FZ6 turn signal bulb type?

Laurence243

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I want to upgrade to LEDs but I can't find this info anywhere. I've looked through the materials I have as well as googling but I can't find it.

What size bulbs are the turn signals in an 08? The brake light is an 1157 so I'd imagine the signals might be 1156 but I don't know
 

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Fronts are 7443, rears are 7440.
The housings are designed for incandescents though, so don't be surprised when the leds you swap in appear less bright than stock.
 

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Thank you for the info! I'll see what the guys at TRS have to say about the brightness thing. I hate incandescent bulbs on vehicles..
 

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Try to get bulbs that throw the light around in a wide pattern, to still utilize the reflector. It's not like a headlight where you're trying to hit specific spots to make a specific beam pattern, but the incandescent is putting out light in every direction but the base, so if you get an LED that's just forward-facing (away from the base only) it's going to be a dot in a lens.

I've been using superbrightleds for years now and almost never had an issue. I have whatever their widest-angle bulb is in my rear signals (and had them in my taillight and front signals before I got an integrated LED taillight and flushmounts up front) and found them to be plenty bright. They also sell the plug-and-play LED-compatible flasher pretty cheap ($7ish IIRC)... much better than resistors that draw the same power and are prone to burn out like incandescents.
 
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