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Originally Posted by Packofcrows
So in other words, no matter how I buy them, the LED's will sh!t on me eventually compared to oem ones?
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If you're talking about LED lights in general, the answer is no. Not all LEDs crap out. Some of them last a really long time. It depends on the quality of the components used and how they're installed. With the Valentis, I don't know if it's their design or that they're using really cheap boards. They're not the only one with this problem. I've seen pics of Buddy Club tails with rows of lamps out also.
However, the Tom's tails are also LED. They don't seem to be losing boards the way others are. Depot may be using better components, or it may just be that they're not trying to cram 50 LEDs into a single housing.
Tom's do have a problem, though. The heat from the drivers melts the black plastic along the top of the light inside the outer housing, opening a gap for light to escape. Mine have this problem. Eventually I'm going to open them up and fix it, but a $480 set of lights shouldn't do this.
Here's a pic (not my car) of the problem:
