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Old 6th May 2016, 11:09 AM
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Default D3 fuse for number plate lights

I found a couple of festoon LEDs I had at home and slotted them into the number plate lights just to see what they would look like.

Not too bright, not too dim and not too blue. Perfect I thought.

But then one of them slowly flashed a couple of times then they both went out and wouldn't light again. I put the original halogen bulbs back in and neither of them now work -__- It seems like a fuse had blown or something had been fried.

I looked in the manual for the fuse position for the number plate lights but couldn't find it listed anywhere.

Anybody have any idea?
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Old 6th May 2016, 01:20 PM
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Try turning the ignition off and locking the car for 10 mins and the old ones should work again.
The LEDs 'trip' them out and they stay out until the car is 'reset'.
Theyw ork with one LED and one incandescent or if you get the LEDs with the built-in shunt resistors to make them burn off a few watts as heat so the car sees suffient load to not think they are faulty.
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