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10-08-2006, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by vl20sas' post='331835' date='Sep 7 2006, 09:41 AM

i saw here,that many users has ordered led tail lamp,and i think a listle help is good.
first of all i want to tel u that was a problem when i instaled may tail lamp,
I instaled lamp,conect to the car conctor ,and SURPRISE ,the led was amaizing,but when the engine was turned on the intensity of led disapear,when engine off,led was shaining.
My conclusion was that, that power rezistor (that conect direc to leds )that come whit the lamp,has not enought negative power,and need to conect to other car negative source(ANY).

PLEASE someone explain this to me. I have had my leds installed for over a week and they now dim when engine is running. Am I supposed to cut the black wire coming from the small resistor and connect somewere. I have read this post a hundread time and I cant figure it out. SOMEONE SMARTER THAN ME PLEASE HELP :'(

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10-08-2006, 08:12 AM

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Add a negative wire to the negative wire of the resistors, as far as I understand. That way you get more ground connection.

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10-08-2006, 12:08 PM

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They flicker when the engine is running....

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12-12-2006, 08:41 PM

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I just installed the LED tail light but I've got a "left/right tail light malfunction" message. Anyone got that too?

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02-01-2007, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Bambi' post='366805' date='Dec 13 2006, 01:41 PM

I just installed the LED tail light but I've got a "left/right tail light malfunction" message. Anyone got that too?

Me too...It always appear the left rear light warning message which goes on about 1 minute,then disappear...
Who konw the reason and the way to fix it?

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03-24-2007, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by andy.yip' post='386224' date='Feb 1 2007, 12:46 PM

Me too...It always appear the left rear light warning message which goes on about 1 minute,then disappear...
Who konw the reason and the way to fix it?

That is normal when the car gets started up and all the electronics are "leveling" also the resistors work, as we posted here many times, the message is in untill you start your engine and roll off. I used to stop and pop out of the car and rush to the rear that " Oh My Geee it says not working and it was beautiful LEDS shining so no hussle no worry, it works like a charm, mine is not even wired as vslas's and was installed by official BMW garage, they thought they're from Hella for BMW Germany

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05-01-2007, 12:19 PM

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Greetings everyone, please help!

I just got a set of new tail lights, however, the new tail lights have new 7-pitch cord attachment (sorry for bad english, not sure how its called correctly), the current/old lights are 6-pitch cord, and they are pretty different format. So in the other words you cannot connect current cord into the new tail light. Did I miss some part # for new connector type? Please let me know how you guys got it installed.