I have been pondering this for some time, the high level brake light was brought in as a safety feature, allowing vehicles further back to see your brake lights.
Many manufacturers made this light an LED type which has a faster response time, instant on if you like, the difference between LED and a traditional filament lamp can mean many meters of road covered during the time it takes to reach full brightness.

Land Rover with the Freelander seem to have the concept back to front, LED brake lights with a lethargic CHMSL (Centre High Mounted Stop Lamp). So I set about and experimented with various LED lights.

The standard off the shelf LED replacement type were not very good at all, the light pattern didn't fit the aperture and a very poor result was obtained, then, last week I discovered these on fleabay and though, hmmm give them a go.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151304493440?_tr...EBIDX%3AIT

They arrived this morning and out of the box things looked promising, so I set about modding.

First of all remove the trim from the inside of the tailgate, a good tug is all it needs and it reveals some holes, through these you will see a white clip at either end of the lamp housing, press these and the light will pop out, lower the tailgate and remove the lamp and disconnect the washer hose.

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It isn't a legal requirement.
If it is faulty it would fail the MOT, however, if it is disconnected from the circuit and not working then it wouldn't be an MOT fail

The LED I have fitted lights as fast as the other brake lights, in daylight there seems to be little difference, at night it does appear to be brighter, I would like to put it side by side with the standard light and see if there is a difference from say 50 metres away.

Taz did you buy a white one or a red one, wouldn't think it matters as it is a red lenses but want to make sure. Swmbos top light doesn't work so was going to check if it was connected but found you post and thought mmm might give that a go.

Chris

I did it with both, I bought a cheaper red one to experiment with and then I could do the same to the White one.
I have the red one fitted on the car as with my red car it looks better, you can't see it.
If you buy those led strips there are two versions, the White LED is brighter but will obviously need a red lens, the red LED although not as bright is still very good and works with both.
A word of caution, the series resistor has been covered in heat shrink, bad idea, it gets way too hot, I cut off the heat shrink to allow it to cool sufficiently, obviously keep in mind the leads to the resistor are 'live' don't let them short of anywhere.

Looks good though and worth the effort, it's easy enough

Thanks for that, might look at a couple of different sellers uk based, reading some of the feed back over the past week some have burnt out or started to smoke/set on fire, don't think swmbo will be happy with that maybe to do with the heat shrink on the resistor but will definitely do the mod and just a heads up for you re the possibility of catching fire.

The brake light on fire will get you noticed