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jezbellfarm

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How do have just purchased some LED lights for my 1986 Defender 90, should be plug and play.:rolleyes:
With the rear stop and tail lights one light will work on side lights but no brake light. When the other light is plugged in niether work at all. The old lights still work and the new LED front side lights work.
With the indicators the near side works when offside indicator is engaged the hazard lights come on.
The original flasher unit has 4 pins the LED flasher unit supplied only has 3 pins?
Yours thoughts would be gratefully recieved
 
How do. The kit is probably for a Defender not a Ninety.
Sorry can't offer any meaningful advice as I managed to talk my son out of fitting such things to his Ninety.
Which kit did you buy?
 
Check polarity of each cable on a battery then wire into place.

That relay does not sound like a LED style. They some times have a knob on the top to rotate to get the dad light to flash
 
LED's only work when +and - are the right way round... Incansdesant (std) bulbs work either way.

If one side works and the other doesn't swap the wires over (+ to -) on the one that doesn't work.
You need a voltage meter/digital multi meter and a friend. Check that when the brake pedal is pressed that 12V comes to the wire/connector on the lamp.
Check that when the lights are on that 12V is present on the correct wire/connection.
Use the body as the ground when testing.

When all of this is correct do it again using the earth connection/wire.
The front lights send power to the bulb and the black/earth wire is connected to the earth point on the bulkhead (or should be).
When I fitted my front LED bulbs I connectd my earths to the inner wings behind the headlamps and took a wire from the wing near the bulkhead to the bulkhead earth.
The fog and reverse lamps I earthed to the tub and ran a cable to the earth point on the bulkhead.
The rear/brake lamps are still standard as are the headlamps.
My indicators are all still standard as they are a nightmare to get sorted and need special relays etc to make the hazards work.
 
miktdish said:
LED's only work when +and - are the right way round... Incansdesant (std) bulbs work either way.

If one side works and the other doesn't swap the wires over (+ to -) on the one that doesn't work.
You need a voltage meter/digital multi meter and a friend. Check that when the brake pedal is pressed that 12V comes to the wire/connector on the lamp.
Check that when the lights are on that 12V is present on the correct wire/connection.
Use the body as the ground when testing.

When all of this is correct do it again using the earth connection/wire.
The front lights send power to the bulb and the black/earth wire is connected to the earth point on the bulkhead (or should be).
When I fitted my front LED bulbs I connectd my earths to the inner wings behind the headlamps and took a wire from the wing near the bulkhead to the bulkhead earth.
The fog and reverse lamps I earthed to the tub and ran a cable to the earth point on the bulkhead.
The rear/brake lamps are still standard as are the headlamps.
My indicators are all still standard as they are a nightmare to get sorted and need special relays etc to make the hazards work.
Click to expand...
I have full Rdx LEDs on mine and the td5 converted side repeaters. Only thing I had to do was for the rdx dash bulb due to earth problems on the dash lights. No problem with the hazard switch. No resistors fitted either.
Finished the rear off with rectangle twin fogs & reverse lights also led. All the lights look standard.
 
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