thats incorrect. solder is what holds led's to the circuit boards.. nothing else. these led's are called snap led's and are put together by a machine. but most led's are soldered. it is a solid connection and dosent come loose.. there are things/times called cold solder joints, but that is different. they can take a beating as thats what they were designed for.

as for quick connects/butt splices, those are the least reliable connections known to man. nothing is more permanant/reliable than a soldered joint/wire. It can be proven very easily.

take apart any led factory or aftermarket led item and you will see it all soldered..

 

BTW: nice writeup! good for the cheapy's / DIY'rs out there.. bet that took awhile to write up.. LOL..

BE PATIENT WITH THE DREMEL, IT CAN OWN YOU!

 

frustrated bump because this never made it to the tech section and took me forever to find.

Edit: it made it to the tech section, I was looking for third or lighting not 3rd.

alphabetical order ftl

 

actually.. it's listed under '3rd Brake Light (Full)' under the tC, electronics section of tech

sorry you had a tough time.

 

Hey Trung, I thought this made it to the DIY list? from the tech section right?

 

yea.. it's like the first one..?

 

edited my above post - sorry for the confusion.

It might be worth nothing that in place of the DIY kit, (at the moment, unavailable) one can pick up 2 stock TBL's off the PPC and have a nice bright TBL for a fraction of the cost of the competition.

Best of all you get to practice with your dremel, and pick the best cut to glue back together into your TBL.

 

if there's enough interests ill bring it back...

 

Hello, are you guys still doing these TBL's? I don't want to do it myself, please pm me the price. I'm in SoCal, so I can drive if you're close... Thanks!

 

you guys still have some diy kit trung

 

they're discontinued. but I just happen to get one off of a member here. gonna do it tomorrow. will post pics!

 

im looking forward to bring back DIY kits! stay tuned!

 

will it be the same exact kit? any changes?

 

finished, dried, gave it a second layer of epoxy, dried again and finally installed it this morning. btw, these leds match nicely with the tyc leds

 

exact same kit!

 

I had been thinking of making a full length brake light when I found this write up. I took it one step further when I found a set of LED's that had a sequential turn signal function. The LED's that I used I got at Autozone, they are called "TailLitz LEDs" they are made by Alpena which is the same company that makes all those colored LED strips. These are them.
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After following the instructions here, and a bit of wiring this is what I ended up with. This video shows the 3rd brake light while I hit the lock button on the key fob which is the same as having the 4-way flashers on. Excuse the missing bezel, I was in the process of removing the Scion emblem from it.

 

The video doesn't work. At least not anymore. Actually the DIY and almost all the pictures on this thread don't work. It might just be me and my dumb work computer but just a heads up.

I would love to get a full TBL for my RS 3.0. I think it would look so much better with the 3.0 LED tails then the 1/3 lit TBL.

 

yea, i couldn't figure out why they would design it like that except to save some $

the left third portion of my lights went out so I gotta see what's going on. Blizz, I can shoot you some pics when I get around to them. It was a pretty easy DIY. PM me ur email