JAL rear light swap, a couple of questions.

[Peter G]

Evening gents. Just fitting JAL rear LED lights. Just the card and cable. I've got the wiring terminals right, but how do you get the terminals out of the existing male socket? And I see that the lens cover retaining screws fix to the original galv backplate, so with the new card in place how does the lense get fitted? Do I put the new card on top of the old galv backplate after stripping off the old bulb holders etc?

TIA

[SM25T]

Yes. Mount pcb on top of steel backplate after removing original fittings. I don't recall having to remove pins from any connectors ?

[Peter G]

Thanks Ian, I wanted to remove the pins from the old plate rather than cut them off, you never know.......

[Hampshire West AR]

They have a little barb that needs pushing with a small screwdriver while pulling the wire out of the back of the connector.

Nick

[Peter G]

Thanks Nick, Youtube came to my rescue on this.

[John Vine]

When I fitted the JAL rear light PCB to my 2008 car, it was just plug'n'play with Econoseals.  What year is your car?

JV

[Hampshire West AR]

If you read his question he wants to disconnect the wires without cutting, I did similar as I wanted to be able to retrofit the originals if so desired in the future. Looks like he has it sorted anyway. I already had some spare plates to save hacking off the reflectors too.

 

[Peter G]

Indeed I did. But having had to butcher the backplates to use them again to use the lens cover screws attached to the original backplate there's no way I'll now be retrofitting. Had new econoseals with the kit I bought which needed the terminals feeding though to the right place. Not quite plug and play but not too difficult. 

Next, LED headlamps!

[John Vine]

#7  If you read his question he wants to disconnect the wires without cutting,

You're right.  A touch of brain-fade on my part, as I replaced the whole assembly.

JV