[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?

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?

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?

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. :rofl: But hey- good that you can laugh ab it! :thumbup:

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.

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.

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

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