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Natasha D'Abreo
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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 07:35 am, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

I just bought 94 tail lights recently, waiting for them to arrive... just wondering, would i need to get different colour bulbs or switch where the bulbs are or something, how does that work?
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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 10:59 am, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

ok, so i got my tail lights today, yay! Theres 4bolts to undo, whats it mean if i loosen it, it turns but dosnt come on, does that mean its threaded?

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 11:07 am, by: Warren Moore (Warreng)

the tail lights didn't come with a wiring harness or bulbs? normally the seller provides those. however im pretty sure the wiring harness and bulbs are the same for 91-94, could be wrong though.

about the 4 bolts, your saying they loosen but don't come off the screw?

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 11:56 am, by: Michael Mockiewicz (Mikez30)

With the '94 tails, you'll have the hyper blink problem (indicators blink at a fast rate) as these tail lights only use 1 indicator bulb compared to the 3 bulbs that pre '94 tails lights use.

I have '94 tails as well (which came with the harness though) & just wired 2 extra indicator bulbs on either side of the tail lights to fix the hyper blink.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:21 pm, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

i think i wrote it wrong, the lights have the harness, probably works, but i can get the 91 lights off to get the 94 lights in. The bolts twist but dont actually come off, at all...

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

sorry meant to write cant get bolts off to remove the 91 lights, used a 10mm ring spanner and socket. Didnt work though.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:48 pm, by: Michael Mockiewicz (Mikez30)

The studs could be threaded as you said. So all 6 of them turn but don't come off ? Do the nuts move easily or are they hard to twist ? Mine were a bit stubborn too, but I used a socket wrench. If you don't plan on selling or keeping your current tails, I'd just snap the studs & be done with it ha ha & put these nicer '94's in. But I'm an idiot so

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm, by: Matt Petersen (Mattmannz)

They aren't bolts, they are just nuts. The nuts should wind off leaving studs.

If the nut is turning the stud then you need to apply some leverage to get them to pull out.

You will also need to either modify the brake and indicator harness or the lamp out module and the flasher module

Matt

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:54 pm, by: Aaron Casey (Blownminiturbo)

why would you want to go back to 91's after 94's lol
also cut the purple wire to your tail light module then the dash wont keep telling you that there is a bulb out.
try using a 10mm spanner and hold the stud with vice grips or pliers really hard. someone has obviously overtightened them

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:56 pm, by: Aaron Casey (Blownminiturbo)

actually.... rattle gun!! fixes everything.. make sure its a 3/4 inch one too. get about 3 adapters to get it down to 10mm then fire it up haha

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 01:29 pm, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

damn i thought it would just plug in, so i need to change the wires and stuff otherwise itl blink to fast. Hmm breaking the stud off, haha that happened to one already. Everythings so much more difficult than what i think haha.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 01:42 pm, by: Michael Mockiewicz (Mikez30)

Just get 4 bulbs & their sockets from your old wiring harness, cut the 2 wires coming from the sockets at a reasonable length, & splice 2 on either tail light into your new '94 wiring harness on either tail light.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 02:27 pm, by: Rowan McMahon (Mr_eps)

i haven't got any advice to offer here... i am only posting because i just want to comment how CONFUSING this thread is!!!

NOTHING IS MAKING SENSE because people keep making crucial typos haha.. things like this are very hard to understand via the internet!

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 05:24 pm, by: Boris Siljanoski (Z2tt)

Hi,

Firstly, wiring in extra bulbs to fix fast flashing is not the correct way.

You need to modify the flasher unit by replacing the 3u3 capacitor with a 6u8. Here is a really good guide by Luke Gomer :

Also by cutting wires to remove the lamp failure warning, you take away a real nice feature. It's better to source a lamp failure unit from the Soarer the tail lights came from, this way you can retain your function so long as the plugs are the same.

I'm going to experiment to see if I can modify the existing lamp failure unit to work with different taillights.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 05:44 pm, by: Michael Mockiewicz (Mikez30)

Indeed it is not the correct way Boris, I am not fussy by any means whether it is correct or not, it works

& does the job, for me anyway. A quick DIY fix for if you don't have the time or resources as the guide above.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 05:58 pm, by: Natasha D'Abreo (Natashad)

yeh yeh i know my typos are bad... i was on my phone. Oh well some people got me haha. I couldnt get the stud or bolt or whatever off, so that was annoying. Why is a stupid stud hard to get off? I'll wait till tomorrow and try again.

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 08:54 pm, by: Rowan McMahon (Mr_eps)

It's because you have a Soarer that's why haha...

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 09:41 pm, by: Mario Lentini (Lexus94)

In the tail lights the studs that I THINK your talking about are fixed into the lights , If the stud is turning with the nut then the stud is turning in the plastic , if you can get something to hold the end of the stud and use an open end spanner on the nut that may work but if not and your not using the lights again get vise grips on the end of the stud and pull it straight out and you maybe lucky with it sliding out of the plastic .

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Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 12:08 am, by: Warren Moore (Warreng)

fast flashing?

daniel blackham from the forums removed my 91's and installed my 94's in 5 minutes without this fast flashing problem..

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Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 08:50 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

Michael Mockiewicz wrote on Friday, December 10, 2010 - 05:44 pm:
Indeed it is not the correct way Boris, I am not fussy by any means whether it is correct or not, it works & does the job, for me anyway. A quick DIY fix for if you don't have the time or resources as the guide above.

The problem is its not very safe. Bulbs get hot, and sometimes even burst if they blow, and if not properly mounted in a engineered housing can cause fires. I guess if you have them properly secured it would be OK but if they are just kinda drifting around...