Replace Individual LEDs in Tail Lights

[firm0707]

Dears,

Many thanks for your replies, guidelines and advise.
Just finished my work on it. I've only changed few of turning signal LEDs for now. But now in a future I guess it wouldn't be a great issue to open it again and replace whatever I'll need.

After resoldered I closed it using buthyl tape.
Planning to perform the same on the left one (unless I have my friend Dremel)) ) to have a possibility to solder at any time.

[y2k_o__o]

Yes and no...

I bought a spare LED tail light from eBay to tool around with. I have several observations...

- Don't try removing the clear lens cover if yours is already attached well. It will be difficult to reattach and make it look perfect. I cut open the back side instead to access the circuit board. That said, if your seal is already broken, might as well pop it off the rest of the way.
- My LEDs all work fine - something is wrong in the circuit board that causes them to not light up. It seems like an overly complex design to turn on a few LEDs so I haven't been able to troubleshoot it.
- The brightness of the LEDs or driver circuitry varies from year to year so getting a used light unit and swapping it is a gamble.

These lights are super cheaply made and delicate.

My recommendation is just cough up the $ and buy a new one if yours breaks.

I have a pair of tail light that has the cover detached already. How do I remove the chrome reflector and reach the PCB?

[y2k_o__o]

sweet! Got a link to the piranha LED parts?

Here's what I found on aliexpress, and these piranha led seems to have the same metal base as ours. Not really sure if it has the same wavelength as our OEM ones.

I haven't taken my LED light apart yet. If someone already has the LED board out, please compare the dimension against the diagram below

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004344029448.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.2 5.25f5VwpLVwpL1z&algo_pvid=dda7bbb7-9c82-43e2-83f2-69ab666559c9&algo_exp_id=dda7bbb7-9c82-43e2-83f2-69ab666559c9-12&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%2216%22%2C%22eval% 2 2%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21CAD%213.62%213.62 %21%21%212.47%212.47%21%402101d9ee1738992222421770 9ec11b%2112000028837198917%21sea%21CA%21100962474% 21X&curPageLogUid=9saC5QfqV8TN&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A

I can see that positioning the LED accurately would be a challenge. so I have to think of a way to align them before de-solder the old ones out.