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Airzone

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Airzone

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Hi Guys,

My wing's brake lights seem to have died. I ripped them out to test various things, and the car's putting 12v up to the lights fine...

Anyway, I'm in the market for a replacement. It's a stock R33 GTS-T type-m wing. Anyone know who's the best person to see about these things? Or perhaps someone has a spare one lying around collecting dust?

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I remember reading about this a longtime ago.

Apparently the lights are all LED's wired in series so they can take the 12v.

The bad thing is if one stuffs up the whole lot won't light up (cause they are wired in series).

Pull the light out of the spoiler and check each LED, when you find which one is stoofed just replace it.

The hard part will be finding a replacement LED the same brightness as the others. Might be easier to replace them all so they all look the same.

J

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Revhead Grand Master

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I assume you mean the series 1 spoiler, the curved one that sort of rounds off the back end?

Yes it is a pain to get the lights out of it, the best way is a ratchet with a screwdriver bit, works a treat. Also, I believe the LEDs aren't strictly in series - they are grouped into lots of 5-10 LEDs, and all of the groups are wired in parallel, so that if you blow an LED, only the group that it's in is affected, not the whole array.

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thats right with what Revhead said, they are in groups, i had a few out on mine when i first got it, it is an aftermarket GTR wing but the principal is the same, it had actually got water inside the casing of the light and corroded part of the circuit board away, re-soldered it back together and put some silicone around it all and it worked a treat, it was just a hassle to take out as the whole wing had to come off.

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