i have purchased a pair of white LED's, however when i connect them up, they wont work properly, when both in, they just flash, but not bright, just flash, but when i have one original sidlight bulb in and one LED in the LED light works. but if i go to put the other one one, it just flashes again. CONFUSEDD :/?

patterson11 said:

i have purchased a pair of white LED's, however when i connect them up, they wont work properly, when both in, they just flash, but not bright, just flash, but when i have one original sidlight bulb in and one LED in the LED light works. but if i go to put the other one one, it just flashes again. CONFUSEDD :/?

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They need to have built in resistors/resistor in the circuit to work properly, otherwise they error as the car see it as being blown.

Try these...

https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-pu...stall-load-resistor-led-side-light-bulbs.html

https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punto/258300-led-problem.html

Hid's direct sell White side light bulb with resistors already built in, there called errorless 501 led sidelights, 10 quid mate, I have got them in my number plate lights too !

could you send me the link to the specific led sidelights you got?

I am guessing they are these: http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/error-...e-8-smd-led-sidelights-bulbs-white-p-497.html

I would be interested to know how big the difference is between LED and standard bulbs?

Yeah those are the ones mate !

I have those ones from hids direct and they do not work as sidelight bulbs, I still get an warning light come on! Total waste of £10

Strange because mine are fine!

Ok, I bought a pair of single LED's that caused the same problem.
I contacted the seller, who then sent me 5 LED lights with the proper resistance.
Only one worked, so they sent me a replacement.
I then dropped one that disappeared into the rad!
Finally I got both lights working, then all lights came on and wouldn't turn off.
I started the car and got a temp warning.
I turned off, removed the ignition key and was able to turn off the lights.
I restarted the car, turned on the lights and although both were working I got the running lights error message back.
I've thrown them all away.
That is apart from the one I lost

col.

So you dropped a led bulb into the expansion tank? And these error free bulbs don't work unless you wire in proper resistors.

I can confirm the HID direct led errorless bulbs dont like being used as sidelights but they work ok as number plate lights.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261041307200?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649


use those to get your LED lights to work in your headlights without the error.
also fit in the numberplate holder I've got some and they work fine