Scion xB Lighting & ElectricalThere's options for Scion xB Lighting and Electrical from the factory, but honestly where's the fun in that. In this Scion xB Lighting and Electrical forum you can share ideas with eachother on what works well and looks good for Scion xB lighting.
Alligator clip goes to the Red/Y and probe the Blue/Y (may have to use a paper clip to connect better). Do this with the relay still connected and then disconnect the relay and test again. If the relay is good you should get the light that will dim after few sec and with disconnected relay there should be no light at all.
nope, 1156 has a single filament at the bottom, 7440 is a wedge bulb, sort if like a big 194, like the license plate lights..
1156 will not fit...
well i got an RS4 if u cant tell by my profile pic. So i have the TYC Tails. i donno if the stock and TYC tails are the same bulbs but i mailed them these pix and they said that the bulb was a 1156 not 7440
awww, wasn't aware the TYC's were different. Yeah 1156's will work, I have LED 1156's based bulbs in my supras for the license plate lights, very nice..
Alligator clip goes to the Red/Y and probe the Blue/Y (may have to use a paper clip to connect better). Do this with the relay still connected and then disconnect the relay and test again. If the relay is good you should get the light that will dim after few sec and with disconnected relay there should be no light at all.
OK - I may not have done it right then.
I grounded a wire and connected to the B/Y wire and got light - relay connected.
Same set up but connected to the R/Y wire and got nothing - with door open and closed.
Are you saying I need to connect it to both the blue and red wires to test? When I do that I get full power but no dimming with the relay connected.
connect it to both the blue and red wires to test? When I do that I get full power but no dimming with the relay connected.
Now disconnect the relay and see what happens. There should be no more light. If there is- that means wire from the dimmer somehow melted and touching the ground.
Now disconnect the relay and see what happens. There should be no more light. If there is- that means wire from the dimmer somehow melted and touching the ground.
ok, with the relay disconnected i get nothing on a standard bulb....
JACKPOT...Upon further inspection I decided to pull the relay board out, circuit FRIED...I'll post pics tomorrow.
Well, since that happened I have noticed the locks sounding weak, but yeah I am getting a new one. Well, new to me, I found a used one with about 40k on it for 35 bucks...a whole lot better than the $428 the dealer quoted me.
see, thats what irks me about it, I didn't change anything other than the bulb...just installed the smd led panel from oznium, the wires melted and cause the board to fry.
I have since purchase the festoon type bulbs from superbrightleds.com so I have no wires to worry about.
on another note - is ssuperstore.com still in business? or are they just really slow to respond?
The stock bulb in the dome light draws 0.5 Amp. How much more can the relay handle safely nobody knows. I think the LEDs overheated and melted the base and something just shorted. The fuse that blew is 15 amps- no way the relay can handle even half that.
I am pretty sure that the relay blew before the fuse went, when I lost my radio and replaced that fuse I fipped the switchon the dome light which threw sparks, that panel has a wire lead that runs to the festoon replacement, I am pretty sure that the switch caught the wire and pinched it against the metal runner inside the dome light - leading to the short in the wire leads and the overload on the relay.
Moral of the story is that I won't be using anything with wire leads in the dome lights.
connection was finaly the right one but when i went to install it, the head of the LED was JUST BARLEY TOO WIDE... when i say jus barley i mean like "Paper Thin" too wide. i tried everything, but take the lens off the tail.
i was thinking that too but i said screw it... im looking at these now... think these will fit? 18 High Power Tower LED 1156 Style Super Bright LEDs - Error Page
i jus donno the difference when it says CW and WW...
they would actually be brighter if they were facing out, but they mount almost parallel to the ground, so you can imagine if they faced directly out...
