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Led up grade trouble shooting

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by Weeziebro, Dec 14, 2018.

  1. Dec 14, 2018 at 3:11 PM
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    maybe you guys can help. Did the oem led headlight upgrade . Repinned truck harness for turns ,purple in middle white out side . I notice now when the truck is running (headlights off)and the front turn/marker comes on my rear taillights glow along with license plate . If Iunplug the turn lights it goes away , plug one at a time back in and will only glow when they are both plugged in . I have checked with different pages onFacebook and can’t seem to find answer to y this is doing this

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  2. Dec 14, 2018 at 3:55 PM
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    I have no idea what the picture is showing. I see some mesh and red lights.
    The brake lights/license plate lights are suppose to come on with the marker lights.
    "marker" lights are to mark the corners of the truck.
    It seems like you need bulbs installed to close the circuit.
    Why would you drive around with one turn bulb unplugged?
     
  3. Dec 14, 2018 at 4:03 PM
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    I’m not driving around with any bulb unplugged I was trying to explained that the glow in the taillights goes away when the front bulbs are unplugged I think you are misunderstanding what I said . I only unplugged them to get the glow to go away . When truck is running and the front bulbs light up when I start the truck with headlight not even turned on my tail lights glow if I unplug the turn plug the glow goes away
    Tail light come on when I turn on head lights the bulb is glowing by just starting the tuck is the issue I’m having the glow goes away when I unplug the front turn
     
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    I was thinking the same I checked all connectors this afternoon and then added a temporary redundant ground off the white and black wires on both sides and still glowed . As I sit here pondering I though if I take the purple wire out to get rid of the running lgt that would rule that out at least .
     
  5. Dec 15, 2018 at 6:09 AM
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    UPDATE pulled the purple wire completely out of plug and issue solved
     
  6. Dec 15, 2018 at 7:38 AM
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    What kind of bulbs are you running in the front DRL/blinker?
    I'm running triton v6 in the rear on my work truck, when I installed them, I had one bad bulb that had to be replaced, it had a short in the bulb between the 2 filiments and whenever I steped on the brakes, the front running light and instrument lights would turn on. So it's possible that you have a bad bulb.
     
  7. Dec 15, 2018 at 11:30 AM
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    Thea are the bulbs that came with the headlights I didn’t swap them out I unplugged the purple wire in the center of the plug and everything seems to be normal now . Another guy from northeast tundras suggested it because when he did his upgrade when he turned on signals his radio actually flashed . So I tried it this morning and as of right now it appears fixed
     
  8. Dec 15, 2018 at 1:38 PM
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    That sounds like one of the filiments broke loose on one side and fell onto the second filiment, so when one gets power, it's jumping power to the second filiment.
     
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    The way they work now with purple wire pulled .start truck they come on turns and 4 way work then they go out when I turn on headlights the turns and 4 way still work . I’m not sure if the yellow drl is supposed to be lit when headlights are on or not. I did look at the bulbs when I was checking connections and they looked ok and neither appear to be brighter than another . I also pulled one plug at a time and as long as they both weren’t plugged in at the same time the glow wasn’t there . Only when they both were connected .
     
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