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Originally Posted by lil bubba
Sorry but I aint the smartest cacahoe in the bucket and I never sleep at a holiday inn . Are you talking about a toyota truck problem or a led trailer light problem , cause I never had a problem with my trailer lights led and I drive a chevy. I'm not being critical of your post I'm just try'n to figure out what you talk'n bout in case this condition arises. I'm thinking the module you talking about is on the truck ?
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no im not talking about trailers at all and this is not needed for people who have factory wired trailer light plugs already on their trucks.
im talking about people who added trailer light converters to their trucks themselves and had to buy those expensive direct plug in contraptions you buy to plug into your trucks tail lights to give you a working trailer light plug.
in the old days you had no issue because all vehicles used the flashers as brake lights just like trailers do so you could just hook your trailer plugin directly to your tail lights and they worked but on newer vehicles they went to separate flasher lights that were no longer also used as brake lights so the need arose for these "special" trailer light converters to be used. these converters can get pricey depending on the type of vehicle you have. my chevy was like $25 but for a Toyota its $40 yet the parts inside are the same, they just charge a whole lot more simply because its a Toyota.
anyways these converters are very cheaply made with low quality and prone to failing on you and when they do, that is when you need this fix . it will be a way to permanently replace it with something that never fails and never wears out.
some might wonder why have transistors if they aren't needed? well the answer is to sell you more converters because anytime there is the slightest issue with the trailer wiring like a short it will make the transistors fail. you can always put inline fuses on the wires when you do this fix but its already fused through your truck wiring so its redundant but you could do it if it made you feel better.
10-11-2014, 02:34 PM
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