Faffing today to repair some of the previous owners' attempts at chaving up my car.
Problem - The foot well lights and boot light not working.
No power to either circuits, fuses OK, needed to reset error codes to get power back to circuits.
Now got power for about 2 seconds.
After repairing damage to wires and bulb holders, installed suitable LED modules.
All flashed for about 2 seconds before shut off.
After experimentation I found a 100-Ohm 3W resistor across the LED modules was adequate to "fool" the CANbus in to no error state. 120-Ohm did not.
100ohm resistor uses about an extra 1.5W of power and a 3W resistor gets warm after a while but not hot.
This resistor is small enough to solder across the bulb holder terminals. As per photo.
Brown wire was positive on both circuits.
Now all lights working perfectly and bright.
A neat and permanent solution to solve this issue.
I suspect this solution will work for other bulbs on the car.
Problem - The foot well lights and boot light not working.
No power to either circuits, fuses OK, needed to reset error codes to get power back to circuits.
Now got power for about 2 seconds.
After repairing damage to wires and bulb holders, installed suitable LED modules.
All flashed for about 2 seconds before shut off.
After experimentation I found a 100-Ohm 3W resistor across the LED modules was adequate to "fool" the CANbus in to no error state. 120-Ohm did not.
100ohm resistor uses about an extra 1.5W of power and a 3W resistor gets warm after a while but not hot.
This resistor is small enough to solder across the bulb holder terminals. As per photo.
Brown wire was positive on both circuits.
Now all lights working perfectly and bright.
A neat and permanent solution to solve this issue.
I suspect this solution will work for other bulbs on the car.
