As the title suggests, I always thought my tail lights are more akin to fog lamps in brightness. Which in some ways is no bad thing to get you noticed, but it isn’t great for the drivers behind and it does reduce the relative brightness increase when you brake, as everything else in the cluster is quite bright!
My lights have a 21/5 (yellow mark up) in one part of the cluster and a 21 (red markup) single filament in the other.
Now then, if you look at the back of a light cluster (at the red mark-up) you see it should be a 5W bulb!!! So no wonder it looks very bright.
The closest we can get to it is to use a BAY15S bulb ...
https://www.uklightbulbs.co.uk/car-...olt-light-bulb-6-watts-bay15s-side-light.html
This is the same bulb as in the indicator side lights I believe.
Have a check of yours and I bet you have the same set up as I have!
Do I get a free club anorak now? (Hint hint @jonbills)
My lights have a 21/5 (yellow mark up) in one part of the cluster and a 21 (red markup) single filament in the other.
Now then, if you look at the back of a light cluster (at the red mark-up) you see it should be a 5W bulb!!! So no wonder it looks very bright.
The closest we can get to it is to use a BAY15S bulb ...
https://www.uklightbulbs.co.uk/car-...olt-light-bulb-6-watts-bay15s-side-light.html
This is the same bulb as in the indicator side lights I believe.
Have a check of yours and I bet you have the same set up as I have!
Do I get a free club anorak now? (Hint hint @jonbills)