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On my 1997 CIVIC EX it has a green, red/black and black wire coming out of the harness on the tail light. I just got some new LED tail lights and I cant figure out where the wires go in the harness. The LED wire colors are ORANGE and BLACK. I have tried to splice into the wires and tried every variation to get the LED's to work..... What am I doing wrong??? Any help would be super. Thanks !!

Chad

 
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So there are three wires from the OEM tails, right? Which are, I'm guessing, Brakes, Signals, and Ground. Simple reasoning would dictate you'd need three wires going into your LED tails. Unless, of course, there's an external processor to supply varying voltages for the different luminosities, i.e. brakes and signal on the same arrays.

So in essence, I have no idea. You'll have to give up some more information, at least for me. Someone else may have had the same problem. If I were you, I'd contact the seller or manufacturer.

 
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Well i bought them off of Ebay.... probably my first mistake. But coming out the new LED tail lights is a orange and black wire. I just cant figure out where to splice them into. Its driving me nutz.

 
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pics? i do alot of wiring, so i may be able to help

 
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why are you posting the same question so many times? especially in the wrong forums.

https://www.civicforums.com/forums/4...tall-help.html

https://www.civicforums.com/forums/4...ight-help.html

 
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I know this is odd coming from me, but cut him some slack. Let's just assume he didn't know what was going on and get some Mod on this.

 
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I will upload pictures in 5 min. please take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong.... and ying, sorry guy, i am new to this....

 
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Here is what I have.... The last photo is of just the harness thats on my civic. Do i need to splice into one of them? The one with just the 2 wires coming out of the light is the blinker and the other one with the 3 wires is the brake light. ANY help is appreciated. Take a look!

Chad

 
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First of all, I wouldn't put those within 15 yards of my car, they look horrible and don't look like they're made very well at all. You get what you pay for.

It looks like this is missing some parts, perhaps. You shouldn't have to do any custom wiring on something you bought, IMO. It looks like it's a hybrid of incandescent bulbs and an LED array. Honestly, unless you've got some homemade 12V testing probes and a soldering iron, I'd wire up the LED arrays leads into the brake light, cause I'm assuming that's what you'd want them to come on with. The orange wire is going to be your positive lead, and the black is going to be negative. That's the universal convention, the black wire is negative. I don't know of any other way you could check the polarity short of disassembly, but I'd go ahead and assume. It's safe enough. I'd wire the orange lead into the positive (looks like the red lead, if I'm looking at this right) and ground the black lead, either by splicing it into the other black lead, or grounding it on the chassis.

Of course, all this is assuming that connector has 3 pins inside it and it's wired up so it won't burst into flames. If none of this helps, may God have mercy on your install, for eBay hath none.

 
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orange and black wire are the + and - of the led tail...

orange is +
black is -


what you want to do is to tap the orange to ur oem parking light, which is green i believe (if not, then its red)

then tap ur black wire from the led tail, to ur black oem wire...

then you have a bulb in the middle (of the led ring), which is the brake light... tap it in the other wire (green) and then tap the black wire of the middle bulb to the black wire of ur oem black wire

 
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sounds to me like those two wires are just power and ground for the "halo" led parking light. looks like everything else uses bulbs. what a terrible design. why dont you hook them to a battery and see what comes on, i bet its just the circle of leds. now if they are bright enough, you could buy a trailer module from walmart and use them as brake/turn signal too if you want. but it looks like they were designed for a halo park light only.

 
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thanks for the help guys, i will try and see if i can get them to work now!

 
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hope it fixed your issue