Hi, I recently purchased a pair of LED Stop/Tail bulbs from AutoBulbsDirect , they are these ones, I installed them easily and they worked perfectley....till i drove of. On the dash i had the traction control light and heater plug lights on indicating no brakes/tail lights. So back in with the standard bulbs until I sourced the correct resistors.
The first one is for the tails and the second is for the break lights , someone else did the math on these. These 2 resistors will act the same as the bulb it's replacing and DISAPATE THE HEAT SAFELY, most importantly. These resistors must be put in parallel with the bulbs to fool the system into thinking they are ok, the draw back is when the leds eventually do go you won't know unless you look. I wanted to install this in a way that was easy to return to original and without cutting looms.
So here's the install,
|| Remove tail lights, disconnect loom, remove bulb holder tray ( spend 1 hour recovering lost bolt AND socket )
|| scratch of the galv where 3 tail wires need to be soldered and solder on 3 wires, one for tail + , one for break + and a common -
The purple was the +Stop , the red was +Tail and black ( on the left ) was earth - , Hot glue the cable into place, drill a small hole and thread the cable through gluing hole as well . Install LED bulb.
|| Mounting the resistor was tricky, after several atempts the position shown below was best.
routing the wires and affixing with more hot glue.
|| Reinstall bulb holder tray, terminating wires on both ends with crimps, different genders to avoid connecting wrong, from the resistor join a wire from each with the ground/negative . The large resistor lead connects to the purple wire and the small resistor lead connects to the red lead.
|| Tidy the whole lot up, secure the wires
Reinstall Tail light assembly, switch on lights to test. And It works
and no errors 
The first one is for the tails and the second is for the break lights , someone else did the math on these. These 2 resistors will act the same as the bulb it's replacing and DISAPATE THE HEAT SAFELY, most importantly. These resistors must be put in parallel with the bulbs to fool the system into thinking they are ok, the draw back is when the leds eventually do go you won't know unless you look. I wanted to install this in a way that was easy to return to original and without cutting looms.
So here's the install,
|| Remove tail lights, disconnect loom, remove bulb holder tray ( spend 1 hour recovering lost bolt AND socket )
|| scratch of the galv where 3 tail wires need to be soldered and solder on 3 wires, one for tail + , one for break + and a common -
The purple was the +Stop , the red was +Tail and black ( on the left ) was earth - , Hot glue the cable into place, drill a small hole and thread the cable through gluing hole as well . Install LED bulb.
|| Mounting the resistor was tricky, after several atempts the position shown below was best.
routing the wires and affixing with more hot glue.
|| Reinstall bulb holder tray, terminating wires on both ends with crimps, different genders to avoid connecting wrong, from the resistor join a wire from each with the ground/negative . The large resistor lead connects to the purple wire and the small resistor lead connects to the red lead.
|| Tidy the whole lot up, secure the wires
Reinstall Tail light assembly, switch on lights to test. And It works
and no errors
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