Funny thing started to happen after I replaced the interior incandescent lights with the led festoon lights from Van Cafe. I have a delayed dim light unit at drivers side position which worked flawlessly for a few months with the stock incandescents. But recently I put in LED festoons in all 3 interior light spots (86 syncro 7 pass.). The delay dim feature still worked...most times. But sometimes, and it seems more often to occur when a door is opened when van running, the delay feature does not work. I do notice that the lights dim a tad after 6 seconds (about the time when the lights should go off after door closed), but do not go out. Well they do go out after a few minutes, haven't had patience to time it.
It doesn't always happen, and it doesn't seem to be related to any one door switch. I have checked the door switches/wires. It might be just a coincidence with the light replacement or it might be something to do with the electrical draw of the LEDs. But its hard to figure out seeing as its intermittent. Not a big problem, but an interesting one :) alistair PS the LED interior lights are a lot brighter. I especially like the LED in the map light spot. At same time i popped in white LED lights on dash. I like it, but to tell you the truth, they are not much better than the home made LED lights I played around with years ago, before these were on the market. |
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