Led Turn signal upgrade issues

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Jonathan R.

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I have recently upgraded all my turn signal bulbs to led (not side marker) and have added the resistors into the wiring. My problem is that I still have the marker lights on the dashboard staying lit. Another thing is that the drivers side front led bulb is very dull. I have only had the bulbs in for a week or so and just now got the resistors installed. I'm not good with electrical so I'm hoping someone has a simple fix.

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Interested in outcome. I replaced my 198's with LED.
 

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I replaced some of my bulbs with led’s and a new “led flasher relay” for the blinkers and it got them working correctly. I would get a new hazard relay right away as well.

Check and clean all of the grounds in the light harness.
 

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Interested in the outcome also. I had a 92 Civic that did the same. I removed two leds and put the incandescent back in and the problem went away. I didnt care enough to track down the problem.
 

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I replaced some of my bulbs with led’s and a new “led flasher relay” for the blinkers and it got them working correctly. I would get a new hazard relay right away as well.

Check and clean all of the grounds in the light harness.
You need the electronic flasher. Ive also tried to make leds work in mine with no luck.

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Did some digging and re wired a few connections and got them working enough to be legal. Turns out the dim bulb was a bad connection. The dash signals I still haven't fixed yet. I will look into getting the flashers ment for leds and hopefully update further. Thank you all for the suggestions.
 

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You need the electronic flasher. Ive also tried to make leds work in mine with no luck.

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Mine work just fine. I have led’s in the sidemarker lights and in the dash. I got the led flasher relay from lmc
 

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