Hi,
My brother followed me home the other night and informed me that my high level brake light has a few LED's not working, how can this be fixed?
Ive tried searching but cant make much sense of any of it!
Thanks
Peter
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Hi level brake light?!?!?!?
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briankerrys47
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Re: Hi level brake light?!?!?!?
Simlar to me Peter,but mine is not below 50% yet 
,I think we may have to remove the whole spoiler O:-) some post on forum but I have not found it yet,when Sanji,Raj,Richard are back from shopping I am sure they will have the answer O:-)
,I think we may have to remove the whole spoiler O:-) some post on forum but I have not found it yet,when Sanji,Raj,Richard are back from shopping I am sure they will have the answer O:-)-
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Re: Hi level brake light?!?!?!?
Oi! How did you know I was shopping?
It's a spoiler off job. Not sure if you can get inside the lamp to repair it or you need to buy a complete replacement.
Facelifted lamp details here on Realoem
Video available.
Right, off to put the shopping away......
Richard
It's a spoiler off job. Not sure if you can get inside the lamp to repair it or you need to buy a complete replacement.
Facelifted lamp details here on Realoem
Video available.
Right, off to put the shopping away......
Richard
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briankerrys47
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Thank you Richard as always ,after watching the video and looking at the price :blink: I feel a headache coming on,mind you if Jeegness! Spots this he will be hospitalised or Sanji will leave the country when phone rings 
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Re: Hi level brake light?!?!?!?
There is a simple answer for this one people.
get access to this LED light cluster, and get some one to press the brake pedal...
The LED's that light up... put a multi meter across the LED legs and measure the voltage...
If you get lucky, it will read 12/13 is volts, meaning that a 12volt LED is in place here.
It may well use lower voltage LED's with an additional resistor in series to drop the voltage.
THEN, you go to MAPLIN's and get some more LED's to replace the whole lot, noting the internal direction of the LED guts to re-solder the new ones in place.
The reason to change the lot, is that if a few have failed, then the rest won't be far behind most likely, and... the new ones may be a different brightness to the old ones.
It is also possible that the soldering at the legs of the LED's may have been dodgy and gone open circuit, and the joints being re-flowed may also solve the problem with no expense at all.
Hope this helps.
get access to this LED light cluster, and get some one to press the brake pedal...
The LED's that light up... put a multi meter across the LED legs and measure the voltage...
If you get lucky, it will read 12/13 is volts, meaning that a 12volt LED is in place here.
It may well use lower voltage LED's with an additional resistor in series to drop the voltage.
THEN, you go to MAPLIN's and get some more LED's to replace the whole lot, noting the internal direction of the LED guts to re-solder the new ones in place.
The reason to change the lot, is that if a few have failed, then the rest won't be far behind most likely, and... the new ones may be a different brightness to the old ones.
It is also possible that the soldering at the legs of the LED's may have been dodgy and gone open circuit, and the joints being re-flowed may also solve the problem with no expense at all.
Hope this helps.