Resolved 2G Fog Light Issues... 95' Talon

[Ashton3D]

This is kind of weird and confusing...

So only the driver side fog is working.

Anyone know the inner workings of the 95' Talon's fog lights?

We've replaced the bulbs with new LED ones since the one was burnt. Still didn't work on passenger side.
Then we tried 3 other LED bulbs as we had 2 packages of 2 and those didn't work. We tried the light with the enclosure from the working side on the non working side and it worked.

We then brought back one of the old halogens into the non working side enclosure and it started working.
Tried another one of the LEDs and it still didn't work.

Oh, and we tried the non working enclosure on the working side and it still didn't work.

This, I feel, rules out everything except the actual enclosure itself somehow ....

Anyone know why this would be occurring? What in the enclosure would be causing LED's to fail but halogens to work?

 

[Ashton3D]

And here's a picture of the non working one somehow working previously before replacing the lights with LED's.... what??

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[Ashton3D]

errr.... reversing the polarity of the light from the other side works. solution found? somehow?

 

[steve]

LEDs are polar. They have a + and - where the halogens aren't, they don't care which way you wire them up as long as current flows through them. I can only guess that you had the wires swapped on the side that didn't work.

 

[chrisman287]

LEDs are polar. They have a + and - where the halogens aren't, they don't care which way you wire them up as long as current flows through them. I can only guess that you had the wires swapped on the side that didn't work.

This is correct. On my Nissan for example the polarity is switched from the factory on the front signals because like you said, the halogens don’t care so when replacing them with LEDs I actually had to hook the positive to the “negative” and vice versa

 

[Ashton3D]

This is correct. On my Nissan for example the polarity is switched from the factory on the front signals because like you said, the halogens don’t care so when replacing them with LEDs I actually had to hook the positive to the “negative” and vice versa

Hah, well, that makes sense. Thank you.

Had to modify the plugs to get them to fit as the positive and negative were different sizes and wouldn't fit in the socket of each other. Worked after that, weird that they wired it wrong or whatever...