Video Review & Installation

Hey, guys, Stephanie with AmericanMuscle.com here with the Raxiom Icon LED Tail Lights for '96 to '98 SN95 Mustangs. The Raxiom Icon LED Tail Lights are a great option for those SN95 owners out there that are looking to update the exterior of their car with a more modern exterior lighting. These tail lights offer more of a custom, brighter LED lighting setup as opposed to the plain and unappealing stock look. The factory tail lights and bulbs can give a boring stock and unappealing vibe so changing up the tail lights can really go a long way for the SN95. These tail lights are going to make a pretty big difference in the appearance of the car, and we're going to install these in a few minutes so you can see what I'm talking about. But these lights have smoked lenses so they're gonna have what I consider more of a stealthy and smooth look. But the LED lighting is really going to be bright through the lenses. This means that you can have a clean and smoked look during the day but the lights are still going to be highly visible both at night and during the day thanks to the LED running light rings so you can have the best of both worlds. So instead of having the entire tail light illuminated as a running light, like the factory set up does, these tail lights have LED running light rings around each section of the tail light. And obviously, when you hit the brakes the middle portions of the sections will light up. So keeping the running lights and brake lights separated is what creates more of that modern multi-dimensional look that these lights have. You've also got white LED reverse lights in the lower portion here as well. It kind of goes without saying that the LED bulbs are going to be brighter than your factory lighting, like I previously mentioned, so they're going to improve lighting along with appearance. This can be considered a mod that has both form and function. The LED tail lights will be brighter and have a nicer look than the factory bulbs and they're going to work on all '96 and '98 Mustangs no matter which model you have. Another thing that I do want to note, though, is that switching over to the LED lighting will have an effect on you turn signals. They're going to blink differently at a much faster speed unless you pick up a new turn signal flasher, which will modify the signal so that it blinks normally at the factory speed. These tail lights are also compatible with a Raxiom sequential tail light harness which a lot of you might already have. They're compatible with the harness because they're not going to come with new brake light bulbs so you can reuse the stock bulbs. This will be the only part of the tail lights that aren't LED. With that being said, if you would like the entire tail light to have LED bulbs, you do have the option of upgrading bulbs to the Raxiom LED tail light bulbs so you can have a complete LED set up. If you choose to do this upgrade, the LED tail light bulbs will require the use of the modified turn signal flasher. And if you would like a sequential tail light kit, you just need to make sure that you pick up the kit that'll work with the LED bulbs. A standard bulb sequential kit will not work with LED bulbs. As far as price, you're looking at spending about $350 for these tail lights, which is definitely on the more expensive side of the tail light offering for the '96 to '98 but you have to remember the LED lighting upgrade, the sequential capability and then there's always the full two-year warranty that Raxiom offers. And these are also a 100% plug-and-play upgrade, which makes for very easy install. Plug-and-play means no cutting, splicing or even any resistors are required. So the install doesn't get any easier here. You're looking at a one out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter and you can figure on spending about an hour or so to get the install completed. All that you're gonna have to do for the install is remove the trunk insulation by pulling the retaining clips so you can have access to the four nuts that are holding the tail light into place. Once the nuts are removed you can pull the light assembly away from the car. You remove the bulbs by just twisting them and since you're going to install the tail lights with the factory bulbs, we're going to leave them in the car. After that, it's as simple as locking the bulbs into the new housings, plugging in the LED harness, and placing the housings back into the car. I'd be sure to test these out before you take off anywhere since you want to make sure that they work properly. So just make sure they light up as they're supposed to and the turn signals work as well. Wrapping things up here, Raxiom's Icon LED tail lights are a simple upgrade that can provide some big appearance changes. They are smoked lenses and LED running light rings, but they are fully LED capable and will work with a sequential tail light harness as well. They're also very easy to install and you can check them out more online right here at AmericanMuscle.com