Video Transcript for How to Set Up Your 7440/7443 LED Bulbs on a 2009 Acura RDX

Brad Hello neighbors. It's Brad here at etrailer. And today on our 2009 Acura RDX we'll be installing and taking a look at the ARC lighting replacement, LED tail light bulb. Now this is gonna be a great replacement for your tail lights. And this one specifically is gonna be for your 7440 and your 7443 bulbs. And it's gonna be a direct replacement that pops in and gives you great light right out the gate.

So now we have our LED on our passenger's side and the regular incandescent on the driver's side. We're gonna be able to see the big difference here. So I'll go ahead and hit my brakes. Here, you can see our brake light illuminated and the great part about the LEDs is it's a nice clean light. It's also giving off 600 lumens and this one has LEDs 360 degrees.

So in a housing like this it really does project that light really well giving it a cleaner and modern look compared to your incandescent lights, but also, you'll get more of an efficient use of your electricity as your LEDs take less and produce more light. So great upgrade for your vehicle. If your tail light burns out, you might as well move up to an LED and the lifespan generally will be longer from the incandescent as well. Now you can see here on our passenger's side when I hit the brakes that the actual brake light portion of the bulb is burnt out. So that can be a safety issue if people can't see that both the lights are illuminating it kind of lessens the chance that they'll see us.

So we're gonna go ahead and replace that. Now we're gonna be changing out the bulb on an Acura RDX and yours may be different to gain access to the bulb. Sometimes you will have to remove the tail light. Sometimes you can pull your interior panel back and gain access to the bulb. kind of depends on the manufacturer, but changing the bulb out's gonna be the same concept.

So we're gonna go ahead and gain access to our bulb and I'll show you how to do the changing of it. So I've gone ahead and pulled our tail light out and it's gonna be generally kind of similar to this one where you're gonna have a plug that goes into the bulb but sometimes it's easier to keep that attached. So you have leverage to twist this and you're gonna see this one, it's seen better days. It is burnt out. One of the coils is still fine. It's working there, but when we hit our brake lights it's not, so normally, good rule of thumb when installing bulbs you don't really want to touch them, more so on headlights but just something to keep in mind. This one's burnt, so it doesn't really matter. But putting it in, just kinda be careful or wear some gloves, so your oil doesn't get on it. So with the LEDs, it's not as crucial to not touch the bulbs. In fact, you can see this one's actually protected with a nice little cap, but just again, rule of thumb to always, you know, touch these light bulbs with protection because your finger oils as they get heated up will actually cause the bulb to break sometimes. But as you can see, that just pops in place. You can do it either way. Doesn't really matter because the way that the pins are designed like you can go either way and it's gonna work. So we'll just push this in place, make sure it's snapped in. And then we'll go ahead and put this back. And sometimes there's gonna be notches that are different sizes. So we have one large one, just align those. And then twist that. And that should be in place. So we'll go ahead and test it before we get this all buttoned up just to see how it looks. So now I have my running lights on and we can see that the low beam is working. So the next thing to check is when you hit the brake pedal it should have that high beam illuminate nice and bright. Now that we know that it's working properly we can go ahead, button this all back up and then replace the other side, so it's matching. And that was a look and installation of the ARC lighting replacement, LED bulb for the 7440 and 7443 on a 2009 Acura RDX..