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Old 09-06-2018, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by wpoll View Post
The whole point of changing the tails lights to LED is to ditch the unreliable bulb sockets and holders on the OEM fittings. Just changing to LED bulbs gives you all the grief of LED without eliminating the crappy sockets.

I've "fixed" the OEM sockets and fittings, which is one way to eliminate the near-constant tail/brake bulb warnings. Others have fitted aftermarket LED tail light assemblies to the facelift cars; depending on the exact LED chosen, the wiring and programming changes are not too bad. But it's not plug-and-play.
I took mine out, used some scotchbrite to clean up the corroded areas on the taillight and bought some new bulb holders. Everything works as new now.

Why not go that route? The ebay LED lights look like garbage on them.
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