Hey y'all! Was doing some thinking today when I was down at the 4 Wheel Parts place and was looking at their lighting options. Instead of adding more lights to the rear for reverse, cause I can't see a thing, what about just upgrading the bulb for more wattage?

 

Honestly i would just mount some cheap fog lights under the back bumper wired to the reverse lights.

 

I switched my reverse lights to led, much brighter and whiter light.

 

Why not? I've put 50W versions of the 1156 in my reverse lamps for that very reason. The wiring is a bit light, but I figured the duty cycle was low enough to get away with it (I also have rear-facing PAR34 floods, but I don't use them in town very often. The 50W bulb is perfect.)

Do not get the halogen version - they're too hot! Bear in mind it's an enclosed housing.

(I also installed a cutoff switch, so I can kill the 50W lamps and back up on the PAR34s. Why? If I'm going to be in Reverse for more than 20-30 seconds, I don't want to overload the wiring. Replacing a total of about 20-25W with 100W tends to overload things, unless you want to pull a new front-to-back from the fuse block. I already had to put in an additional relay so I didn't blow out the switch...)