Need help with sidelights

[luisdeburnay]

I have just recently tried installing LED sidelights, but have only managed to get the ones on the inner side of my headlamps to work, the LED's on the outer side show hyper flashing even though I have a load resistor installed? Any ideas?

~ cheers



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[propane94]

Does it bring a bulb warning on the dash??

By load resistor, do you mean the bulbs have one built in, or have you added one yourself??

Have you tried swapping the bulbs around, is it perhaps bad bulbs??

 

[luisdeburnay]

It does bring a bulb warning sign on the dash and I got load resistors with the LEDs that I've put in after. There's no point swapping the bulbs cause they both flash and I don't have any more LEDs for comparison


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[luisdeburnay]

I could try taking my inner Out I guess and use those


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[propane94]

How are the load resistors put in?? Are they in series or parallel with the bulbs??

 

[luisdeburnay]

Parallel


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[propane94]

Try swapping them over, what year is your car??

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[luisdeburnay]

09 plate, the strange thing is the inner bulbs work fine, I have no idea why the outer ones flicker


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[Jakepearce97]

09 plate, the strange thing is the inner bulbs work fine, I have no idea why the outer ones flicker


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I think that our seats have a CANBUS system built in so you must get a CANBUS LED bulb or they won't work correctly and bring up a fault on the drivers dash so could be that?


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[.-Sam6J-.]

Inner is non canbus, outer is Canbus or Vice Versa

 

[propane94]

Inner is non canbus, outer is Canbus or Vice Versa

Inner is Canbus, outer is not. This is dependent on model year as I have a pre FL and both mine are Canbus.

 

[luisdeburnay]

Ohhh cheers so I should get canbus ?


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[Jakepearce97]

Ohhh cheers so I should get canbus ?


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If you have LEDs you will need to get CANBUS LED lamps for them to work properly, however I use osram intense blue halogens and they work fine


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[propane94]

If you have a load resistor I don't see why normal LED's won't work. As Can bus LED's have the load resistor installed.

You have a load resistor on every LED right?? All 4??

As Jakepearce97 said, you can get "white" bulbs instead, not as bright but same effect.

 

[Jakepearce97]

If you have a load resistor I don't see why normal LED's won't work. As Can bus LED's have the load resistor installed.

You have a load resistor on every LED right?? All 4??

As Jakepearce97 said, you can get "white" bulbs instead, not as bright but same effect.

Yeah if you have the resistor it shouldnt make a difference I agree with propane94 he knows what he's talking about! And yes the white bulbs aren't quite as bright but not really a huge difference so if you continue having a problem I would recommend getting the osrams night breakers if you want brightness, or even the Phillips blue visions however they're a bit more costly.


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