I recently installed LED replacement bulbs (lights) for the park/brake lights. They work great and are bright as hell. My only issue is that the front white parking lights activate now when I hit the brakes.
Any idea how to stop this?
.....Take them out !!!
Moondoggie
I recently installed LED replacement bulbs (lights) for the park/brake lights. They work great and are bright as hell. My only issue is that the front white parking lights activate now when I hit the brakes.
Any idea how to stop this?
Yes, that is a great easy fix but I like the bright lights.
Okay then...I had a similar thing happen when I put LED's in my Superformance Cobra and the fix was changing out the turn signal timer
to a modern solid state one.
Moondoggie
I recently installed LED replacement bulbs (lights) for the park/brake lights. They work great and are bright as hell. My only issue is that the front white parking lights activate now when I hit the brakes.
Any idea how to stop this?
The brake lights get a different feed than the parking lights in the stock wiring. If the brake light bulb and the tail light bulb share a ground and if the ground were poor, could the power from the brake light be going backwards through the tail light bulb(s) and through the front parking light bulb(s) to a good ground?
Thats IT! The LED lights have two sets that activate. The outer row only come on with the parking lights. All of the LED lights come on when the brakes are activated so the power is back feeding the parking lights to the front. So a diode installed on the PL wires may fix it????
Duke,
If it were my car, installing a diode in the parking light circuit would not be my first choice. The PL circuit is being energized when it should not be. Doing a workaround (the diode) might solve the immediate problem, but might cause other problems down the road and make it harder to troubleshoot future electrical problems.
It seems like you just have a poor grounding issue. I would try taking out the combo tail light/brake light bulbs, first one side and then the other and hit the brakes each time. If the front running lights don't light up with one bulb out, I would have found the light with the bad ground. If the running lights light up when either side tail light/brake light bulb pulled (one at a time), then I would suspect both brake light bulbs have a poor ground. I might say screw it and simply clean the grounding on both rear tail lights and not worry which side (if only one) is causing the problem.
Does anyone have a good recommended LED replacement for the brake light bulb/lamp? After reading this post I would rather buy a proven product. There are too many LED choices on the market many of with are suspect.