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Old 06-10-2008, 07:10 PM
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just fitted morettes to my 2wd saph and wired them up now all the warning lights are staying on the ones that show all the doors open and light check ones is this a common problem and easy to rectifie worked fine before fiting and checked all wire seem fine even if i unplug the lights they still stay on cheers
Old 07-10-2008, 04:33 AM
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I assume you have fitted the new lights through seperate relays ?
If so that is your problem, as the lights out bit senses current flow and a relay does not use enough current so it thinks the bulb is blown, although now of course the original circuit is only powering the much less power hungry relay and not the bulb itself.
Just a case of putting a resistor in each line so it has some more resistance then it will think the bulb is still there.
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Got morette's on mine and dont have a problem

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bought the lights second hand without the wireing on so just took mine out of the original lights and pluged them in i was wondering if it has somehow blown the lamp warning box some how are these very sensitive cheers
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If wired the same with same wattage bulbs should not know the difference, are you using HID instead of normal or regular bulbs ?
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just a quick update just went out in car and everything is now working fine thanks for all help chers
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