Need a little basic 101 electrical advice so figured I would post here..
Long story short - My white led drivers side door stripe burned out on my Alltrack. I tracked it down to the small Hella led chip board failing. If you didnt already know VW plastic welded this all to the door and it's not serviceable other than to replace the whole door card. Eff that, I am going to fix this single led!
I purchased a used drivers side door card which was advertised for an Alltrack. I extracted the led chip board from that one by melting away the surrounding plastic with a hot knife. I plugged it into my door card harness and tested and lo and behold it's a God Damn red led from a GTI WTF lol!
My last resort since I had everything apart was to see if I could de solder the white led on 1 chip and re solder it to the other which I failed at and destroyed both lol.
Now my next step is to just purchase a single white led and plug it into the harness which is all I would need to get the led door stripe working again.
Need a recommendation on what type of led to purchase. I ask because the Hella chip that came out of the car is a little more advanced than a single led possibly to work with the dimming option on the mfd, but not sure. Will a basic single white led with 2 wires +/- work in this case? If not any recommendations on what to purchase, I don't mind soldering something if I need to.
Long story short - My white led drivers side door stripe burned out on my Alltrack. I tracked it down to the small Hella led chip board failing. If you didnt already know VW plastic welded this all to the door and it's not serviceable other than to replace the whole door card. Eff that, I am going to fix this single led!
I purchased a used drivers side door card which was advertised for an Alltrack. I extracted the led chip board from that one by melting away the surrounding plastic with a hot knife. I plugged it into my door card harness and tested and lo and behold it's a God Damn red led from a GTI WTF lol!
My last resort since I had everything apart was to see if I could de solder the white led on 1 chip and re solder it to the other which I failed at and destroyed both lol.
Now my next step is to just purchase a single white led and plug it into the harness which is all I would need to get the led door stripe working again.
Need a recommendation on what type of led to purchase. I ask because the Hella chip that came out of the car is a little more advanced than a single led possibly to work with the dimming option on the mfd, but not sure. Will a basic single white led with 2 wires +/- work in this case? If not any recommendations on what to purchase, I don't mind soldering something if I need to.