LED bulbs

[yukondoit]

I've been throwing around the idea of changing my regular bulbs to LED's. Its gonna be for the talilghts; Reverse, stop/brake. My plan is to paint my stock tailights candy red, and I figured LED bulbs will give it a better look. Its gonna be a custom look without alot of $$ going into it. So here is my question, will the LEDs work without any problems? Plug and Play? I assume they will but if not then I'm just going to leave them alone.
Here's an example of what I want my tailights to look like. Thanks trick26. (Brandon)

 

[tsb09000]

I had led bulbs in my taillights and lost my cruise control. I didn't use any type of resistor or anything though, which should have fixed the problem. I had one go bad so I just switched back to regular type bulbs. I still have leds in my reverse lights though. The candy red should look good though!

 

[yukondoit]

Yeah thats what I'm somewhat worried about. But my original thought was to put them in my reverse lights just to see they would be.

 

[MikeTheApeman]

Do you actually use your reverse lights to see when backing up? If so, forget LED's there.

 

[yukondoit]

Yeah i use them, but its not like its a necessity. I figure it would look kinda cool, maybe be a little more safer as well. We could all use a little more light out back, especially if we got super dark tint.

 

[yukondoit]

Well I bought LED bulbs, put them in as brake lights, work for a couple hrs. Last night got on the road and realized when I hit the brakes, they barely lit up. So I ended up putting the old ones back in.