i recently put LED lights in my gauge cluster map light and dome light and now when i open my door even when the dome light is set to turn on when the door opens it wont. The only time it works is when my keys are in the ignition and its turned to acc! Any idea on why this is, id really like my dome light to come on when my keys arent in the ignition and its pitch black!
Are the leds the same number as the stock lights? Check the connections of the leds to make sure they are touching? Thats all the useless thoughts I have at the moment.
I haven't heard of them not coming on at all, but I know they are very low light until you fire it up. I think there's some sort of resistor or something to correct the situation. Try searching around in the national board interior/electronics section.
I have an LED in one of my map light spots and it will come on, but very very dim until I turn on the other "regular" light, then the LED brightens up. When I researched it I found it's not uncommon and some folks had come up with a somewhat complicated solution... well, it was more complicated than I was willing to deal with at the time.
EDIT: I'm not sure if you're getting no power to the light sockets, or if there's so little light it seems like they aren't working. But the resistor they talk about in that thread was what I was referring to a few posts up.
awesome thanks doug i found another thread on the main forum but it had no solutions, im way to lazy to buy a soldering iron and resistor and then find room fo it in the little space there is up in the roof so ill just deal with it for now i guess
As Doug pointed out, it is definitely the resistor. Same reason why you see people with cracked out turn signals on the road when they replace their normal bulbs with LED.
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