Smoked LED tail lights

[taosx5]

[QUOTE=Ricky Bobby;863387]OK SO I NEED HELP:

I installed my tails last night, hooked everything up, used the capacitors from Lightwerkz, and when I turned on the tails tonight, they don't light up! The running lights on the LED's anyway, the blinkers both work and when I hit the brakes all the LED's light up! QUOTE]

I have read this thread with great interest. I just got in some Spyder LED tail lights from Tunersdepot. Great looking lights. I had everything in and brake and blinkers work fine. No back up or tail lights. I thought I had blown a fuse so spent an hour reading each and every fuse and could not find a tail or brake fuse.

I read about possibly the pins not matching up so will check tomorrow and see if that might be the problem. Any other ideas?

[Ricky Bobby]

switch the pins around like i did, that was my problem, my blinkers and brake lights worked but not the running lights.

[taosx5]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

switch the pins around like i did, that was my problem, my blinkers and brake lights worked but not the running lights.

Thanks Ricky Bobby, I just did that and got the running lights working but still cannot get the back uplights to work. I checked the back up light plug and simarly it has space for 3 pins but OEM plug only uses two. I swapped pin 1 to pin 3 since pin 2 is the back up light but could not get it to work.

Any ideas?

[Ricky Bobby]

hmmm back up lights i wouldnt know, i'd maybe try a different bulb (from your stock lights) maybe the ones that shipped with it are junk?

[taosx5]

WOW who woulda thunk it? I bought LED lights and it said it came with bulbs so it is supposed to be a Plug/Play. However the back up lights are not LED and use a standard bulb which it did not come with.

That was an hour of time wasted trying to figure it out. I bolted em in, pluged and you can't really see the bulb while it is mounted. Go figure.

If that is the stupidest thing I do all month, I'l be good. Lights work great especially with bulbs in them. Ha.

[PropellerHead]

Originally Posted by taosx5

WOW who woulda thunk it? I bought LED lights and it said it came with bulbs so it is supposed to be a Plug/Play. However the back up lights are not LED and use a standard bulb which it did not come with.

That was an hour of time wasted trying to figure it out. I bolted em in, pluged and you can't really see the bulb while it is mounted. Go figure.

If that is the stupidest thing I do all month, I'l be good. Lights work great especially with bulbs in them. Ha.

That's pretty funny. Especially since this post from Unit107 is directly above yours. But hey- good that you can laugh ab it!

Originally Posted by Unit107

They were plug and play, as avertised, with one exception, they DO NOT come with backup light bulbs. So before you replace the lenses on your tailgate and replace all the trim, swap the bulbs from your old backup lenses. Unlike myself, you will not have to disassemble your tailgate trim a second time to get your backup lights functioning.

[Ricky Bobby]

glad you got it sorted out and it wasnt anything bad!

do you get the strobing sequence on startup though like i do? my LEDs on the tails flash after the car is started, for bout 2-3 seconds, almost like an ambulance lol.

It doesnt cause any errors and the tails operate fine though so I was just chalking it up to the LKM doing a startup check.

[taosx5]

Everything was working fine but when I did get the tail lights working I noticed the right side was kind of doing what you described but went away when I started the engine. I had been slammed at work to get ready to head out of town for a few days so I just parked her and have not checked in several days.

[magnum1]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

Ok, what? I didn't know we had adaptive brake lights. So no LEDs.

Hi
I have a 04 X5 , do all of them come with the adaptive brake lights? if not, how do you know if you have that function?
If I do have the adaptice brake lights, are there LEDs that don't need the Cap?

Thank you
Jim

[rfdude]

stupid question but is there a write up on how to get the inner lights on the tailgate out? The outers are simple but before I start into mine on the weekend thought I would ask.

thanks,
Bill