[video!] LED Rear Reflectors .... or using ramps can be sketchy
HuntingPudel
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Never been a fan of those plastic ramps. The steel ones may be janky looking but they tend to not scoot out like the plastic ones. 
Here's my pro on the lighted reflectors. Added visibility, which is great. There is a "cool factor" to them.
My Cons: The first is purely cosmetic, but has to do with the character of the car. The MME's directional indicators blink on and shrink off. where the lights in the reflectors grow on and blink off. It would be nice if the led reflectors also blinked on and shrinked off. Next, the electrical connectors are not weather-tight connectors, so I can see corrosion happening and the lights failing at some point in time due to moisture ingress. And the last one is one of my heebie-jeebies as an electro-mechanical engineer: The electrical connection passes through an unprotected sheetmetal orifice.
Overall, I think they're col. but there aree some small improvements that can be made.
Here's my pro on the lighted reflectors. Added visibility, which is great. There is a "cool factor" to them.
My Cons: The first is purely cosmetic, but has to do with the character of the car. The MME's directional indicators blink on and shrink off. where the lights in the reflectors grow on and blink off. It would be nice if the led reflectors also blinked on and shrinked off. Next, the electrical connectors are not weather-tight connectors, so I can see corrosion happening and the lights failing at some point in time due to moisture ingress. And the last one is one of my heebie-jeebies as an electro-mechanical engineer: The electrical connection passes through an unprotected sheetmetal orifice.
Overall, I think they're col. but there aree some small improvements that can be made.
