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Old 06-09-2018, 05:16 PM
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Hello have gotten great advice here! Need to replace rear brake light.....is this doable on my own (I’m not a mechanic)?

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The reg outer lights?!? Very easy.
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Rear brake light came on dash....
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Easy to remove the side panel and remove bulb. Takes maybe 5min. Helps to have something to pry the panel from the top of the driver side. Don’t recall the pass side being hard

I swapped mine out with LED.
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Here are two videos on how to replace the bulbs - very DIY. If you are going the LED route, you will require resistors.


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Another option over resistors is to just wire in a 1156 bulb socket and move the factory bulb to it and put the LED bulb in the factory holder. That’s what i have always done as simple and resistors have given me issues.
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could you re-explain what you mean by wire in a 1156 socket? Just curious, as I've already replaced my halogen bulbs with LED with canbus and the 2013 model year uses a 1156 socket.

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Another option over resistors is to just wire in a 1156 bulb socket and move the factory bulb to it and put the LED bulb in the factory holder. That’s what i have always done as simple and resistors have given me issues.
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Originally Posted by vivaitalia
could you re-explain what you mean by wire in a 1156 socket? Just curious, as I've already replaced my halogen bulbs with LED with canbus and the 2013 model year uses a 1156 socket.
if using canbus bulbs then no need to wire anything in.

But to answer you get a 1156 or what size needed socket with wires and just tap into the stock wires to the bulb you are replacing. Move OE bulb to new socket and put LED in the OE socket.
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Thanks for the great post maneesh, i was able to replace the rear tail light on my 2015 GL450.
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I found these LED bulbs to be a perfect swap, no error code, no hyper flash, instant on and much brighter. 5 mins plug and play swap.

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These were the ones I used about a year ago ... no errors ... at the time it was the highest lumens (~1,500) I could find that didn't give me error codes ...

https://amzn.to/2PBm96R https://amzn.to/2PBm96R
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Originally Posted by htce38
I found these LED bulbs to be a perfect swap, no error code, no hyper flash, instant on and much brighter. 5 mins plug and play swap.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
FWIW, I tried these bulbs for the brake lights and it resulted in error codes on both sides.

YMMV.
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I got no error codes with these on my 2013 GL450

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FWIW, I tried these bulbs for the brake lights and it resulted in error codes on both sides.

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