Quote Originally Posted by Drunktank View Post
Got a chance to disassemble one side of lights today. There's no individual wiring for LED's, they're all on 7 different circuit boards, so there's no reusing the factory LED's. The boards also curve with the lights, so you can't use strips, as they won't bend sideways.

Soooo, it looks like we're going to be making board replacements for these. I have a bit of experience making custom Arduino's and such in Kicad, but I'll need to re-familiarize myself with it. If anyone is ever interested learning about PCB's, Sean Hymel has a great Kicad tutorial series on Youtube.

I can get down to 3 boards per side if I just do the brake lights, and ignore the running lights. I don't really see any reason to mess with the running lights for this. The plan is to start by sticking the boards in a flatbed scanner so I can use the board shape to make the new ones. I've already snipped off the components of the board so it will sit nice and flat on the scanner.





I was thinking about that the other day, and I don't have any re-coding tools, and don't really care to get one. I was thinking I'll interface with the harness for the sidemarker turn signals and the 3rd brake light to get individual signals for each.

I've never understood why just because you CAN have your brake light double as a turn signal in the States, why you WOULD? Especially since you separate them by default in other countries. Why make it more complicated? Who knows.
You can use factory LEDs if your willing to cut the traces on the PCB. Designing a custom PCB would be sweet though. Been trying to convince an EE friend to do it for me.20200827_140152.jpeg

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