{"id":5585,"date":"2016-03-11T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:53:16","slug":"my-car-deautokey-reverse-led-euro-taillight-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/my-car-deautokey-reverse-led-euro-taillight-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: DeAutoKey Reverse LED Euro Taillight Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the Euro-Spec LED Taillights that are OEM, I purchased them from ECS. Here&#8217;s the post on those.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lights on DeAutoKey, Currently $49.99 &#8211; http:\/\/deautokey.com\/product\/reverse&#8230;led-taillights<\/p>\n<p>I agree with others that the Euro Tail lights lack a brightness when backing up. Why do you want brighter reverse lights? Better visibility in what you&#8217;re backing up into. The Rear camera does auto-brighten darkness a bit using software but it&#8217;s not a very wide-open lens from an f\/stop perspective so more light = easier to see where you&#8217;re backing up Second, better visibility in that people know you&#8217;re reversing. The Golf R is a short car. When I back up, people usually don&#8217;t know I am if they&#8217;re driving through the parking lot so this light really does shine the road behind you and really tell everyone there&#8217;s a car there. It&#8217;s almost blinding to look right at it. Third, these are LED versus bulb which means they use less power (not a huge deal) but they will last longer assuming the kind of lights are high-quality circuitry.<\/p>\n<p>The minor shortcoming of these? Well, if you look very closely at the housing during the day, you can see a bit of yellow because these are longer than the stock bulbs and yellow around the LEDs versus clear glass bulbs so it&#8217;s quite easy to see them but you have to know what you&#8217;re looking for. A normal person walking by won&#8217;t notice the off color.<\/p>\n<p>Are they brighter? YOU BETCHA! These lights are insanely bright. If they were slightly less bright, I&#8217;d actually be okay with that. You get what you pay for!<\/p>\n<p>Packaging:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1531\/25105151089_521b718f8d_b.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">Lights:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1561\/24842160974_dcba7d4855_b.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1519\/25472721055_56c9b4d114_b.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1523\/24842159674_51e7f6c859_b.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DeAutoLED Reverse LED Euro Taillight Replacement - How To Guide - Golf R MK7\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8IHgwAdR00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have the Euro-Spec LED Taillights that are OEM, I purchased them from ECS. Here&#8217;s the post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:02:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"71278e57-36e2-4e75-8af4-f2dccf6d0545","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:02:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcSeOVzbiTnWK9PLcz20FRQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-car","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1s5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5006,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/my-car-mod-13-mk7-european-spec-volkswagen-led-tailights\/","url_meta":{"origin":5585,"position":0},"title":"My Car: Mod #13 \u2013 MK7 European Spec Volkswagen LED Tailights","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I go over this, the text below on these mods are being posted to an online Volkswagen community so I make a few assumptions when talking about the modifications to my 2016 Volkswagen Golf R. 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