Mark Simpson

Installing United Pacific LED Lighting System

Mark Simpson
Duration:   4  mins

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If you’ve been around long enough you’ve noticed how classic car parts companies seem to come and go, but the ones that have the “Good Stuff” always stand the test of time. When it comes to an LED lighting system for classic cars, unquestionably United Pacific is an industry leader, with its complete line of LED lighting solutions and over 7,000 parts in its catalog for the classic car enthusiast. Getting its start manufacturing LED lighting system components for the trucking industry taught the company everything it needed to know to make parts that last. And bringing that knowledge to the classic car industry has made them an instant success.

When our good friend Shawn complained about the intensity of his headlights and the brightness of his taillights, we felt compelled to make his classic 1973 early Ford Bronco shine a little brighter. Shawn’s Bronco is no cream puff, in fact it’s all business and he wanted a new set of headlights that would help reflect his Bronco’s aggressive good looks. The choice wasn’t easy as United Pacific’s line of 7” round headlights seems endless, but soon he determined a new set of lights that included 10-LEDs and 950 lumens of power each all in a virtually indestructible polycarbonate housing.

Our attention then shifted to upgrading the rest of this little Bronco’s exterior lighting, and United Pacific didn’t let us down there either. The new LED front and side marker lights were a perfect match to the factory original lights, only a lot brighter. And the rear lights brought our upgrades to the next level. The rear brake/turn signal lights offer a user selectable capability to either come on all at once or sequence across the lens for a real custom look that gets noticed on the road.

All of United Pacific’s parts are built as good as they look and are certain to deliver years of great performance.

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For many of us, the first time we saw LED tail lights, or lights on a vehicle was like the backs of semi-trailers. You know, the reason for that is these, you know the LED bulb was able to take a lot of abuse, in a tractor trailer kind of set up, where there's hardly any suspension. Those light bulbs were notorious for going out, and flickering in and everything else, but LEDs changed that, you know I remember the first time I saw them, they were just amazing. You know, I thought, wow, those are cool. Next time I saw him was on the backs of the luxury cars. You suddenly saw them on the backs of, of Cadillacs and Audi's and other, you know, high luxury models, and it was like, wow, those are neat. Nowadays, you see them on almost every car on the road. And you know, one of the people that were, behind that years ago is United Pacific, and United Pacific has, for years made LED lights for tractor trailers, and semis but then suddenly they decided they wanted to be, into the classic car business too, because surely you could get LEDs on your, you know, modern car, but, for the same advantages can be brought into the classic car, world too. Thankfully, you know, they responded by creating, over 7,000 different products for the classic car industry. So whether you want to set a full set of LED lights, for your ride, or, if you want a full steel body, for a 32 Ford Coupe, they've got it. So what we're going to do today, we're gonna to actually, you know, upgrade our 1973 Ford Bronco, with a set of LED lights. And that includes, you know, a great set of led headlights. The owner has selected a, you know, he was surprised at how big, a selection they actually had when he went to, figure out what headlights he wanted to put in. He's decided that, you know, he has kind of a, he's not a purist, he's not a pure restoration kind of guy who wants to, kind of aggressive and modern look to it, so you selected this, this, this handsome looking led headlight. And to that, we're going to pair that with, you know, all new led side markers, and then these great front turn signal, parking lights that have 35 LEDs in each one. And then we're even go out back, and we're going to upgrade the tail lights, to a full LED tail lights, and what's great about this. It gives us the option of, either we can have all of the LEDs come on at once, or sequentially they can move across the lens. So we're going to add a great set of LED tail lights. Of course, whenever you make any sort of LED conversion, you need to swap out the flasher, to an electronic flasher. What the flasher does, is allows the flasher to actually operate, cause the traditional flasher in a car, requires a certain amount of resistance, that's created with the filaments in the old style bulbs, in electronic flasher, rather than count on resistance, to make that on-off connection that a flasher has. It uses just like an internal timer. So it like on for a split second then off. So it's a great addition, you know, and it will ensure that our, our, all of our turn signals and flashers operate properly, and they don't do that either that hyperflash, or that just don't work kind of thing. So with that, you know, we've got a complete selection of, of United Pacific products. Also check out, go to their website check out, and see what they have available for your ride. You might be surprised.
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