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04-13-09, 06:18 PM
#7
What year is your SC?
The 97+ LED strip is a POS cause it leaks and allows water/moisture to leak inside and ruin the electrical board.
Mine only had 5 working LEDs when I got it.
If you have a 97+ then find any LED strip that is about 15.5 inches long in a junkyard. I used one from a Mitsubishi Eclipse I paid $3 for.
Basically this is the gist of it:
Use an exacto knife to open up the OEM strip housing once it is out of the spoiler.
Cut the wire or desolder as close as you can to the circuit board.
Break the donor car LED strip housing.
Use a small drill bit on the new board to match the mount screw locations in the stock board. Be careful not to drill into a circuit.
Solder the old wire with stock plug to the next strip after you desolder the old wire from the new strip.
Seal the OEM housing with silicone and allow it to dry overnight so it does not collect dirt/dust/water.
Plug it up and mount.....you should be golden.
The stock strip assembly is about $170 from the dealerships and will leak again so don't go that route. Some people have cleaned the repaired their stock circuit board and installed new LEDs on it. That seems like too much work for me when a smiliar result can be had for less than half the time.
Of course, test your junkyard LED strip before you buy it with a hot battery.
92-96 strips are not notorious for problems like 97+ but this "fix" can be used on pretty much any kind of car.
The 97+ LED strip is a POS cause it leaks and allows water/moisture to leak inside and ruin the electrical board.
Mine only had 5 working LEDs when I got it.
If you have a 97+ then find any LED strip that is about 15.5 inches long in a junkyard. I used one from a Mitsubishi Eclipse I paid $3 for.
Basically this is the gist of it:
Use an exacto knife to open up the OEM strip housing once it is out of the spoiler.
Cut the wire or desolder as close as you can to the circuit board.
Break the donor car LED strip housing.
Use a small drill bit on the new board to match the mount screw locations in the stock board. Be careful not to drill into a circuit.
Solder the old wire with stock plug to the next strip after you desolder the old wire from the new strip.
Seal the OEM housing with silicone and allow it to dry overnight so it does not collect dirt/dust/water.
Plug it up and mount.....you should be golden.
The stock strip assembly is about $170 from the dealerships and will leak again so don't go that route. Some people have cleaned the repaired their stock circuit board and installed new LEDs on it. That seems like too much work for me when a smiliar result can be had for less than half the time.
Of course, test your junkyard LED strip before you buy it with a hot battery.
92-96 strips are not notorious for problems like 97+ but this "fix" can be used on pretty much any kind of car.
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04-13-09, 06:32 PM
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The stock strip assembly is about $170 from the dealerships and will leak again so don't go that route. Some people have cleaned the repaired their stock circuit board and installed new LEDs on it. That seems like too much work for me when a smiliar result can be had for less than half the time.
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