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FACT: orange bulbs of your car are as old as Thomas Edisson that invent them!
I purchase from eaytoworks.com a set of the PUTCO multi led 3157 bulbs and the nitro got a fresh new look.
The old bulbs where never turn off when you set the alarm or turn signal, before they become off they turn on again...now they go on and off on a high tech way, common with all Led's!

If you install them you'll get bulb error indications. To solve this problem you need to connect in parralel a resistor with the exact value 28,5 OHM / 15Watt. Doesn't matter if you wire many resistors together in series as long you get a load at 28,5 OHM / 15 watt which you connect parallel at the turn signal.

Putco suggest another value which is UNIVERSAL, DO NOT PURCHASE IT!
if you connect what PUTCO suggests you will not be notified if the NITRO led bulb goes bad PLUS you consume a lot more electrical current than needed.

At night time the led's has the same illumination, at day time when the sun hits directlly it is weak.
 

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FACT: orange bulbs of your car are as old as Thomas Edisson that invent them!
I purchase from eaytoworks.com a set of the PUTCO multi led 3157 bulbs and the nitro got a fresh new look.
The old bulbs where never turn off when you set the alarm or turn signal, before they become off they turn on again...now they go on and off on a high tech way, common with all Led's!

If you install them you'll get bulb error indications. To solve this problem you need to connect in parralel a resistor with the exact value 28,5 OHM / 15Watt. Doesn't matter if you wire many resistors together in series as long you get a load at 28,5 OHM / 15 watt which you connect parallel at the turn signal.

Putco suggest another value which is UNIVERSAL, DO NOT PURCHASE IT!
if you connect what PUTCO suggests you will not be notified if the NITRO led bulb goes bad PLUS you consume a lot more electrical current than needed.

At night time the led's has the same illumination, at day time when the sun hits directlly it is weak.
Good info, thanks for sharing. :smileup:
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FACT: orange bulbs of your car are as old as Thomas Edisson that invent them!
I purchase from eaytoworks.com a set of the PUTCO multi led 3157 bulbs and the nitro got a fresh new look.
The old bulbs where never turn off when you set the alarm or turn signal, before they become off they turn on again...now they go on and off on a high tech way, common with all Led's!

If you install them you'll get bulb error indications. To solve this problem you need to connect in parralel a resistor with the exact value 28,5 OHM / 15Watt. Doesn't matter if you wire many resistors together in series as long you get a load at 28,5 OHM / 15 watt which you connect parallel at the turn signal.

Putco suggest another value which is UNIVERSAL, DO NOT PURCHASE IT!
if you connect what PUTCO suggests you will not be notified if the NITRO led bulb goes bad PLUS you consume a lot more electrical current than needed.

At night time the led's has the same illumination, at day time when the sun hits directlly it is weak.
do you by chance have any pictures of the resistor you wired in and where you put it? i heard the resistors get very hot and so you have to mount it on metal no plastic
 

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do you by chance have any pictures of the resistor you wired in and where you put it? i heard the resistors get very hot and so you have to mount it on metal no plastic
15 Watt resistors may get just a little hot, but I have wraped it inside heat shrink and mount it at the fender with tie wrap. I think I can post a photo.
 

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do you by chance have any pictures of the resistor you wired in and where you put it? i heard the resistors get very hot and so you have to mount it on metal no plastic
Here it is afront of the airbox, tied to this hole on the fender :smileup:
 
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