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Help Aftermarket Tail Lights installed last night and now nothing works!

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Old 11-21-09, 09:18 AM
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Unhappy Help Aftermarket Tail Lights installed last night and now nothing works!

Ok I searched the forum and couldn't find an answer, I bought the aftermarket tail lights for a 00 GS400 the red led one with the white clear strip on the bottom. Everything was going good last night it was installed correctly but then all of a sudden both tail lights stopped running with the power on, however brakes still work, turn signal still works, and reverse still works. I replaced the tail light fuse and that only brought back the inner tail lights but the outer ones are still out.

What is going on, is it a relay???
Old 11-21-09, 12:06 PM
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i got some after market ebay ones and i had the tail light and the brake light reversed in the wrong connector on the tail lamp. so i switched them and it started working again.
Old 11-21-09, 05:20 PM
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The manufacturer of the aftermarket LED tails somehow crossed the two brake light connectors...just switch them around...hopefully this will fix it.
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have you replaced it the original to see if it's the lights and not the wire harness?
Old 11-23-09, 01:42 PM
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Ok good news everyone the problem is fixed, what happened was there was a 20amp fuse in place of a 10amp fuse in the tail light slot which blew out the relay harness for the tail lights, so a buddy of mine soddered it and we placed the relay unit back in the car and tail lights are working perfect, look great. Thanks for the help all.
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