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Dash Lights Flicker - R33

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Had no issues with my stock dash lights, other than the dull yellow colour, so I decided to change them to bright white LED's.
I purchased these LED's from eBay.
I installed them, and for about a week they worked fine with no issues and I am very happy with the colour, but then 2 of the 5 lights started to flicker.
Recently a 3rd light is starting to flicker as well. Progressively this has gotten worse.
When I say 'flicker' I don't think they turn off completely, but they sporadically dull and then light up again.
This only happens when the car is running. They work fine if the car is off.

Not sure if I plugged the looms back in poorly or I knocked a wire loose, or if these eBay LED's are just crappy quality.

Just wondering if anyone could help me out on discovering the issue. Thanks guys!

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Got a Pulsar Grand Master

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Sounds like the connection in the socket is not strong. Might need to pull them out and tweak the legs so they connect better.

One of mine sometimes takes a while to kick in but I CBF pulling the cluster out again... one day.

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Had no issues with my stock dash lights, other than the dull yellow colour, so I decided to change them to bright white LED's.

I purchased these LED's from eBay.

I installed them, and for about a week they worked fine with no issues and I am very happy with the colour, but then 2 of the 5 lights started to flicker.

Recently a 3rd light is starting to flicker as well. Progressively this has gotten worse.

When I say 'flicker' I don't think they turn off completely, but they sporadically dull and then light up again.

This only happens when the car is running. They work fine if the car is off.

Not sure if I plugged the looms back in poorly or I knocked a wire loose, or if these eBay LED's are just crappy quality.

Just wondering if anyone could help me out on discovering the issue. Thanks guys!

Cheap LEDs causes this to happen my advice is to pull them all out and buy some decent LEDs that are rated to 14-16V i recommend ZPE (Zero Point Electronics) on eBay also an SAU member i believe.

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