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| scottish110 Member Since: 10 Nov 2011 Location: Inverurie Posts: 363   
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Not a good picture, but like i said i bought (on ebay) Wipac clear lenses for all the front and rear lights and then purchased 380 1157 LED bulbs. For the brake lights i did however have to use the original connector as the one for the side indicators wasn't the right connection, but all i did was put the bulb in the original connector and it fit straight in the Wipac Clear Lense.
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31st May 2012 7:47am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20561 
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My only concern with the LED bulbs is the brighness and the directional output. Unless they are different to the reversing light one have it's very directional. Annoying how for some reason a normal light bulb in my reversing light won't work but and LED will :? Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated |
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31st May 2012 9:19am |
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| dgardel Member Since: 30 Nov 2008 Location: Veneto (Heart & Head) Posts: 3586 
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Pay a lot of attention about the LED bulbs, there are same model where, for a strange current return internal of the bulb) that make the Defender crazy (eg, side light + push the brakes = the cockpit goes ON
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31st May 2012 12:45pm |
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| XS Pete Member Since: 13 Jan 2011 Location: Suffolk Posts: 632  
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Spill the beans then Tim. Pete |
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31st May 2012 10:04pm |
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| mobilecentre Member Since: 05 Mar 2012 Location: Evesham Posts: 645
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The most basic fix is to splice a resistor into the indicator circuit each time you change a bulb, so if you replaced your indicators front and rear that would be four resistors. These work by acting as dummy loads and creating a load on the circuit similar to that of the original bulb and dumping this as heat. They need mounting to metal work as they get very hot but this will retain the original relay & functionality.
The next least expensive is to fit a towing buzzer on the electrics at the rear Then we get onto electronic solutions that we have developed but because of the market preferring resistors - such as those Wipac supply with their 95mm lamps in order to keep the headline price low then we do not push our electronic solutions as many feel the lights are already overpriced  |
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1st Jun 2012 7:56am |
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| XS Pete Member Since: 13 Jan 2011 Location: Suffolk Posts: 632
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Oh thanks Tim. So you only have work arounds too. I thought you were going to say that you had a proper plug in replacement relay solution to address this issue.
Pete |
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3rd Jun 2012 7:02am |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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Tbh I tow with both the Defner and Vito both don't have trailer dash lights as such and its never worried me
I check them at hitch up and mid journey if it's a long one Just my thoughts |
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3rd Jun 2012 8:16am |
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| mobilecentre Member Since: 05 Mar 2012 Location: Evesham Posts: 645
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Hi Pete As I said we then move onto electronic solutions which we have a plug & play relay based solution that will give trailer monitoring with LEDs but cost wise is more money than a set of lights as the demand is not there. Tim |
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3rd Jun 2012 9:21am |
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