Hi Eveyone:
Tired of replacing bulbs in my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee I decide to replace all of them, except the headlights and the foglights, with LED bulbs. (I already did the same witth all the interior bulbs)
I choose Sylvania ZEVO, and was and relatively simple job. To fix the hyper flashing I install 50W 6 ohm resistors. Very bright bulbs, looks terrific.
However, I find myself in a struggle trying to replace the stop lamps.
My WK has the three bulbs tail light. The upper is a combination parking/stop, the middle is a combination parking/turn and the bottom one is the back up lamp.
Well, all work just fine, except the upper one.
The problem is the design of the tail lights. They didn't have the usual lamp socket, but a kind of circuit board where the lamps are squezzed in.
This design provides two negative contacts in the same side of the parking/stop lamp receptacle, so the LED lamp only works as parking light if I place it in a way, or as stop lamp if I install in the reverse way. The lamp never works as intended, so I have to redistribute the contacts accordingly and to do that I have to disassemble the circuit boad.
Somebody has ever take apart this circuit board? Doesn't look an easy task.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Ah.... Happy New Year for all! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Andy
Tired of replacing bulbs in my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee I decide to replace all of them, except the headlights and the foglights, with LED bulbs. (I already did the same witth all the interior bulbs)
I choose Sylvania ZEVO, and was and relatively simple job. To fix the hyper flashing I install 50W 6 ohm resistors. Very bright bulbs, looks terrific.
However, I find myself in a struggle trying to replace the stop lamps.
My WK has the three bulbs tail light. The upper is a combination parking/stop, the middle is a combination parking/turn and the bottom one is the back up lamp.
Well, all work just fine, except the upper one.
The problem is the design of the tail lights. They didn't have the usual lamp socket, but a kind of circuit board where the lamps are squezzed in.
This design provides two negative contacts in the same side of the parking/stop lamp receptacle, so the LED lamp only works as parking light if I place it in a way, or as stop lamp if I install in the reverse way. The lamp never works as intended, so I have to redistribute the contacts accordingly and to do that I have to disassemble the circuit boad.
Somebody has ever take apart this circuit board? Doesn't look an easy task.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Ah.... Happy New Year for all! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Andy