When you get Led head lamps and tail lamps do you need a wiring mod to instal or does it just hook up to the factory connectors? Also does anyone know where and what brand you can get gauge cluster lights?

 

well i bought a pair of spec d headlights that have led's in them. if your lights are similar to mine your going to have to splice the led wires into the driving lights. there really isn't much wire to work with so make sure you do a good job on it. take your time. if i were you i'd have them installed by professionals. thats my opinion. i did them myself and spliced them into my running/directionals. the first set were junk so i was shipped another and now i have very little wire left. hopefully nothing goes wrong.

 

I bought led tail lights for my truck and they plugged right in no problems and they flash normal like some you buy and the they will flash fast so you would have to change your blinker relay i believe.

 

If the LED's for the signal flash too quickly the best bet is a small resistor that pretty much any auto parts store (I got mine at O'Reilly) sells for about $9 each. They simple have a small wire coming out of each end that you splice into the positive wire. I did this when I converted the signal lights on my Saturn to LEDs. Worked great. I tried doing the flasher upgrade, didn't work, wasted $14 on a flasher that did no good and since I had already installed it, they wouldn't let me return it. How rude, LOL

 

Where did you splice the resistor? Right on the + cable off the battery

 

you need either a wiring diagram or a test light... I did this on the front turn signal/marker light on my old Saturn. Since it was a dual filament bulb I had one ground wire, and two positives that come out of the socket for the bulb... One for the marker, and one for the signal... I spliced it into the positive wire for the signal. Honestly, the hardest part was getting to the wires. Once I figured that out it took less than 5 minutes per side to splice in the resistors.

 

instead of just doing a splice or a tap, use blade connectors. Do two wires into one on the one side and then just terminate the wire going to the led's with the appropriate blade on the other. You won't have to cut back any further if you have to replace the harness and you'll still always have continuity for your running lights.

 

I've heard a lot of the LEDs flashing fast on the conversions where you just replace the bulbs and not the entire assembly. I have LEDs in my headache rack and the flash is a little off from the conventional lights due to the lower amperage needed to emit light (they light up slightly quicker than the taillights and stay lit slightly longer). Since they are a trailer light they do actually have the resistors in them to keep the setup from flashing fast and to help protect the vehicle's trailer wiring seeing how most are on their own circuit in the truck today and on newer 4 wire tails which can be very sensitive.