Third Brake Light LEDs failed
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Joined: 02-06-2010
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From: Shreveport, LA
Third Brake Light LEDs failed
I bought four multiple-light LEDs in March 2010 for my high-mount third brake light from:
Jacky Ng of Markham, Ontario Canada
at the following eBay listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...AQ:MOTORS:1123
The bulbs are listed as having a lifetime warranty. Well, I'm about to find out how good her warranty service is! All four worked fine when initially installed. I just noticed that only one works OK now. One is totally dead. Two others flash, and when I looked directly at them only some of the LEDs in the assembly actually light when the bulb is flashing. I wrote to the seller, and she told me to send them back to her in Canada for replacement, which I am about to do. I thought LED lights were so good that they would last longer than the life of the car! Am I the only one having this problem?
Doctuh
Jacky Ng of Markham, Ontario Canada
at the following eBay listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...AQ:MOTORS:1123
The bulbs are listed as having a lifetime warranty. Well, I'm about to find out how good her warranty service is! All four worked fine when initially installed. I just noticed that only one works OK now. One is totally dead. Two others flash, and when I looked directly at them only some of the LEDs in the assembly actually light when the bulb is flashing. I wrote to the seller, and she told me to send them back to her in Canada for replacement, which I am about to do. I thought LED lights were so good that they would last longer than the life of the car! Am I the only one having this problem?
Doctuh
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Joined: 02-06-2010
Posts: 580
From: Shreveport, LA
Yeah, now I know!
I had thought all LEDs were super reliable. However, I heard that Chinese factories manufacture to precisely the level of quality specified by the purchaser's price point. I guess this purchaser didn't want to pay much. In case the replacements fail, where can I get better quality third brake light LEDs in the future? I also prefer them to spread the light more instead of looking like single points. I thought that's what the ones I bought would do, since they each have multiple spots of light coming out, but they don't look that way from a distance.
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Joined: 09-27-2010
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From: Scranton, PA
You are correct. I spoke with an importer a couple of weeks ago, and he says that the Chinese factories frequently deviate from the engineering specs without consulting with the purchaser.
