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Old Mar 13, 2015, 06:43 PM
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Help with after market tails

Anyone have any experience with these tail lights? The parking lights work but the brake lights are sporadic, then just don't work.
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Old Mar 30, 2015, 04:44 PM
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I have the same issue with mine, the right brake light works sometimes and sometimes it does not...I made a thread as well :/
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Did you try to reverse polarity?
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Are they varis? I have the varis and my reverse light do not work. What a pita
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Most of the issues with aftermarket tails have had to do with low-quality connectors for wiring. I would check and make sure the pins aren't getting pushed out of the connector when you plug them in. It's probably just a dodgy connection to the factory harness.
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Like said above check connectors. If those seam fine and after adjustment dont fix anything, you may have to open them up to check the boards. Most of these lights are made real cheap so the solder points and the circuit board traces are not done very well. I have had to open up and resolder and/or make new traces for it to work correctly.
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They look like CFL's not LED's. are they LED's?
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We were at an Evo meet last week and a friend had those same tail lights on his car.

He is also having problems with them acting up like most of you are describing.

I purchased my tail LED's from Ebay and they have been working great since day one.
But they look a lil different *see picture.
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I would check wiring connections. Could be very poor soldering
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