Does anyone have a tutorial on the LED tail liht installation? I looked through this forum but can't seem to find anything. I have a mk1, thought it would be pretty easy, just unplug and replug all wires. I there are some spots that don't have plugs....after I plugged everything in the light was just dead, so I plugged in my old light and that is dead now too...I am assuming it's a fuse?

please help, I'm not an idiot...I just don't have a personal garage to work in so I need to get things done right the first time =)

btw...one of mine came chipped in the corner...damn!

 

ok no one??? so i figured out it was the fuse..I replaced and now the light still blinks fast...i think I might have mixed up the bulbs when I replaced them....

 

If it blinks fast or gives you codes, you need a resistor to force the car think the old lights are there.

 

Well it blinks fast because somethings wrong either the fuse is blown again or the light are switch. I'm trying to just get a diagram of which bulbs go where on the led lights.

 

If a fuse was blown the lights wouldn't come one at all. It is very common for the discount LEDs to require resistors to function properly.

 

I have the 2001 I thought resistors weren't needed. I'm going to try and get my oem working and
see if it blows a fuse again. Maybe I do need resistors.

 

Here's mine for my 2003..the small sockets on the ends (orange/brown) are not connected...just inserted to keep water out...I put electrical tape over those connections to prevent a short circuit...

I also did the LED Bulb Flasher Relay swap...

 

Dude USE SEARCH there are MILLIONS of threads that give you STEP BY STEP

 

I guess I do need resistors. The led lights keep blowing the fuse

 

I did. There wasn't **** that showed exact wire locations.... Just stuff on what resistors etc.

 

Yours look Kinda different than mine. Which sockets are used? I have one dual bulb socket, single clear bulb sockets, one orange bulb socket, and the small turn signal looking socket. The only ones that I was using were the dual socket to led dual socket, the really small turn signal style to led small turn signal... And the orange socket to led socket that's in the same place as the orange socket and they keep blowing a fuse.

 

thanks, I was looking on my iphone and couldnt really see the photos. so everything is connected but the small brown orange wired small turn signal wires?? why would they have the small wires on the led??

maybe that;s why I kept blowing a fuse? I'll have to try again tomorrow.

 

Connecting the little wire will blow the fuse. Attached below is an image of the wires to connect where.

You may or maynot need a flasher relay if you have hyperblinking on the turn signals. If you do then you can buy them here..

superbrightleds. com. part #CF13GL-02


Does your car have Porsche Stability System and factory spoiler that deploys at 75mph? If it does have PSM and factory spoiler then you will need to buy load equalizers to trick the computer into thinking that it has bulbs connected to it. Somehow the PSM/ABS are connected to the tail lights and at 75 mph when the spoiler deploys, the dummy lights will light up. Buying the load equalizers will take care of that.

hope that helps

 

if I don't connect the little wire, how will those side marker lights work?

 

The work, and if you read the many many posts you would see exactly a step by step and part #s to use, trust me man, search