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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 09:10 PM
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After installing the taillights I'm getting radio interference when using the turn signals or the brake lights. I tryed wrapping the wires with aluminum foil with no success. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Contact the vendor - I never had any radio interferrence when I installed a set of the LED taillights.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by JDs00PewterCoupe
Contact the vendor - I never had any radio interferrence when I installed a set of the LED taillights.
No issues here and I have had my LED Halos on for several years
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 12:15 AM
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No issue with mine, A friend I know did buy some from eBay that were like 140 bucks for all 4 and he had the noise you are talking, He never did get rid of it yet, On his it was am only and I told him no one uses am ...lol
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well I am intersted in the responses too. I put the Halo tail lights on and everything was good. I then put LED's in the from corners and now I have radio interference when I didn't before. I pulled the lights back out and the interference was gone. I liked the lights so I just listen to more CD's than radio now.
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 11:44 AM
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 11:46 AM
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No problems with my LED Halos
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 09:30 PM
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Where did you buy them from? If they are the ones off of ebay then those are poorly made. The ones form JW Motoring cost more, but are made much better and do not produce radio noise. I have a set from JW Motoring and they are great.
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Originally Posted by Vette Dog
Where did you buy them from? If they are the ones off of ebay then those are poorly made. The ones form JW Motoring cost more, but are made much better and do not produce radio noise. I have a set from JW Motoring and they are great.
mine for JW Motoring work great and i never had the hyper flash like alot of the others had.
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Originally Posted by peter pan
No issues here and I have had my LED Halos on for several years
No problemos here either.
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Im having similar issues. I have an 02 Z06 that I bought LED tail lights for. After the install when the radio is on and i apply my brakes or use my blinkers the radio interference I get is horrible! I really dont know what to do about this problem as i am not an electrical guy. Did you ever figure your problem out? Anyone?
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Originally Posted by o_sobad_3
Im having similar issues. I have an 02 Z06 that I bought LED tail lights for. After the install when the radio is on and i apply my brakes or use my blinkers the radio interference I get is horrible! I really dont know what to do about this problem as i am not an electrical guy. Did you ever figure your problem out? Anyone?
I am going to take a guess here and if I am wrong I am sorry, It looks like the tails you have are the cheap eBay units without the built in hyper flash and other built in circuits. Could this be the case?
If so that could be your issue.
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