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MEXICOWANDERER
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Apr 20, 2017

COMMENT My Purchase Of LED Tail/Brake 3156 Lights

First of all, my toad has tail light housings that must be treated as being unique to the marque. A Dodge Ram or Chevrolet Silverado would be the color of a different horse as far as uniform light dis...
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CharlesinGA
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Apr 25, 2017
On newer vehicles resistors are a necessity, because the CANBUS system needs to see the circuit and LED's don't have enough resistance for the CANBUS. Install LED tailights on a Sprinter Van for example without resistors, and suddenly the cruise control and the ABS, and several other seemingly unrelated things, don't work, because the CANBUS doesn't see the taillights.

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