Anyone want to help a newbie!!

I cannot find anything on it anywhere. I am looking at LED turn signal bulbs for the rear of my 2015 Outlander Sport but where in the world are we supposed to mount the resistor for the rear of the car. I have looked everywhere for advice on the best mounting location for the resistor but cannot find anything. They say they get hot as hell I do not want to melt the back of my tail light housing. if this is posted somewhere else please let me know where because i couldnt find it anywhere.

EDIT: I might have found it. I seen a post that is mounting it to the body of the car directly behind the tail light in the body groove. Thats considered a safe place? Sorry for the dumb question I dont know a lot about LEDs / resistors and just sick and tired of the stupid factory turn signals.

 

I am not sure whether your find is my post or not as your description concerning the location of the resistor is ambiguous. I have placed the resistors (one per side was enough for the four LED bulbs to prevent hyper flashing) UNDER the rear taillights in the bumper bay area. I have fixed them to the metal body by screws to achieve sufficient heat dissipation. Here is my original post (post #935).
If you want to replace only the rear turn signals with LEDs you will not need load resistors provided you buy the kind ones I shown in the above referenced post.

 

No another post that was taking about led tail lights ( my 15 has factory led tails) so i skipped the post orginallly but upon second look i noticed a picture with a load resistor. I had considered your location at first just didnt know if it would work or was a good place. I will for sure go that direction over any others i have seen so far. So im replacing all four lights so i just need one resistor on each side not on all four lights? ordering parts within the week just trying to figure out what i was wanting. Thanks for the help!!!

 

Yes, it is correct if you buy the kind I have (these have some unknown resistors built in). Apparently some ECUs do not trigger hyper flashing but Mitsu's need one resistor per side. I would warn you about the super short wires in the front turn signals. There would be extremely difficult to add load resistors to the front without cutting wires. I do suggest to buy the tried and true types to avoid problems.

 

Sadly I had to do this to put the resistors in the front. Been there a few months with no problems but make sure you do it right with solder and shrink tape to avoid problems.

To answer the OP the rear has a small space right up against the trunk side that has space for them without touching plastic. Just make sure to use some quality mounting tape. You COULD do rivets but I personally never recommend drilling holes in a metal panel. Thats just my two cents

 

Thanks for sharing your experience. I agree with the first part of your suggestion. However, from a pure technical point of view I would not recommend using any mounting tape as the tape is not a good heat conductor, rather an insulator. You need to dissipate the heat generated by the operation of the load resistor and that can only be done sufficiently with metal-to-metal contacts. Thus, one has to make the decision whether to install the electric components according to their intended purpose or cut corners and deal with the excess heat. Drilling holes and screw the load resistor to a large metal surface will ensure that you dissipate the generated heat. Do not forget that the wires will also heat up near the resistor if the heat has nowhere to go and high temperature will result the wire insulation to crack over time that is the recipe for potentially shorting your circuit. It is worth mentioning that glues generally tend to weaken at higher temperatures (this is why heat gun is an efficient tool to separate glued surfaces).

 

That's a good point. I've always been worried about rust since I live in a really humid area (Kentucky/Southern Indiana) so I used a double sided tape.