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DEAD EYE
03-02-2015, 03:15 PM
Okay so I bought some LED lights off eBay. And now when I go to turn on my headlights it looks like I need a load between the marker light and the ground in order to keep the turn signal from lighting up? Does this sound right or is there something wrong

4.3LXJ
03-02-2015, 03:17 PM
Yes, it is right. Or if you have changed them all over to LEDs you can get an LED flasher and it will work

DEAD EYE
03-02-2015, 03:40 PM
OK a friend just told me that LED lights don't like common ground and each led needs to be regrounded to the chassis
The flashers work normal but I got switch backs and when I have one led and one standard bulb, only the white lights. But as soon as I pull the standard bulb the yellow light up. They still flash, but the yellow stay on with the markers.

DEAD EYE
03-02-2015, 07:25 PM
OK so very odd when I put in the side marker led the front amber turns off and blinks like it should. But then the side marker only blinks with the headlights/parking lights on.

DEAD EYE
03-05-2015, 12:38 PM
Update, so turns out the side markers are double polarized. If you run regular bulbs they feed both sides of the LED bulbs

4.3LXJ
03-05-2015, 01:09 PM
Wow, who knew?

NW99XJ
03-06-2015, 08:45 AM
Good stuff here. Thanks for posting up your findings.

DEAD EYE
03-06-2015, 06:11 PM
Yeah the regrounding of the LED bulbs is not required.