Originally Posted by skokkosis

sorry guys! i will do it this evening, i've been honestly trying to nail sundown so it can be dark enough to show the lights fully, but bright enough to show you the wiring harness and such! will do this evening promise! will load with photobucket, depending on their loading time then it will fully be up after they authorize the video

Originally Posted by skokkosis

video's loading up on youtube guys, haha taking 50 minutes, once done, all yours!

Originally Posted by master9999

HI man, thanks for yout video, I really appreciate that, but I could not find steps for how to remove those cover/shield in the trunk so I can see / access the wires ? Sorry for my stupid question..

Originally Posted by master9999

Thank you, skokkosis. really nice car and awesome hardware solution for the fog light issue! :-)

btw, I will head to Europe on Saturday and will get back on Oct 16th, please take your time.for pics. (or a video can simply indicate screws, latch/lug I should remove, you have done enough, I don't want you take your car in pieces again) in the mean time I will still work on this, (from DAS simulator)
so I can narrow down to few parameters.

anyone. if you can assist for a " Detach tail lamp video" , please speak up; so I can work on the coding issue, that would be highly appreciated, and open sharing is promised, thank you!

Originally Posted by saferisk

Really looking forward to this, I'll give it a shot for some pics too, weather here isnt the bes...t

Originally Posted by dockt

Well I've had these LEDs on for a while now and the look is starting to annoy me... I'll need to get a picture, but not only is the driver's side rear fog on, but I believe even when just driving around (where these taillights now have a "daytime running" function where just the 2 red horizontal LEDs are on), the passenger's side lower brake light is partially illuminated -- this looks bad. In addition, when braking, b/c the pass. side brake light is already activated it becomes even brighter and does not match the driver's side brake light. These are the tails I got from parts.com. For those with these same US tails, please verify that you are or are not getting this same functioning.

Last week, I also took the car to a local shop that has the STAR developer platform and we worked on it for over an hour. He seemed pretty comfortable navigating the software, but ultimately was unsuccessful. It seems that there is a fault that reads "the output for the right rear fog light has a malfunction. There is a short circuit to postivie or an open circuit." He told me that somehow this fault prevented him from getting into the coding of the rear SAM itself... He was able to control on/off of the left rear fog from the computer, but again, the fault was preventing further work...



For those who have done it, or are thinking of doing the coding, I have a set of screen pics of the developer software and specific messages (some in german) that I can send to you if you think you can help or are just curious. I just can't believe we have not been able to come up with a DIY or some cookbook instructions on this issue yet!!

Originally Posted by saferisk

Hey there, I've purchased some instructions... (quite expensive I might add) but I'm not 100% sure if they will work, I'm going to the dealership next week to see if they are in fact good.

If they do in fact work, I'd be happy to post up here if I can get a couple of donations to cover a bit of the cost. One thing I might add however is that I'm in Australia and for me it isnt just one side LEDs coming on, its both sides. I have the euro spec tail-lights. I'll get some more pics to show what I mean.

Originally Posted by master9999

Thanks in advance, Saferisk :-)

Originally Posted by skokkosis

hey guys! i just got a chance to sit down on my computer and take off this job for the day... i was in the trunk for over 5 hours tinkering with the fog problem! the diy i have to offer, has turned into a temporary fix for all who will like to it... i thought i had everything ready for install today, last evening i put in the tail lights, fully and flawlessly working (fog error, and fog on still on) i had worked on my reverse bulbs to be a white led a few months back, and since nobody had any input on which color wire was the reverse i had taken the time to splice up the harness's wires and discover which wire it was (on the driver side tail it's the grey/blue wire, if anyone is interested in getting error free reverse azn has a great product, but i wanted brighter so i took my own route by tapping into that wire (+) a resistor and then the other end of the resistor into the ground (-) the brown wire, as for the passenfer side tail, i need to open up the area and give you guys the wire for that side i needed to tap into, i will if anyone needs it, i believe is the ground for the whole harness is the brown wire only, but if not it MAY help us to getting a solution to the fog error if some of the other wires are grounds as well)

NONETHELESS back on topic... the wire that feeds the signal to the fog is the green wire, i believe this is only for US models, if for european as well, then this is referring solely to the driver side tail, no idea what wire you would need to work with on the passenger side)

what i believe the possible issues are that perhaps the resistor i was using [100ohm 10 watt 10% tolerance resistor] may be the first possible problem, the tails led's may need a completely different resistor for the issue, that resistor has worked to give me error free codes on every single area i've added led's (sidemarkers, lic. plate bulbs, interior floor lighting, reverse led's, i got my eyebrow led's pre-resisted from azn so i did not need to toy with resisting them)

for a temporary fix, since i believe that driving around with the fog on looks goofy, i have come to completely cutting the green wire, since i'll have to deal with the error code until another alternative comes out except working w. the SAM i will live with the error code at least by not having the led's on perhaps azn optics can give in some aid being that he's found out our cars response to led's and how to fix the error codes via his resisted bulbs, he may be able to give us some help with the info i have put up, it may just be that i'm using a wrong resistor, any type anyone recommend i should grab from radio shack or even online and give a go incase it gets things working?

guys i really tried getting something here to benefit and help everyone, i assumed that resisting (like a previous member had mentioned here as well) would do the trick, but i'm out of luck, i will keep working on my tails hopefully getting them to work, but until then this is the full feedback i have for everyone, and the route i took! hope this helps everyone for now, if anyone needs any info or help on white reverse led's, sidemarkers, fogs, or floor lighting, i'll be glad to help! until then i will be posting a video in a few for everyone to see mine working without the fog on, and how they look lit up, sorry again guys!

Originally Posted by dockt

Brake lights are not LED.