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LED Rear Light Question........


Peter P

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Hi Guys and Girls,

 

I recently fitted my secondhand LED/carbon rear lights. I didn't get a chance to drive the car until this morning, when I noticed the indicator on the dash is flashing quickly, and the noise is faster than it was before with the normal facelifts?! :search:

 

Is this normal when you run LED lights instead of normal bulbs?? I checked all round and they work fine, albeit faster than the normal blink if you know what I mean! ;)

 

In the past, this is what happened when one of the lights wasn't working properly, but doesn't seem to be the case on this occasion?!

 

Any help from people would be greatly appreciated. :thumbs:

 

Cheers.

 

Pete

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Same happens to mine, got mine from blue angel, heckler is fixing mine for a small fee :)

 

Thanks for this :thumbs:

 

Guess I'll be asking Heckler to sort mine out as well at some point then! ;)

 

Might get the ring on my drivers side cluster changed into a second brake light while I'm at it! Lol.

 

Will PM Heckler at some point soon.

 

Thanks again.

 

Pete :)

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Guest suprageek
Hi Guys and Girls,

 

I recently fitted my secondhand LED/carbon rear lights. I didn't get a chance to drive the car until this morning, when I noticed the indicator on the dash is flashing quickly, and the noise is faster than it was before with the normal facelifts?! :search:

 

Is this normal when you run LED lights instead of normal bulbs?? I checked all round and they work fine, albeit faster than the normal blink if you know what I mean! ;)

 

In the past, this is what happened when one of the lights wasn't working properly, but doesn't seem to be the case on this occasion?!

 

Any help from people would be greatly appreciated. :thumbs:

 

Cheers.

 

Pete

 

Buy 2 load resistors off eBay they come with scotchlok connectors all u do is connect them to the indicator wire on each side, problem solved, there about a fiver for 2

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Thanks. Presumably this won't solve the dash warning light issue though? The description on that relay thread advises you need resistors to solve that issue.

 

Will sort something out.

 

Cheers guys! :thumbs:

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dash warning light issue wont be anything to do with your LED lights

 

You can either

 

Add in additional resistors to the light loom (unnecessary) Or you can replace the Flasher replay in the dirvers footwell (higher resistance) takes 2 mins versus soldering in Resistors

 

I have the LED's in my car, I never got any dash warning lights

 

Maybe see what engine code the car is throwing

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No worries. It's only lighting up when I put my lights on? Think it's a bulb out warning light??

 

Maybe the signal is too weak on the lights as well as the indicators??

 

Will try looking again when I get a moment.

 

Cheers again for the advice guys. :thumbs:

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No worries. It's only lighting up when I put my lights on? Think it's a bulb out warning light??

 

Maybe the signal is too weak on the lights as well as the indicators??

 

Will try looking again when I get a moment.

 

Cheers again for the advice guys. :thumbs:

 

LED rear lights have almost no load in comparison to stock lights, so the bulb failure ECU see's it as a bulb failure. you can either put some load resistors in parallel with brake lights, or just remove the bulb failure ECU, or the bulb. That what I did.

 

For the fast indicators - you'll need a 50w, 10 Ohm resistor - and put it in parallel with the indicator.

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LED rear lights have almost no load in comparison to stock lights, so the bulb failure ECU see's it as a bulb failure. you can either put some load resistors in parallel with brake lights, or just remove the bulb failure ECU, or the bulb. That what I did.

 

For the fast indicators - you'll need a 50w, 10 Ohm resistor - and put it in parallel with the indicator.

 

Cheers for the help mate :thumbs:

 

Only trouble is all the load resistors I've looked at on eBay are 6 Ohm? Lots are 50w, but none are 50w and 10 Ohm. :(

 

Does it have to be 10 Ohm??

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