Another tailight lamp request

JimNH · Apr 29, 2026

I'm lazy and just want to change the tail lamp bulb to an LED. Searching found many DIY LED boards and such but I just am looking for a positive ground/earth 1157 type that has a white light for the license plate. Superbrights has one but it's negative ground.

Anyone got a P/N or source for my lazy butt?

concours · Apr 29, 2026

JimNH said:
I'm lazy and just want to change the tail lamp bulb to an LED. Searching found many DIY LED boards and such but I just am looking for a positive ground/earth 1157 type that has a white light for the license plate. Superbrights has one but it's negative ground.

Anyone got a P/N or source for my lazy butt?

You looked here?http://www.norbsa02.freeuk.com/goffyleds.htm

JimNH · Apr 29, 2026

concours said:
You looked here?http://www.norbsa02.freeuk.com/goffyleds.htm

Yes. My headlight came from him. Interestingly it ran hi beam on both positions until he sent me, at no charge, an LED lamp for the blue indicator, then it work correctly.

Fast Eddie · Apr 29, 2026

Goffs LED stop and tail light bulbs are great.

You don’t say what year your bike is, but if it’s a late one with the big square light as fitted to T140s then Goff also does a special bulb for these big lenses and they really are very good.

2WheelsUp · Apr 29, 2026

Call Greg Marsh, I bought one from him. Lucas brand, replaces the existing bulb, inexpensive and works great. I believe he has a batch of them.

JimNH · Apr 30, 2026

I'll try one from Greg.

acadian · Apr 30, 2026

Does Goff respond to emails? I ordered/paid for a bulb and have received no reply to queries, just curious if this is normal for him

JimNH · Apr 30, 2026

acadian said:
Does Goff respond to emails? I ordered/paid for a bulb and have received no reply to queries, just curious if this is normal for him

He replied to me when I had a problem with his headlamp LED and sent me the fix no charge.

concours · Apr 30, 2026

I've always had great response from Mr. Goff.
E-mail part numbers to him, with all pertinent information, quote comes straight away.
The right stuff, quickly shipped.

JimNH · Apr 30, 2026

So I looked up the Lucas replacement LED and some reviews said there's not much difference between the tail and stop brilliance. Any real world from the members?

Desmopower · Apr 30, 2026

I tried an LED bulb (Red tint) in my mk3 and found the results not much different than running a standard bulb and the licence plate lighting was worse.
I then fitted Paul Goff's LED taillight board into the standard set up, a bit of fiddling around but the results were brilliant so to speak.

concours · Apr 30, 2026

JimNH said:
So I looked up the Lucas replacement LED and some reviews said there's not much difference between the tail and stop brilliance. Any real world from the members?

I know that you said you only wanted to drop in replacement, but if proper lighting is what you're after, this will do the job well for you.

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