rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how you can prevent people from
hitting you and prevent yourself from hitting other things when your driving
your car by what's in this little box because inside this box are tiny little
super-bright LED backup light bulbs realize that these backup lights serve
two purposes one at night when you put it in reverse and back up
they throw some light out so you can see a little bit better but more importantly
they serve to warn others that you are backing up now of course at night most
people are gonna see it because even the stock ones are relatively bright but in
a daytime they might miss these that's where these handy super-bright LED bulbs
come in you can see that the stock bulbs put out a reasonable amount of light but
these ultra bright leds put out a ton more first we're gonna measure what
comes out here with a light meter simple device you just turn it on measure
what's coming out it's five thousand seven hundred and thirty seven Lux Lux
is a measurement of light now in a lot of cars you just pop the bulb in and out
this one's a little more complicated you gotta open the trunk and I'll take this
little cover off so we have some working room inside here then we check out this
little panel and on this design you can't reach the back up like bulbs from
the inside you got to take the whole plastic assembly off it's not that hard
but you do have to have a deep well ten millimeter socket to get over the giant
rod that has a ten millimeter bolt that you can unscrew as you go inside here
you can see there's one of them there's three of them you gotta take off there
it is right there you just put an eye and on balton then after you remove the
nuts inside the whole thing comes out here's a backup light bulb so we'll flip
it over it's hiding inside here so we twist it out there's a backup light bulb
and we merely check out the ball plug in the other one there it is done that one
really goes back into it's a little hole and clicks in now it's in there
then the hole somebody goes in you can see there's the rods that go in the
holes sometimes you gotta wiggle them a little bit, they're always fun getting in
start on the bottom and work your way up there it
goes then before I put all that together we'll plug the electrical connection in
the back which is right here that's the easiest thing to do of course they got
one hand on a camera one out here it's a little harder there we go then we'll
start off the car and put it in reverse and see if the lights working
and indeed it's working and here you can see the new one is so much better than the
old one let's measure it as you can see it's
6447 lux and as you can see with the human eye it's more than Lux the LED
it's so much brighter to the human eye then that incandescent bulb is there's
really no comparison you're gonna see this I'm much better than you're gonna
see that so of course now we have to do that side but first we get the nuts and
put this side in tight so it's tight and that's a water seal too, you want it nice
and tight cuz you don't want water leaking
it done we'll pop the cover on the that side then go on the other side to that
side same routine pop off the cover unbolt
the nuts and wiggle the whole thing off off it comes then get your new bright LED
one then reach inside they got the back of light bulb plug it in just like the
other one and snap it in hole make sure the seal is clean you can see there's
some dirt on this you want to wipe the seal clean so grunge doesn't get in the
way then we just plug it back in so we'll do the bottom one on the right
then the top left sometimes they're hard to get in and out, there goes and yet again
before we put it all back together let's snap the electrical connection in
there's one end yeah and we'll start it up and as you can see now both sides are
nice and bright warning backup lights I know we can finish both it all up with a
little light so we can see where everything goes and put the panel back
in now you have super-bright backup lights so people can see that you're
backing up backup lights help you see at night yeah but their main purpose is to
keep other people from running into you because they don't know you're backing
up even in bright daylight you're gonna see these ultra bright LED shining in
their face so they'll have no excuse if they run into you saying oh I didn't
know you were backing up these babies shine and since this is mechanic Monday
I'm giving away a set of these ultra-bright LED backup bulbs to have a
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randomly by computer to get ultra bright backup lights so peeople
will no longer run into you and you'll be able to see better at night when
you're backing up, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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