Brake light bulbs

[SuperSaiks]

Some of the bulbs on the brake light bar on my 2000 RT/10 are burnt out. Seems like a few are out from the left side.

Anything I should know about them, what type of bulbs are they? Any type of procedure to remove and replace them etc.

thanks

 

[00prowler]

3157s asross the board ....Look in the howto section here..Not a 5 minute job...I was going to put leds in mine until I saw how involved it is...I will do it when I can spare a few hours..Al

 

[SuperSaiks]

I checked the how to section didn't find anything?

 

[00prowler]

http://forums.viperclub.org/rt-10-g...its-killing-me.html?highlight=tail+light+lens This may help..Sounds like a real pain...Cant wait..Al

 

[treesnake]

It is an operation to change the bulbs.. The whole back panel needs to come off.

When I did change them I used a red LED in the center of the three bulbs on each side. When you light them up, the center LED is very "sharp" and the rear of the car looks like "snake eyes". I will try to find a photo..

 

[dave6666]

It is an operation to change the bulbs.. The whole back panel needs to come off.

Sounds like I should put on that wing I've always wanted when doing brake lights...

 

[00prowler]

Sounds like I should put on that wing I've always wanted when doing brake lights...

LOL

 

[00prowler]

It is an operation to change the bulbs.. The whole back panel needs to come off.

When I did change them I used a red LED in the center of the three bulbs on each side. When you light them up, the center LED is very "sharp" and the rear of the car looks like "snake eyes". I will try to find a photo..

I would like to see your light setup...Cool idea...Al

 

[treesnake]

I brought my car home today. After 5 mos. in shop. I will take some photos with the "snake eyes"

I also "painted" (sprayed with clear containing a couple drops of color) all the light lenses. Photos tom. (If I remember from all the excitement of getting my car back)

 

[SuperSaiks]

I'm talking about the rear brake bar on the back of the rt/10 on the roll bar, I heard its all one LED and costs around 400 bucks,.. they are not individual bulbs.. Anyone else know otherwise, pics maybe

 

[Ratical2]

Go to this site
mopar parts - home

and you will find the parts catalog for you car

http://www.mopar.com/pdf/viper/01sr.pdf

You can the find the part number for the Center High Mount Stop Lamp (CHMSL)

In this case it is on page 54, Item # 13, P/N 4642 571 " Lamp Highmounted Stop

It looks like it is not seviceable. Meaning it is a Sealed LED Assembly.

Here is the result from OEM parts for less:

OEM Part For Less

OEM Catalog Item Number 4642571 MSRP $382.00 Price $274.80
Rear lamps High mount lamps


I have not purchased anything thru this site so I have no recommendation. I have been able to get the same prices listed from my dealer with my VCA membership discount.

Good Luck!

A little trivia for the GTS Hi-mount stop lamp. I hand built the first 200 prototypes for evaluation. I still have some unloaded PCBoards. It consist of 30 Leds ( 12 years ago we needed that many, we can do the same light output with one LED now) 4 resistors, a diode and two wires. We sold this for less than 13 dollars. Our customer placed it in the back housing, inserted a reflector, sealed the assembly with a Sneaky Pete Lens and sold it to Dodge for an unknown price. But, over the parts counter the cost of the completed assembly was $415.
Incredible isn't it?