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LED in the door **UPDATE**

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#1 ·
i took my jeep in to have the Led lights turned on. They did and ESC update and said that should fix it. It will Not fix it. The TIMPA has to be reconfigured. A simple flash will not fix the issue. Jeep customer care now has a policy and procedure that they can send to the dealer that tells them step by step how to reconfigure it. Mine works great now.
 
#81 ·
With your lights turned on, you can look up there and see a faint bluish light. My dealer did everything sans listening to my advice on how to fix them. In the end I pulled the door panels and rewired them to the window switch lights.
 
#84 ·
Odd, this seems to be a Laredo X issue but not limited to early productions necessarily. My Laredo X has a build date of April 2011 and I have this same issue. In fact, the sales person described this feature as one of the "cool" things about the interior and I've yet to see it. Will need to have them address this at the first oil change.
 
#91 ·
Well I just got back from the dealer and they say my Laredo X doesn't have them. How do I get a build sheet with or without the LBRS code? Not sure if they tried the reconfigure or not, figure I need some more info before I go back and ask them to look at this again. Also like someone else said when I look up in the holes I can see a blue wire but nothing that looks like LED lights. Pictures would be great
 
#92 ·
Here is two shots of the led above the map pocket. I used a mirror so I had the camera pointed at the mirror which is angled up to see the led. You can also pull out the driver's side window controls and you will see one blue and one black wire going to the led. You can fit your hand in there and trace the wires to the opening and you should feel the led housing. If anyone needs better pictures let me know and I'll try to get some better ones.

The greenish thing is the led, you can see the blue and black wires going into the housing

Here's another shot, don't mind my purple mirror
 
#95 ·
2nd trip to dealer, drove out with lights still not on. They said that yes the lights are there, but they tried the reconfigure method and no luck. They then called Star and when they discussed it there was no remedy for this.
I printed out descriptions, the schematic and took my laptop so they could see others have had them fixed. Any one in the Tampa area had this done? Maybe I could try a different dealer but I'd hate to get the same run around.
 
#96 ·
Like some my dealer couldn't grasp the concept of reconfiguring my TPIM so I decided to fix the problem myself. I rewired the LED drivers to the window switch lights so that they are on anytime switched power is on. I took the lazy route and just shoved the wires into the connecters as a temporary fix however two months later everything works fine. I used dto.vftis.com/mopar/disclaimer.asp to find out which wires go where although it was a PITA.

The first step is removing the two fasteners holding the door panel to the door. Both fasteners are hidden behind covers which are easily pried off. The door handle fastener is a philips screw whereas the grab handle fastener is a 7mm bolt.


Next I removed the window switch assy., which can be pried out with your fingers and disconnected the wiring harness

Next I removed the door panel. This is the most difficult part. The door panel is held on by numerous friction plugs which are very stubborn the first time you remove them. I started in the lower outside corner and just kept working my way around. Quite a bit of force is needed to remove the panel.

Disconnect the connecter in the upper front corner of the panel

The backside of the driver side door panel

Now for the connections, all I did was run a jumper wire from the LED drivers to a switched power source.
On the drivers side I connected one side of my jumper to Orange/Tan wire on the 4 wire harness labeled as C302 - (DOOR_DRIVER) 4 WAY - Driver door handle lamp driver on vftis.com.

I connected the other end of the jumper to the Pink/Yellow wire on the window switch connecter labeled as SWITCH-WINDOW/DOOR LOCK-DRIVER (EXPRESS WINDOW) - LT. GRAY (DOOR_DRIVER) 14 WAY - fused run/assy. relay output on vftis.com.

I then taped both connections in place.

I repeated the process on the passenger side, connecting the Orange/LG wire on the C307 - (DOOR_PASS) 4 WAY connecter - passenger door handle lamp driver to the Orange/Tan wire on the window switch connecter labeled as SWITCH-WINDOW/DOOR LOCK-PASSENGER - GREEN (DOOR_PASS) 10 WAY - passenger window switch illumination driver.
The lighting is horrible however you can see the door handle light and some of the map pocket light.

I hope this helps and if anyone has any questions feel free to PM me.
 
#99 ·
Well i called David in S.C. and he said exactly as stated in the earlier post. He said the confusing part is that theres no module for the ambient lighting so you have to do the reconfigure back to factory settings and that made them work for them. I got an appt. For next friday at my dealership to try again so ill just wait and see.
 
#103 ·
I noticed that at first with mine. I could look up there and see a very faint light. I pulled the led out and put a direct 12v source to it and they lit up. After three failed trips to the dealer, the last of which they told me they fixed it when they hadn't done anything, I just rewired the led drivers to the switch bank lighting.
 
#102 · (Edited)
So now what? Dealers gonna try mine again friday so im curious. OH! that reminds me, when i spoke to dave in SC from earlier posts he did say he had one jeep that the drivers side light didnt work but the passenger side did. He said that it turned out that on that side the lights werent in properly and the needed to be repositioned in the holes. Doubt it your prob though since neither side is working but if its just dim have them check that out.
 
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