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Old Feb 22, 2014 | 08:01 PM
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led brake lights

so i switch out my oem brake lights for led lights.and now my brake lamp is on . is there any relay or fuse i can switch to turn it off ?
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Old Feb 23, 2014 | 11:26 AM
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Did you change out all the brake lights? Brake lamp should only come on when there are bulbs burnt out. Double check your brakes with another person.
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Old Feb 23, 2014 | 03:03 PM
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You may need a load resistor or different LEDs.
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Old Feb 23, 2014 | 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
You may need a load resistor or different LEDs.
What he said. I'd say most likely you'll need load resistors. If you really wanted to, you could grab a wiring diagram and figure out if there's a relay for your break lights and grab a relay made for LED's or modify that one so it won't react like that to your LED's.
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Old Feb 25, 2014 | 12:24 PM
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You have any pics of the led tails? I thought about buying some for my tails too..
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Old Mar 17, 2014 | 02:35 AM
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i was trying to stay away from the hole resistors . but i understand i dont know i think one of the high mount lights is off . yes i got a pic of the tail light but my tail lights are tinted it still looks good to me tho kmarqueling
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Old Mar 20, 2014 | 07:28 PM
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Maybe a dumb question, but... why would you need resistors?
Its not like they have a frequency to up keep like turn signals.
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Old Mar 20, 2014 | 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Gabru678
Maybe a dumb question, but... why would you need resistors?
Its not like they have a frequency to up keep like turn signals.
Because they dont have the same draw as the filament bulb which causes the car to think the bulb is burned out.
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Old Mar 25, 2014 | 09:52 PM
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Ahhhh well Im dumb I should have known that, its what causes hyperflash in the first place.
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Old Apr 6, 2014 | 10:20 PM
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The much simpler fix is to remove the warning light bulb out of the instrument cluster.
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