petsur

Have a set of Eagle Eye LED tail lights in my '13 Grand Sport for a couple of years and love them.

Was loading on the trailer heading to the track tomorrow and it had a rapid flash on the left turn signal. We checked all lights and signals and everything is working. Anyone seen this before?

Tropicana

Yep. One of your resistor values has changed due to corrosion, loose connection or a combination thereof. Redo the wiring connections and the problem should be resolved.

petsur

Cool, I'll try that tomorrow. Thank you.

Tropicana

Even if you spot corrosion, that might not solve the problem but it usually does. I've done wiring where I was certain the connections were solid but turned out the splices, even though shrink-tubed, were not reliable. If it worked before but not now, my first guess is connections. Nowadays, I use T-taps successfully. Good luck.

Slider-01

I had the very same thing.
Ended up having to replace the load resister of one of the left rear tail lights.
Since doing that, all is well and back to normal.

direct007

If you have the sequential harness, remove it. I had nothing but problems with them. After my 2nd set started causing issues. I just removed them and the LED tail lights worked fine.

petsur

How did you determine it was the load resister? Where did you get the replacement?

Would you recommend dielectric grease on the plugs?

vettegator005

Slider-01

It was a bit of a process. I took one of the load resistors from one of the right side lights and swapped it with the left side one at a time until I figured which of the left side it was.

I bought the load resistor from JW Motoring.
I know he was running short on them so don't know if he still has any or not m
Yes, I used dielectric Grease and did all the connections.

petsur

Did the connections with no luck. When I pulled the lenses, one of the resisters had become unstuck and was flopping around in there and I suspect that is my problem.

I also bought these lights from JW Motoring a couple years back so I emailed about buying a new resister but multiple emails to JW Motoring go unanswered.

ncvette_1FUNRIDE

I think JWMotoring is out of business. You might have to try elsewhere or just Google 'wiring load resistor' and maybe you can find something that will work.

1bdvet

I alo had the same problem with this company, never response from them.

petsur

Ok thanks for the reply. Funny but their website is still open and will take money??

ncvette_1FUNRIDE

Maybe he is still in business - but he is no longer a vendor here and hasn't been on the forum in several months.

I had lots of dealings with Jhonathan and never had a problem, but recently there have been a few forum members who had difficulty getting in touch with him and getting what they ordered.

I even sent him a PM and never heard back from him. I just assumed that he was out of business.

Knob Jockey

Turn Signal Load Resistors don't usually fail, however they do get very hot when the brakes are on for a long time.

I don't have first hand experience with the Eagle Eyes LED's, but the pics always show what looks like some kind of encased resistor pack.

You can get load resistors from V-LED's that come with finned aluminum heat sinks and mounting plates that leave an air-gap under the resistor.

Typically 50 watt resistors (6 ohm) are heavy duty enough to dissipate the heat. The OEM circuit with a lamp draws about 35 watts.

I mounted mine in pairs to a piece of sheet phenolic and mounted them on studs inside the rear bumper so I could easily get to them if I needed to.






This pic shows the air-gap provided by the mounting plate.

petsur

Hey thanks for the tip! I see Corvette Mods sells resisters that look very similar.

petsur

JW Motoring never responded but Corvette Mods sells the resistors pictured in **** Jockey's post. I bought 4 of them. Just installed the one, FIXED !!

Thanks Corvette Mods !