Interesting Wheel Lights

Found these from a Japanese site. Looks really cool.

The go right onto the axle, eh? Interesting.

Looks like they might get melted from the heat off the rotors

i bet they're barely visible unless it's pitch black.

ok now imagine hitting a bump and having that rubbing on ur rotor.

bye bye lights.

It looks like it mounts to the disc brake shroud. Thats a good idea. Heat wouldn't be an issue as the shroud itself doesn't get hot. It looks like its just some LEDs in a housing with an angle bracket on it to attach to the shroud. I'm suprised some manufacturer hasn't come up with this before. I can just see that ADDICTEDTOICELED guy putting the LED gems in there so the color of the wheels would change with the rest of the lighting.

someone over in englad did that with some gems... he put pictures on the ICELED forum. i would have to take off my wheel to get a closer look at how i could accomplish this, but i think i could pull it off

Yeah they do that around here with spinners...

They take and H3 bulb and attach it to a bracket which is attachedto the backing plate (no heat issues) and when its turned on it makes a cool affect with the spinner.

those were the lights I was telling you all about a few weeks back. Inside the wheel lighting =) Looks cool, but you can only see it from the side.

Have have a black light shine into the fenderwell and paint the well some UV reactive color....

Have to keep cleaning it though...

The pics aren't working right now, but if your talking about what I think you are, I saw someone with those at a local car show and it looked really cool.
EDIT: those aren't the lights I saw but they are cool too.

knoxvilleo wrote:

The pics aren't working right now, but if your talking about what I think you are, I saw someone with those at a local car show and it looked really cool.

I was at Hot Import Nights in Miami last month. They had those on display. Its a company called "hotglow" in Orlando , FL theyre not for sale yet but will be shortly according to them and they want to be the ones to install them for profit....er, um, i mean liability reasons.

Where have I heard of hotglow before? I have been to their site (if you can call it a site) before. Ooooh maybe you told me about it.

Some of the new Toyota concept cars have those wheel lights on them.

Fine-S:

cool

forget about the lights.. look at that car!!!

That's a crazy futuristic car.

ADDICTED2ICELED wrote:

forget about the lights.. look at that car!!!

yeah it's fugly!

A2I: I think you need to get some ICELEDS to go around your wheel well so the pattern that goes around your car goes around up over the wheel and then back down to follow the car again.

phil: been searching around the toyota site much lately? ...lol

Those wheels look awesome on the toyota.. Those should be spinners though.. and put a heavy weight on the bottom of the spinner so that the solid part always stays in the direction it's facing while the rest of the wheel moves, so you just see the 2 vented area's spinning and the rest stays still.. that'd be neat =)

iceled planned for in wheels and wheel wells

I think any weight imbalance in the wheels would cause a nasty out of balance condition.

My spinners make the car shake at around 60 to 65 mph.

Mav wrote:

Those wheels look awesome on the toyota.. Those should be spinners though.. and put a heavy weight on the bottom of the spinner so that the solid part always stays in the direction it's facing while the rest of the wheel moves, so you just see the 2 vented area's spinning and the rest stays still.. that'd be neat =)

nah.. not too cool looking. the coolest part about spinnas is when you stop at a red light... EVERYONE can't help but look... you can't resist it out of the corner of your eye...

and the bearings wouldn't allow it to stay still like that... too much dirt on the road get in there and cause it to have too much friction.