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Originally Posted by 80stech
Why not use the original tails lites? or maybe get a set of replace LED lite assemblies you can play with and still have the originals to put back in? I don't think it would be hard to put some extra bulbs and dividers into the lamp asemblies. I imagine you are going to use the tailgate portion as well? What are you using for a micro controller?
Hey I just realized you are CanBus guy, what happened with that??
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I switched to smoked spyder tail lights 2 years ago because my factory ones were taking on water and both tail gate lights were taking on water, so I could build in them to mock up but if I were to actually use them like that they'd be ruined. I'm planning on using, at least at this point one of the "Arduino" line of microcontrollers. I haven't decided which for the tails yet, but for the two side markers I'm gonna use an ATTiny85. The reason why it would be hard to use the factory housing without modifications is because I want to do a grid that fills the entirety of both tail lights, so trying to get the boards into place with the current space available.
The CAN bus project is on hold for an indefinite amount of time, due to the fact that one day I was working on it and experienced all kinds of issues for weeks until I restored my backup EEPROMS for the DME and IKE, so I can't afford to do that. I'm in college and don't have a real space to work on it, and plus this isn't my "project car" this is my daily... so the downtime involved would be too substantial. Back home I'm soon taking ownership of a wrecked 4.4 that was headed for the junkyard and I'll probably try to further my work on that project over this summer. Also since it's my daily, I can't really cut up the tail lights that are still installed for obvious reasons.