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Sql



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Poland 2007 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Buckingham Blue
2010/12 Taillights Issues

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So my mechanic tried to install 2012 LED taillights into my 2007 Vogue and after a brief moment of happiness when it turned out that a plug and play method gave no fast blinking turn indicator I noticed that my fog lights are on constantly. I also get disco effect when ignition is on.

Is there an easy fix for these issues or do I need to get the expensive wiring kit from supertweaks at GBP 225?

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I have read that I can cut the fog wire and connect the wire from the car to a resistor and the other side to ground but then I have no fog lights and it may cause issues with MOT. Also disco lights when ignition is on will remain.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks! 12 4.4 TDV8 Vogue
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07 3.6 TDV8 Vogue
Buckingham Blue / Sand / Piano
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this is from the wiki and it looks like cliff used the same boxes as you 'might' have to buy.....i'm sure there are other magic boxes available...

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic9647.html ... - .- -.




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Sql



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Yup, have seen that topic Stan, thanks.

I guess I will have to buy that if there is no other way around this. 12 4.4 TDV8 Vogue
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07 3.6 TDV8 Vogue
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i bought these and received them week ago, gonna try them as soon as i receive my inserts .

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161977916334
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Can i give you a free top tip... You have a tow bar yes? Cut the Yellow/Black wire to each rear light (fog light) connect this to the Blue wire coming from your trailer electrics (rear fog light feed)
This will stop your rear fog light issues by feeding the rear fog lights a clean on/off feed from the towing ECU sir...

Then simply have the CCF files altered to turn off the hot & cold monitoring on the rear lights Thumbs Up

NO need to use nasty boxes then sir Whistle
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Headlights wiring tip please? just to complete the day Very Happy Very Happy
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Sql



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Craig, that's what I was hoping to hear! Thanks a lot sir!

How do I alter the hot and cold monitoring, do I need IID tool? Can diagnostic software used by independent LR services do that? 12 4.4 TDV8 Vogue
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07 3.6 TDV8 Vogue
Buckingham Blue / Sand / Piano
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Yes & yes??? IID will, some indy diagnostic kit will, some wont sir... Thumbs Up
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Tried the boxes, works perfect!
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mine do the disco for a few seconds upon start up and the half lit fog....but neither of these bothered me enough to do anything about it and I'm really OCD about my cars/toys 2014 FF Autobiography 5.0 SC
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So I finally got round to fitting the taillights.

New questions.

@Cam-Tech-Craig, you explained that I needed to connect the fog light wires to blue wire from tow bar electrics - it turned out there were two blue wires in there, if I remember right one was blue with red strip and the other one was blue with some other color. Which one should be our connection winner? Didn't want to try and connect it to an incorrect blue one so ended up with fog light wires just cut and with a nice "Check foglight bulb" greeting on the dash Smile

Please let me know your thoughts if possible!

Side note - wow these LED taillights are bright! I wonder if they should be that bright or they get too much power now?? 12 4.4 TDV8 Vogue
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Check first with a circuit tester sir Thumbs Up
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Thanks Craig. I hope my mechanic will know what to look for with the circuit tester.

One more thing - should these taillights be so bright? Especially turn signals, damn they are blinding!

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Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated Mr. Green  12 4.4 TDV8 Vogue
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Dammm beautiful rear lights, did you 've sold the old lights? I use Google translate, Sorry for my bad English...

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Sql wrote:
Craig, that's what I was hoping to hear! Thanks a lot sir!

How do I alter the hot and cold monitoring, do I need IID tool? Can diagnostic software used by independent LR services do that?


You can turn off the bulb monitoring with NavCoder, if you can't afford IID Tool.....

http://www.navcoder.com/

And you will need a lead like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/For-BMW-USB-OBD-...SwFqJWnhu0 Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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