Cree Back Up Lights........

mattjones said:

Will do, but it looked straight forward. Open up your liftgate and you'll see the screws that hold the taillights on.

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I'll have a look tomorrow. Still excited to see pics of the finished project.

goodinblack said:

Hey Matt.......How are you?

Install was really simple.

Just took the lamps off, pulled the socket, removed the 7440 bulbs, and stuck the LEDs in.

Nice and bright, and a clean light.


@ Felix.

That is Really nice.

What HID kit is that? Is it a complete kit? Please provide a link for future reference.

Also, what hitch cover iss that? That is not a Street Scene, and it is not a GM Cover up style.........

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Cover? ^^^^

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It's just a Xantec 35W 8k HID kit from good 'ol eBay. I cut the original connector off of my reverse light bulb and spliced in the red/black cable from the HID kit. Extremely easy to do and it's SUPER bright. I have LED reverse lights in the escalade and it just doesn't even compare to my old tahoe or current avalanche's reverse lights with these HID's.

^I thought the cover on Felix Tahoe was the street scene?

Nope that cover is from eBay and I got it color matched from my paint guy for like $30. The street scene one is much cleaner BUT I do like it more then the bulky factory cover from GM. I ended up selling it to another member on here when I upgraded to the Esky/Denali bumper as that is BY FAR the cleanest hitch cover of them all.

I was right about cover.

Thanks for the information Felix.

No prob brother!

wow! nice,i like that that, i might even do that to mine

Got the lights in today! Pretty good shipping from VLED's--I ordered them Sunday afternoon and got them in the mail on a Wednesday. Install was super easy, as most people are saying. It's actually detailed in the manual on page 5-59:


Install takes literally 5 minutes. The only reason I took any more time than that was because I was stopping to take pictures for you guys.

So first we open the tailgate (yes, I'm basically just posting this pic for the sticker):


And can easily see both screws (Phillips head, btw):


The first picture includes the instructions so from here on out I'll just post the rest of the pictures without explaining each step:







And now, the part you've all been waiting for--Before:


...And after:

Notice how much brighter the cars across the street are. In the second picture you can even see a van in the driveway.


I have NO idea what's reflecting in the grass in this picture, and now I'm really curious.



So far I haven't had a chance to really experience them except turning the truck around and reparking it in the driveway, but you can tell from the pictures how much brighter these lights are. VLEDs had them for $40 and I was able to find a discount code online which saved me like two bucks. Whatever, I'll take it.

Let me know if you'd like me to upload higher resolution versions of those pictures or if you'd like me to take any more pictures.

@mattjones, those look awesome!

Thanks a bunch for the pictures. I'll probably do this within the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for the detailed post Matt. Think these lights could be used as fogs? They certainly appear to be brighter than the oem bulbs. If they fit then it may be worth a shot.