Hey fellas. I tried to replace my front plastic turn lenses with glass ones from Sierra Madre (they said they were compatible), but it turns out they are a bit shallow for the bulbs I have. I’m not a huge electrics guy, so I don’t want to buy a bunch of bulbs that don’t work. I’ll attach a few pics of the bulb I currently have. Looks like the model number is 1157 and the type (?) is 12v 32/3 cp.
Looking for amber replacements.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated. 
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I was thinking these may work.
https://www.partsgiant.com/p33...eRRHFahoCydEQAvD_BwE
They’re 12v, but I know I’m missing something.
Besides the 12V, those other numbers are the wattage for the indicator and parking (running) filaments. 23/8 vs 32/3 means your parking lights will be brighter but your turn signals will be a little less so. They’re both 1157s so the base is the same
AFAIK, they’ll be fine, but I’m sure someone with greater electro-foo will chime in if I’m not. I’m not smart enough to know if the difference in the indicator wattage will affect the flash rate or signal relay.
There are LED ones that are fairly short too.
Thanks. Either option is awesome.
@WOLFGANG Which bulbs are those? I would love to have brighter driving and brake lights in the back.
Slightly larger globes. Unknown wattages. https://www.ebay.com/itm/312551324028 
Yup. I ordered a few short bulbs. I can’t wait to til they come.
Googled "Short 1157 bulb" and got this:
Sorry -Didn’t notice that you might want AMBER bulbs.
Re-Googled “short amber 1157 bulb” and got this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/33432...j4erFdhoC8J4QAvD_BwE
“The answers are out there”
BTW, @JoelP I had a similar problem 25 years ago when I installed year-correct 356 front directional lenses, which happen to be milky colored and quite shallow. I needed a short, single-filament, amber bulb and scrounged around every Mom N Pop auto parts store in my area until I found them and then bought out all they had (12) thinking I would never see them again. Still got 10 spares.
Ed’s post is good, too - Motorcycles use many of the same bulbs, just shorter, and those are available in LED versions, too.
One last thing - If you go the LED route for directional bulbs (because they are brighter and [supposedly] last longer), that’s fine, but often the LEDs don’t draw enough current to keep the flasher relay happy and they won’t flash. The answer is to get a different flasher that works with LED bulbs or, as I did, keep the same flasher and install 5 watt ballast resistors in parallel with the led bulbs to fake out the flasher and make it flash with the LED bulbs. Those resistors are available at Autozone/Advance/NAPA/O’Reilly auto parts.
Hope this helps…..
