Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior LED tail lights

Do LED tail lights for 2000+ celicas exist???? Either halo or multi LED sorta like the new mercedes??

no

nope, sorry

You can pick up some LED replacement bulbs though.

yea i tried the led bulb thing and it malfunctioned my ecu and my abs went out

i tried making my own.. aslos those LED bulbs are illegal.. I used trucker LED's and retrofitted them in.

i want LED tails... maybe somthing to try on someones stock tales.

^^ what he said

I modified my own.

No! :whatever:

that came out nice, good job

ha nice job vvtlr ... It was SOOOOOOOO hard doing it on the stock 2001 celica tail lamps!!!! soooo freaking hard that i only have one side done and it looks "okay" but i do get a hyper blink for the signal lights.. I think I'll have to switch to your tails then to get a better results as the stock ones are too curved to make them straight..

I'll post them up when I get a chance.. also vvtlr
did you do your signal lights??

o wait that is the signal and brake lights i think

Your tails look like snowflakes

looks sweet

The technique is to convert the tail lamp from a 3 wire to a 2 wire tail lights using a trailer tail lamp converter you can get at your local auto parts store. with this the led assembly is able to function all three (parking lights,brake & turn signal).

very nice~
taiwan corollas came with LED tails~ i like it a lot...(along with 4 disc brake and HID )

How about a tep by step guide? or some install picures?

Looks sweet man. I think I'm gonna look into this

vvtlr
wasn't too hard i bet? just dremel out a hole stick them trucker lights in.. perhaps with JB Weld and BAM LED tails!!

although yours was a whole lot easier than mine

Sorry, no pictures. Installation is as easy as opening the tail lights, trim the led assembly, remove the red cap of the original tail lamp, make a hole big enough for the connector to insert through and do the wiring (must have converter). It might be harder than it may sound.

explain the whole process in detail

try www.customled.com [customled.com] they'll do everything for you. they quoted me around 500 for labor plus parts for entire led tail light conversion.

that is so crazey! I likey what i see-e? lolo

$500 is crazy..but if they also provide the tailamps i guess its alright =P.. One single LED Lamp should run about $25 or less so for just brakes which could also double as blinkers like vvtlr should run about $50 plus materials.. JBWeld, a dremal..etc.. about $75 I guess =P..

Doing the retro on his tails are so much easier as compared to mine. So I'm not going to do the other side..=p gonna go back to stock or get tails like vvtlr

I'd be willing to sell mine off and the other set of LED amber and red stop/signal lights. Price I'd be asking for would just be at about what I paid for it. So not too bad I suppose

considering I'm not gonna charge for labor and I just want my money back..

hard part with my tails is the aiming of the led's.. stock seems brighter.. If I'd do it again on these type of tail's I'd only do the Signal light..

i also got some LED's for the license plate. Maybe I'll try it this weekend and post up an install guide if i feel up to trying it out..

more pics...

last one.. got more but i think you get the picture.. if anyone wishes to attempt and LED retrofit into their tailamps I'd suggest tails like vvtlr

Man, call me real late to the party but was kind of hoping there were means to retrofit the stock tails with LEDs. I mean, the method there looks fine, but from what little info I'm finding it seems it's tricky to do the pre-facelift tail lights for retrofitting.

Any modern-day recommendations for getting the OEM tail lights retrofitted?

The OEM Celica tail/brake light is dual filament incandescent 7440.

I replaced them with a LED bulb in the original socket, bought from China via eBay. One is fine, one bulb's wire got hot and burned, melted the socket. It did not blow the fuse and worked well for a couple years. One license plate wire had cracks along 6 inch length.

Eventually I had a short somewhere, tail light fuse blew. A craigslist guy wanted $150 diagnostics then more for repairs. I did not want to spend that money, guessing the shorts are easy to find, went in trouble shooting, replacing the 7.5 A with a 30A so the bulbs stay on long enough for me to find the short, but it overheated, burned and melted the fuse panel, blew the Body Control Module which costs $1,100 at dealer. Most other light bulbs and body functions went kaput, only front head lights and power windows were working. I spent lots of time in many days trying to find and fix the problem to no avail, causing more serious damages. Damn stupid. I was able to buy an used BCM/Fuse panel in eBay for $70.

I suspected a branch of wire harness was shorting inside the hatch's channel, was about to cut wires, pull it out and check for shorts, finally I wised up that I had no tools, did not know how to remove the rear defrosters' terminals without breaking. I called my trusty mechanics, he referred me to a local chassis electrical guy. He said $95 to find and fix the short. He installed the new BCM, things started working again. He looked at the tail light wiring and took out all body plastic panels, found the tail light wire had insulation completely melted along the whole length and a burned out spot behind the panel at the left passenger side. The guy who installed the digital video camera took that panel out and could likely have pinched the wire against the chassis, but that wire is also in the middle of the harness, so who knows.

Repair guy found the tail light wire got hot enough to melt and burn off insulation all along its length. He also found the license plate bulb's insulation brittled, cracked and open in a length about 6 ", could only be caused by heat. This tiny LED bulb supposedly draws very little DC current. I cannot explain why it got so hot. He had to unbundle the wire harness and run a long replacement wire from the burn spot to the fuse box under the dash. He said he found lots of problems with LED bulbs. He repaired thousands cars and should better than I. He replaced all rear light bulbs with incandescent. I paid him $200 total for the extra work. This guy is good and honest, recommended.

Any bros has bette rundersatanding of this LED problem, would be interesting to know.