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The third brake light on my 05 coupe has gone out too. I did some trouble shooting on the circuit and found that the two middle LED's were bad, thus breaking the circuit making the whole light not work at all. I ended up jumping the middle section so now I at least have 4 of the 6 LED's working. I would like to be able to replace the two LED's. Does anyone know where I can get them? I found some that were similar, but someone has already said that they don't really match all that good. If anyone has any ideas they would be appreciated, thanks.
A little late, but I just fixed my 3rd brake light. Turns out the 2 middle LEDs were out; I ordered a few different kinds and turns out one of them was a perfect match as far as I can tell. Here's a link to it here. Hope this helps somebody
Mine quoted over $300. I'm going to check around. It is a safety issue, anything to help others see when I'm stopping. But not immediate, since I still have normal brake lights.
I got you both beat. My dealership (401 Dixie Infiniti in Mississauga, ON, Canada) quoted me $520 (!!!!) yesterday (I think it was 2.5 hours labour, so that would make the part $250). Even with the exchange rate that's like $500 USD.
My third brake light was working off and on, so I decided to try and solder a new diode on. I got all the way to the last step, but this is my first time soldering anything electrical. My question is, how to I fully desolder the bad diode? I can get the solder on the front side of the circuit board, but the diode connection goes all the way onto the backside of the circuit board. I am not sure how to fully get it off. Any help would be appreciated!
Last edited by MyfistYourFace; Mar 21, 2015 at 09:55 PM.
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Use a desoldering gun sometines called a solder sucker.
You basically heat up the solder with the iron and thrn use the solder sucker to literally suck the hot solder away. You end up with a clean board and loose component
Takes a bit of practice but since you already have an iron, this is the other 1/2 of the tool. You can also (carefully) melt the solder and then physically bang the board against a towel or something (beware of flying molten metal!)
Hahah if I get burnt with a little molten metal it will be well worth it if it fixes this damn brake light! I'll try it with the wick again and if that fails I'll go to radio shack and get a pump.
Just wanted to add some pictures for others that are going to tackle this problem.
This is where the screw goes on the driver's side.
Here you can see it took me two attempts to get the drilled hole to match where the screw is on the passenger's side. I was never able to put this screw back in, I haven't had any problems of the light moving around so oh well!
