulb.
 
Other than that, they'll slow the flashing down... Which is just as easilly done with a heavy duty flasher... I guess which one you want to use depends on which one is easiest to do, lol.

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ORIGINAL: lennyblazer

The reason load resistors would get hot is that it is a resistor that is resisting like 25+watts per bulb since the normal bulbs are like 26-30watt bulbs and the LED's only draw like 3-5watts. Some LED taillights won't light up because the system thinks the bulb is burnt out and won't send power to the bulb since it draws so little wattage/current. This is the  reason for load resistors, pretty much they trick the light system into thinking there is a bulb there and therefore the lights get the correct amount of power. Hope this helps.

I am not sure if you would need both the load resistors and the flasher module, the only reason why I mentioned that is because some systems (not blazers) need them from what I have heard from multiple sources to get the bulbs to light up right and then to flash at the correct speed instead of super fast.

 
I purchased these tails and used  360 degree LED bulbs. I had to install inline with the turn signal wire the load resistor.


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I recently went the All-LED rear tail light route on my 2000 Blazer and had the fast turn signal problem.  Pairs of the 3157R lamps at AutoZone were $16.99ea (if you can find a store that has them in stock).  Hazard lights worked normal speed though.  Wasn't in the mood to splice in the load equalizers which were $12/pair so instead I went to PepBoys and bought a replacement EP29 flasher $12.99 to replace the OEM Siemens one.  Flipped the glove box down and replaced the flasher (behind a damn green strap) and it works like new again and the LED turn signals work great (and hopefully won't burn out).  Just make sure you get an EP29 flasher that says "LEDS" on the flasher itself...

I replaced the front marker/turn signal lights (the small ones) with the 4-LED lamp, those were easy to find, at Advance Auto Parts... but since AutoZone is all out of the 3157R's I haven't been able to get the front lower big turn signals replaced with LEDs yet.  Now when I hit the brakes or use the turn signal (even with the 3157 incandescent bulbs still in the front) the interior lights don't dim down, really shows how much less current those LEDs use.
 
I love LEDs.  Next, I will hopefully replace all the interior bulbs with mixed red/blue/white LED bulbs for a cool/hot effect.  That will be pimpin.

You'd want the 3157NA or 3157A for the fronts... Unless you want to have chats with your local law enforcement...