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Review on 🚦 Enhance Safety and Style: RUXIFEY Sequential LED Side Mirror Turn Signal Light Smoked Right Left Lamps for Ford F150 Expedition, Lincoln Mark LT - Amber Compatible Design by Chris Long

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good product but design issues

I am writing this review for the RUXIFEY Sequential Side Mirror LED Turn Signal (mirror back) but it also relates to the Ruxifey Side Mirror Sequential LED Turn Signal. (in front of the mirror). I originally ordered a front serial turn signal, but after reading the instructions I realized that in order to connect it without splicing the wires in the mirror housing, I also need to order rear LED turn signals that have output connectors for the front LED (Ruxifey doesn't supply a connector for the pigtail - probably designed that way to encourage you to order their rear units as well). Then I ordered the rear LEDs, but when I tried to install them I found that there were three errors (a) the input connector is in the middle, not the inner end, (b) the LED block is much thinner , and (c) the pins for the input connector are much smaller (see attached image). These three things mean that with this length of cable in the mirror housing provided by Ford, the connector will not reach Ruxifey's input pins, and even if it does , the connector plays on the much smaller Ruxifey pins. On the passenger side this problem can be avoided by drilling a hole in the stiffeners in the mirror (see attached picture) and running the cables through these holes (first you need to pull the connector housing off the cables and then squeeze the paddles so that they grab the Ruxifey pins and then thread the wires through the holes before reattaching the connector body to the wires). On the drive side, even if you poke a hole in the ribs, the wire doesn't reach the rear facing Ruksifeya. I found the best solution was to solder the pieces of wire to the Ruxifey (see attached image) and then connect them to the Ford wiring (thus eliminating the reason for buying those rear facing Ruxifey units in the first place) . In case you forget what goes where, with the Ruxifey device lying horizontally on the table, the black wire goes to the north-south pin and the green wire goes to the east-west pin. All of these problems could be eliminated if Ruxifey's rear-facing LEDs included a pair of pigtail extensions that matched their pins to Ford-sized pins. The actual Ruxifey blocks seem to work fine (so far at least) but if I had realized how much of a hassle it is to attach them I would never have bought them. Also (this isn't Ruxifey's problem) getting the mirror glass out without breaking anything is a pain - the first side took forever, once I figured out how to do it the second side was a lot easier.

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