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Heck yeah! Been looking all over to see if someone had done this in the US. When you get an opportunity if you would walk us through the parts and the process that would be very helpful.
Before I begin, a word of caution. If you injure yourself or others because you were trying to follow this project, I not responsible for all your mess and mistake. follow this at your own risk.... Tools that I used to cut the lights open cut this plastic glue to separate the light with the side cover and remove 2 screws Make your cut line Start your cut, b patient do nicely remove this screw and this dont lost your rubber washer start pry open the back cover, do slowly and firm, dont force it, some spot need deeper cut peel back the weather strip push down the rubber.
Good to see someone can done this alternatively. I took the easy route by replacing with oversea spec tail lights with few additional wires to achieve the OEM result. Here is what I have done in another thread:
The Outer Light.....same process with inner light, but dont need the PCB board...... cut the plastic glue and remove 2 screws Start make your line start your cut...again nice and easy.... remove this screw and this this and last one... peel back the weather strip and push down the rubber remove the connector from the bracket you can start to pry open...again firm and slowly
1st of all, watch your LED orientation, make sure is matched with these pictures these what I used to make connections and parts join all the positive side of the LEDs together.. solder LED drivers, the positive toward the positive side of LED add cable for power (about 6"-8").....and put all the board a side....we work on the outer light now. Remove this screw and lift the board remove this screw and this remove the tape cut the pink and blue wire one higher then the other Heat shrink together Pull the turn signal back, nicely...at this point you better wear latex glove...you dont want finger print all over you taillight.
remove all blue and yellow tape remove this connector (carefully) and this.. and this.. remove those 2 screws and you can remove the back cover. pull out all those LEDs board... now you have to cut some of copper line...scrape some of the paint.. add some LED driver (pay attention to the polarity) solder this way After done all three, you can put the board back to where is belong and also put back the back cover and screws put back all the connector and cut this wire and this joint the pink withe grey cable and heat shrink, now do same with the back cable and heat shrink... extend all the wire (red, black, grey and blue)
Been busy with work...Let continue.... I drilled the rubber gasket to take out the 4 cable Used JST connector to make it neat I used Ghozt Lightning for the sequential turn, just google "Ghozt Lightning"....need to tested before closing the taillights...from Ghozt lightning module, use ch1 for the inner LED (the closest one to the "L" logo, and ch19 for the outer led. adjust power supply to 12V....you should see the leds sequential...if everything work good, we can start closing.....
This what I used to close the taillights back.... Put back all the screws and make sure the cut off align,, used clamps to help line up after that I used Black silicon to make it water tight.... the rest of the light it's pretty much the same process.....Good luck guys.. if you have any questions just DM me..
Last edited by SoCal_450h; Jan 21, 2020 at 09:39 AM.
Thanks for the info and pictures, you saved me lots of research hours on my project, I bought an extra set of inner tail lights to play around and see what was missing. I also planned on using the Ghozt module to control the sequential leds and brake lights.
When I get home I'll review the pictures and your info.
I have questions for you and I hope you can help me.
DIY - Modified taillights w/ sequential Turn signal
