My Taillight is broken...

[Philberto]

... so what should I replace it with? Should I keep the stock taillights, try and find some LED ones (you know, for "functional" reasons), or do something else? I know, make my own decisions, but I'm looking to hear what you guys would do.

[Trail X]

Curious... how did you crack it?

Honestly, for me, it'd come down to cost...

However, I've always liked the look of these. Hard to justify the cost in my head, especially since they offer minimal benefits (no heat, less amp draw, brighter).

[cowboy63645]

Look around on ebay, you can pick up a stock tail light for $20-$30 bucks and get free shipping on the majority of them. I would just replace it with the factory unit, unless your going for more of the "mall rated" look that is

[Philberto]

Curious... how did you crack it?

Honestly, for me, it'd come down to cost...

However, I've always liked the look of these. Hard to justify the cost in my head, especially since they offer minimal benefits (no heat, less amp draw, brighter).

Hmmm.. I like those... will have to see if Santa brings me them... If not, then I'll probably just replace stock or see if I can find similar on fleaBay.


I cracked it with a branch about the size of my wrist... was on a downhill trail with heavy brush on the right side, incline on the left, and some idiot decided they wanted to drop big piles of dirt to run their JEEP on, making the whole thing way too off-camber for my vehicle... So I was forced to drive through not 1, but 3 bushes/trees with branches ranging from thumb-size to wrist-size... I now have more than the usual trail patina, chips in the windshield (I need limb risers desperately) and a nice linear dent in the passenger's side front fender, running along the door, and ending at the back... and I have a crack in the pass tail light. It made a horrendous amount of noise when I drove through all that .

[cbbryan]

Man up! It's a truck it's supposed to happen. Dents and scratches add character. Ever heard that scars are like tattoos with better stories? Well dents and scratches are like fancy paint jobs and vinal body decals but with better stories. They usually cost less too unless you try to fix them all.

[cbbryan]

Get tail light guards and that should help.

[Trail X]

Haha... well dents and scratches are ok... but windshield chips and broken taillights are not so.

I don't think he's complaining... we all know the risks... but you can't technically have any white light coming from a tail light. I believe it's a ticketable offense.

[cbbryan]

I don't think he's complaining... we all know the risks... but you can't technically have any white light coming from a tail light. I believe it's a ticketable offense.

You could always try the tried and true ghetto fab method of RED duct tape

[Trail X]

You do have to fix things once in a while... sounds like CB's TB will end up looking like this:

[cbbryan]

HAHAHA that's awesome!
If I ever get to that ragged looking these will be my future mods:
I'll put a snowplow on the front, paint numbers on the side, Coors light on the hood, some hendrick motor sports and dupont decals, and bump some Merle Haggard. Hells Yeah! Offroad Nascar Redneck.

[MrSmithsTB]

Set for sale on the OS. Nice looking to boot. Or you could get yourself a set of OEM looking with LEDs in em. Nothing wrong with making your rig look nice, James.

[Philberto]

Oh I'm not complaining about the damage to the car. windshield can be covered by $50 deductible and the rest is alot of traul patina... I'll take a pic sometime to show you. I'm more pissed that somebody altered the trail selfishly and forced me to go around where there was no trail. Tail light guards are on my wish list now, and I've determined I'll just get a stock replacement since our taillights are the coolest looking ones I've ever seen anyways.

[bgwolfpack]

Curious... how did you crack it?

Honestly, for me, it'd come down to cost...

However, I've always liked the look of these. Hard to justify the cost in my head, especially since they offer minimal benefits (no heat, less amp draw, brighter).

Great for on the trails. Nice find James. Something else to consider.
Philberto, let us know what you do. My twin is trying to catch up.

[Philberto]

I can't justify those either for the $300+ price when there are so many other things I could get for that money... (A roofrack, for example). Maybe somewhere down the road, or if I win the lottery, or if I even played the lottery. But anyways, I'm just going with taillight guards and a new stock taillight for that side. I've always been fond of the way our taillights looked, since they're kind of like factory smoked tail lights.

[bgwolfpack]

$300!!! Nice, but screw that idea. Go cheap buddy, the twin needs to be able to catch up.

[Philberto]

Pic of the broken light... I'm more worried about leakage than anything...

[Trail X]

Oh that's not bad... fill that sucker in with some epoxy and call it done!

I also think tail-light covers would have made the issue worse because you would have made the branch 'snap' over the front tube of the protector.

[Philberto]

A good idea with the epoxy... now where'd I put the JBWeld... And as far as the tail light guard goes, I always wondered why there weren't more vertical supports to keep that from happening. I have a sneaking suspicion that the branch that did all that would have been too big to fit through the gaps in the guards though.

[cbbryan]

Even NASCAR pit crews use it. If it's good enough to hold those cars together it's good enough for you.

[Philberto]

Even NASCAR pit crews use it. If it's good enough to hold those cars together it's good enough for you.

Yeah, but their cars don't need to turn right And they don't need to run their cars through car washes. I already got condensation in it. I'm probably going to junkyard-surf for the light.