Optronics Trailer Reflector - Adhesive Backing - Screw Mount - Oblong - Red

Video Transcript for Optronics Oblong Trailer Reflector Review

Today we're going to be taking a look at the Optronics Oblong Trailer Reflector. These adhesive-back reflectors offer a screw mount. For red part number is RE11RB, and for amber, part number is RE11AB. Now, the oblong reflectors are the perfect solution to either replace old reflectors on your trailer or increase visibility on your current trailer. This trailer is probably 15 or 20 years old. These have been on here the whole time. You can see they just lose their reflective property causing us to have less safety as we travel down the road because we're not nearly as visible.

Also, while they're sitting around the yard and things like that when headlights hit them, it's nice that they shine, so that way people will know where the trailer's located. Now, here's the same illustration with the red. You'll see the older one here. It's not nearly as bad as the one on the front was. It still has a little bit of reflective property to it, but the new one really shines much brighter. Not only does this make the trailer more visible, but it makes a lot nicer when we've got the nice new looking clear lens reflectors there. Now, to remove old ones, you'll need to either ...

you can see these have been riveted in place with aluminum rivets. You'll either drill these out, or if it's screwed in place you can remove the screws. Now, we recommend using aluminum rivets or a stainless steel or an aluminum screw. That way, you don't have any rusting just eventually run down your trailer. We'll get these drilled out now.

Now, these do have that adhesive backing, so you're probably going to need a screwdriver. Going to get in there and pry those off. Once we have those removed we want to clean off any of the residue that's hanging out still from the old adhesive. Once we have that cleaned up, we're going to prep it with a little bit of rubbing alcohol, and then if you need to, touch up the paint a little bit. We'll let that dry while we take off the one on the back side there. Again, we said we're going to be using rivets here to take care of our reflectors.

I'm going to poke the holes through where I want my rivets to come through. Pull back our adhesive. Then, I like to place either my rivets or screws, whatever I'm going to use, in and use these as guides to line it up with my hole. I'm going to push that on there so it gets good adhesion. Then, we'll get them riveted in place or screwed in place, and do the same for our red one on the back side of the fender. That'll complete our look at the Optronics Oblong Reflectors available in red or amber.