Tail Light Bulbs

Tail lights are invaluable for driving safety. They indicate your vehicle’s presence on the roadway and enable you to communicate with drivers behind you. They alert other drivers that you’re stopping when you step on the brake pedal, and let them know you’re turning when you flip the turn signal lever. Tail lights also reveal your location on the road at night and during inclement weather. Without functioning tail light bulbs, other drivers won’t know your intentions or be able to see you in darkness or when visibility is reduced because of fog, rain or snow, which could result in a collision.

Back-up lights are just as important for safety as tail lights. Back-up lights provide the illumination needed to guide you when you’re backing into parking spaces, driveways, and dark garages, and they can show where the curb is when you’re doing a K-turn and turning around on an unfamiliar street. Without working back-up light bulbs you could hit another vehicle, an obstacle, or even worse a pedestrian, when driving in reverse. And even if you have a back-up camera it’s not going to be much help if there’s no light behind your vehicle.

A non-functioning tail light bulb can also be cause for law enforcement to issue you a ticket for an unsafe vehicle. Clearly, driving an unsafe vehicle is dangerous, and tickets are expensive. The smart move is to be prepared - learn what bulbs fit your tail lights and back-up lights and have replacements on hand if one should fail, and for that you’ve come to the right place. We have replacement tail light and back-up light bulbs for all popular makes and models, at great prices. We offer conventional incandescent bulbs, and brighter halogen bulbs, but consider upgrading to LED bulbs. LEDs offer many advantages over incandescent bulbs, and if your car didn’t come with them, we have the LEDs to improve your lighting, driving safety, and vehicle operating economy.

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are semiconductors that produce light when current is applied. They’re brighter and more energy efficient, have a faster rise time, last much longer, and are impervious to vibration when compared to incandescent bulbs. Brightness and faster rise time are the attributes that are most beneficial for improving safety. Brighter bulbs will make your vehicle more visible to other drivers and faster rise time will alert them sooner when you’re braking. LED bulbs light up 0.2 seconds faster than incandescent bulbs, which may not sound like much, but when you consider that at 60 mph a car travels 88 ft. in one second, that 0.2 seconds can give a driver behind you almost 20 ft. of additional stopping space. That could be the difference between a collision and stopping in time.

Along with increasing your safety, LED tail light bulbs are wallet friendly. They last 50,000 hours or more, far longer than incandescent bulbs. Although they’re slightly more expensive initially, you’ll more than recoup your money in the long run because they’ll be the last tail light bulbs you’ll ever have to buy. Today’s pothole strewn roads can be tough on incandescent bulbs. An incandescent bulb has a filament inside a glass bulb containing an inert gas. Electrical current is applied to heat the filament until it glows. But that delicate filament is sensitive to vibration and continued shocks can weaken it and cause the bulb to fail. In contrast, LEDs are solid-state and unaffected by vibration, so you can drive over the roughest terrain without any worries about bulb failure.

LEDs also use much less energy to operate, which means more miles per gallon on gas-engine cars, more miles per charge on electric vehicles, and no worries about draining the battery and losing your lights should you be unfortunately stranded by the side of the road and need to leave them on or flashing. However, because they draw so little power, some LED bulbs can cause turn signals to flash too fast on some vehicles and cause dashboard bulb-out warnings on vehicles with CAN bus systems. You won’t have those problems with most of our LED tail light bulbs because they’re equipped with built-in load resistors. You can install these bulbs with confidence that you’ll get great performance without “hyper flashing”, warning lights or error messages.