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Old Mar 1, 2013 | 11:09 AM
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Dead DRL

2009 Canadian RA,

I change the DRL bulbs to LED, it was working fine, but recently both LED bulb went all dead.

It's not the bulb, I took one of the LED bulb out and change back to old bulb - nothing.

I checkd/changed the fuse (10A - #11 fuse in the engine compartment), the fuse was fine.

I checked the power for the bulb with a multi-meter, no power. Anyone has a clue as to what is wrong?

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Old Mar 1, 2013 | 12:56 PM
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well if it's not the bulb and it's not the fuse check the relay, then the wiring.
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Old Mar 1, 2013 | 01:31 PM
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break out the test light and start checking.
Sometimes fuses can be very deceptive and you all ways double check with a test light
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Old Mar 2, 2013 | 08:58 AM
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Pretty sure it's not the fuse. I exchange the fuse with another 10A. The relays.. I have tested all the blue and black by exchanging them around. I have not been able to test the big grey relay because there is not a another grey relay to exchange.

Anyone know which relay is for the DRL, is it the big grey one? I going to have to figure out to test the grey relay. Can I use a test light to check it(dont have one)?

My other concern, is once this is fixed, will it happened again because I used LED bulbs.
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 11:35 AM
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Well, I got it fixed.

It was neither the fuse nor relay. I had to get oem stock bulbs and replaced BOTH bulbs then it started working again.

Thanks everyone for their advices.
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Old Mar 5, 2013 | 09:16 AM
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I've been running these 18 LED DRL's for almost 8 months now, I was going through standard bulbs like every 3-6 months so that's the reason I switched. The Evo X and our cars put out 14v to the DRL so you need to find a good LED bulb that can support the voltage. The ones i linked to above are 10~30 VDC.
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