deano
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Thought i would share this with you,as i believe a few of you have experienced/experiancing a similar problem.I have had a few LED'S out on the rear tail light and brake light, enough to put a warning light on the dash,as the same LED operates both,this failure was caused by water ingress into the light unit on mine,as the lense is glued/bonded onto the light unit,the boding had started to fail as would be expected over time,Knowing the cost of these units thought it was worth a go at repair,(nothing to loose),i tried to weaken the remaining bonding by running a stanly blade over the seam,but thought ide loose a finger before it was free,so resulted to a very very fine junior hacksaw blade and very carfully cut throught he bonding,this was a little tricky as the lense's are very brittle and the light back is spigoted into the lense,once off there is a clear lense inside which is retained via two self tapping screws,these are reemoved enabling the circuit board to be lifted out,were it was very clear of the damage caused by the water ingress.the next step i cannot take credit for as i passed it over to our instrumentation department at work who tested and confirmed the LED'S had failed and a few resistors/transistors.
They cross referenced these and found a local supplier of the exact type fitted,once soldered into position the light unit can be re assembled and a modern 2pack epoxy bonding used to re fix the lense,
This also cured another issue ive always had as my O/S indicator always flashed quicker than the N/S so i assume a resistor that had failed also serves the indicator part of the unit,
i will post the part numbers of the replacement LED and resistors at a later date and the suppliers contact details,
They cross referenced these and found a local supplier of the exact type fitted,once soldered into position the light unit can be re assembled and a modern 2pack epoxy bonding used to re fix the lense,
This also cured another issue ive always had as my O/S indicator always flashed quicker than the N/S so i assume a resistor that had failed also serves the indicator part of the unit,
i will post the part numbers of the replacement LED and resistors at a later date and the suppliers contact details,