Recent content by mofsharick

Awesome. I'm glad it was helpful for you. There's always more than one way to skin a cat. I'm using colored LED bulbs, so I couldn't use the break light for the license plate, it would illuminate it red. I've learned plenty from forums over the years, and it really boils down to a clear...

The bolts that mount the entire taillight housing go through the grounding plate, tail light housing, and into the body. I didn't use any other fastener to keep it in place, otherwise. There are still some stubby plastic parts on the housing from where I removed the "plastic rivets" from the...

Here’s the taillights installed and working. My camera doesn’t adequately pick up the difference between just the parking brightness and the brake brightness, but it’s definitely noticeable in person.

FINALLY, after all this time I’ve managed to get the lights installed. I know I didn't get quite as many picture as I'd have liked, but it was hot and humid and I mostly forgot. I hope that this gives a pretty good idea of things though. I had to remove the rear passenger tire and wheel well...

That's interesting. I suspect it has to do with each individual county's requirements. The export lights are for countries that require an amber for turn indicators and red for brakes on the rear of the vehicle. I wonder if your Jeep in Germany was imported from the States, and upon import it...

When I installed mine, I used the black wire for the ground for simplicity/consistency sake. However, it doesn't matter which wire color you choose. The nature of the LED bulb you install, if it doesn't light up at first take the bulb out and spin it 180°. This will give the correct current...

Here’s that write up. Scroll to the “Wiring Power to Mirrors” section for pictures. I ground them on the headlight ground screws. https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/heated-side-mirrors-and-led-turn-signal-repeaters.76908/

Yes it should work just fine. Your LEDs should internally have the diodes and/or resistors for dual brightness. Just for clarification, the factory harness connector is only 2 wire. One will be parking light power, the other will be turn indicator power. It doesn’t have a specific ground wire...

The lights you linked are 3 wire setup for dual brightness. The patch harness discussed earlier in this thread is to turn the factory 2 wire side marker light into a 3 wire dual brightness. If I understand your plan correctly you should wire the low brightness wire of your LED to the parking...

Glad you got it working. I'm surprised a 10 ohm resistor is enough to make a visual difference between parking and indicator. What are the specs of your LED? Assuming 13.2V while running. The LEDs I used were rated at 1W, I found something on Amazon that looks like what's in your picture...

Your resistor and diodes appear to be connected correctly. The silver edge of the diode is the direction current can flow. Your red female spade connectors should connect to the corresponding parking light wire and turn indicator wire from the factory harness. The light blue female space...

The link didn’t seem to work for me. They may work. I was just providing links to where I got my items. If they’re Crown Automotive, should be the same exact thing. I’ve had good experience from Quadratec.

I've created a How-To thread on my build of this project. I've linked over to this thread also, as there is great information on here that was a great resource for me. Thank you to everyone who has helped me to this point on this project. I'm not completely done yet, but I'm hoping for warmer...

Export Taillights (this does require some rewiring to vehicle harness) I'd like start out by saying certain aspects of this build were gained from an existing thread about the export style tail lights. Thank you to all who have contributed...

I am using export lenses with a domestic housing. The screw holes for the lens line up exactly. Export lenses stand out further than the domestic lenses and require longer screws. First picture shows the different depth of the lenses (export left, domestic right). Second is side my side. Third...