LED Spoiler issues

[JTEK24]

My LED spoiler keeps blowing the fuse for the brake lights and took out the rear windshield light too. So I know its not a short anywhere, are there any other ways for wiring it up?

[quickangel93]

put a 10 amp higher fuse. your fuse is blowing cus its asking for more power and your fuse is not letting it. so making sure nothing blows, the fuse goes. i say get a higher fuse and go on from there.

[NAiL05]

put a 10 amp higher fuse. your fuse is blowing cus its asking for more power and your fuse is not letting it. so making sure nothing blows, the fuse goes. i say get a higher fuse and go on from there.

No. Dont put in a larger fuse your just asking for more problems. If its just popping you have a short to ground. Look for bare metal touching wires. Good place to start looking. Are you installing this like an aftermarket deal or did your car come with the LED spoiler?

[quickangel93]

yea nelson how would it be a ground. if you wire it up to the factory stop lights you dont touch ground.

[Josh26]

Double or tripple check your wires look for bare wire or anything.

[BlackPearl2006]

If it came aftermarket (not installed by dealer/factory), could be someone just spliced it into the brakelamps or center highmount lamp and some POWER wire is exposed, touching the chassis. If you can, follow where the LED wires (one black, one red) lead to from the trunk and see where it's spliced into. Then check for exposed power wire (red).

To be safe, maybe use new wire and just wire it yourself from the LED leads to the brake lamp wire. It's possible some of the LED wire got stripped between the trunklid and wherever it connects, since the trunk lid moves a lot.

just my 2 cents

[JTEK24]

Its aftermarket, and I had it spliced with the rear window light but now I have checked the fuses and it still doesnt work. so Im not sure what to do. I tried raising the fuse to a higher one that didnt work so now Im just going to check the spoiler wires and then re-ground it. but which brake light wire is recommended for power for the spoiler?

[LinX]

I wired the spoiler to the third brake light wires and did away with the third brake light entirely. However, I needed to put a resistor in between the circuit so my brake warning light doesnt come on in the front. This is because LED's have a much lower resistance than a regular bulb and so the computer thinks the fuse is blown if there is minimal resistance.

[JTEK24]

What ohm resister did you use? and for some reason the rear lamp doesnt work when i replaced the bulb now and the fuse isnt blown so i don't know what the deal is with that.

[LinX]

6 Ohm