naluloa

While out driving, my friend pointed out that my left inner brake light wasn't turning on when I pressed on my brakes. They are DEPO brand aftermarket tail lights, and I was wondering if anyone experienced or had heard of someone who had these go out. Got the feeling I'd have to buy another set just to replace one faulty enclosure. I plan on removing the trunk liner tomorrow to see if some wires disconnected. If everything is intact, would I be able to get the wafer, or the LEDs on the wafer repaired/replaced? Only other option would be to buy Spec D inner tail lights, because they at least will match the LED outer lights and DEPO only seems to sell the whole shabang .

firelizard

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Well they're certainly not made to be serviceable, but if you can open it up without breaking it, and troubleshoot the board, and replace whatever the faulty component is, sure. Just a matter of if that is within your ability and worth the effort.

naluloa

Huh, guess I should fire up the YouTube tutorials and buy a soldering gun haha. But noted, because I read on another thread that if one light is bad, the whole assembly is kaput. I plan to have a check-up day where I inspect the smaller stuff like that, in addition to the exhaust hangers. Thank you

naluloa

So the issue was a disconnected wire that went from the aftermarket tail lights to the oem harness. Whoever installed the lights didn’t do a great job lol. I tried to take out the terminal to solder the wire to it and put it back in but the inside of the OEM harness is mangled what the… anyway, I shoved the wire in and put masking tape over it .

Miles and miles of bumpy roads later the lights still come on. Lesson learned: before going and re-soldering an array of LED lights, check your connections, doy!