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Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:36 pm
by Gareth
I've got two blown bulbs.
Do you need to change the whole unit (I had a friend woh had to but that was due to half of them not working) or can you buy replacement bulbs?

TIA
G

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:49 pm
by neil
AFAIK its the whole unit. Admittedly you could dismantle the unit and get your soldering iron out

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:54 pm
by simon
G yours are USA spec too so that will make a difference if you need to buy a new unit.

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:09 pm
by Gareth
simon wrote:G yours are USA spec too so that will make a difference if you need to buy a new unit.
Huh?

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:18 pm
by simon
On Euro spec cars the outer ring lights up with the sidelights and they only have the half-lit inner LEDs when the fogs are on. The inners are never fully lit.
Federal cars have a fully lit inner LED with the sidelights, dunno where the fog is on them, would guess the inner LEDs just get brighter in the same way the outers get brighter when braking.

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:24 pm
by campbell
Gareth you bought a lemon.

Simon you are an anorak.

That is all. For now...

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:26 am
by automek
campbell wrote:Gareth you bought a lemon.

Simon you are an anorak.

That is all. For now...

Too funny :D

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:33 am
by simon
campbell wrote:Simon you are an anorak.
I just have the ability to use the search feature on SELOC :thumbsup

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:39 am
by robin
Either way I think you need to replace the unit - I changed one unit on my 240PP before it was sold and at the time I asked Craig and there no option to replace individual elements. The units are sealed on manufacture (some sort of ultrasonic welding I think) so whilst you can hack saw them open, you probably cannot reseal them very well. I looked at some a long time ago for interest and it turned out that it was the driver chip that was broken not the individual LEDs.

If it were me, I would do nothing until either it fails an MOT or you are just about to sell it, then change at the very last minute. These things aren't cheap.

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:31 am
by Gareth
I've got a months warranty left...hopefully wil lbe covered

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:38 am
by campbell
Gareth wrote:I've got a months warranty left...hopefully wil lbe covered
Can you get round it to look for anything else?

Bring it along to KH on Friday and maybe Craig will have a tech handy?!?!

Come to think of it, are you giving it a shakedown on-track, that would be very worthwhile...

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:14 pm
by Edin430
Ignore the full/half moon to work out if it's US/UK.

Lights out: UK lights have orange insides on the outers and US lights have clear insides - simplez.

Re: Exige rear LED's

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:15 pm
by Sparky
Gareth wrote:I've got a months warranty left...hopefully wil lbe covered
Hi mate, I had the same problem after I bought the Exige, got the unit replaced under warranty at MMC. 8)