DEPO LED Tail Lights Problem

[BruceH]

Glad they are working. Now, if you can figure out how to make the outside LED's light up as brake lights, let me know. I haven't had a chance to play with them yet.

[Perfectlap]

Instructions on doing the blinker hack
Anti-Bling Porsche Boxster DIY's: Boxster, Depot brand tail lights, make turn signal LED

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Instructions on doing the blinker hack
Anti-Bling Porsche Boxster DIY's: Boxster, Depot brand tail lights, make turn signal LED

I am fine with the blinker the way it is. I would rather have the outboard LED's come on with the brakes.

[Perfectlap]

my smoked set just arrived. THe build quality on these is really good. Definitely looks OEM. I'm impressed for the $150 price.

Question, the orange bulbs are old school Edison bulbs. Can these be swapped for orange LEDs?

[Meir]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

my smoked set just arrived. THe build quality on these is really good. Definitely looks OEM. I'm impressed for the $150 price.

Question, the orange bulbs are old school Edison bulbs. Can these be swapped for orange LEDs?

no.
the polarity on the boxster tail light is reversed.

[particlewave]

Not plug and play, but it's not even slightly difficult to switch the polarity. I'm going to make my own

[dragonflyoh]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Where did you get the LED center brake light?

my Depos just arrived. Can't have mismatching lights!!

I never saw an answer for the LED center light. How did you do that?

[dragonflyoh]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Instructions on doing the blinker hack
Anti-Bling Porsche Boxster DIY's: Boxster, Depot brand tail lights, make turn signal LED

I looked at the anti-bling reference and the instructions call for resistors but I could not find a size anywhere. I cannot figure out how to respond to the anti-bling site. Any idea on what size resistor to use?

[scottvd]

Where did you get the LED center brake light?

my Depos just arrived. Can't have mismatching lights!!

Originally Posted by dragonflyoh

I never saw an answer for the LED center light. How did you do that?

Bumping this - I just purchased a LED third brake light from eBay seller sportscarextras, here's a link to his inventory of 986 brake lights. The original item was listed as: "PORSCHE 986 BOXSTER /S CLEAR/SILVER LED 3RD BRAKE LIGHT"

[BruceH]

Have you installed it yet and are you happy with it?

[professorman]

I just got these lights, and I am having the same issue as everyone, where the outer lights do not come on with brake. The person who solved it with the 50Watt resistor did not explain what they did to make it work.

[particlewave]

The fog lights are not supposed to come on with the brake lights. Use them as designed and the problem goes away.

[Tweetdriver63]

I have the smoked ones on my 2001 and love the looks. I’ve had them about a year. I also have the LED projector headlights and a smoke LED third brake light.

Here’s my problem. My wife was driving behind me the other night and she told me one of my brake lights has stopped working. That’s the inside (toward the license plate) LED bank, of the passenger side (right) assembly. I don’t really know where to begin troubleshooting.

[BIGBLUE1212]

I know this thread died long ago, but for anyone who is having trouble with the DEPO LED tail lights and the outer brake lights not working, there is an easy fix.

1. Cut off the bulb adapter for the outer brake lights.
2. Cut the wire for the inner brake lights and leave about 2 inches from the bulb adapter.
3. Cut a 7" long piece of wire to connect the outer brake lights to the inner brake lights.
4. Attach the extension wire to the outer brake lights wire.
5. connect the inner brake lights, the extension wire and the bulb adapter wires together.
6. DONE! The inner bulb socket now powers both the inner and outer.

Works 100% on my car.

Hope this helps!