After a year of procrastinating I finally switched over to my Hard wired set of Bulb Sockets for my Sedan.
A year or so back I made up a Printed Circuit board to accept the White Harness connector at the taillights. It’s a simple board with a bunch of Holes in it for wires.
I have a set of beat up taillights so I had a full set of sockets. With some wire (color coded properly) I wired up the set. It sat in the old Lenses until last weekend.
Recently I’ve been fighting with a scenario that all the lights function but every once in a while the Sensor light on the dash would come on and go off and it was driving me nuts. I did the typical things I have done over the years. Clean the contacts with a Pencil eraser and make sure the connector was seating proper. It was still giving me grief. Stupid pride was keeping me fighting this issue and not swapping in the hard-wired set. It’s been about a week of No Warning Light, I should have abandoned the Flex circuits a year ago. I even incorporated two diodes on the circuit board so the Fog lights come on when stepping on the brakes But the fogs act normally. The ’89 has two rear fog lights so it works out nice. I also added another bulb on the bottom for running lights. The entire bottom of the lens illuminates instead of the empty gap in the middle.
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