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Silverado halogen to LED stop light swap

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No your taillight harness will not work with LEDs. It has to do with the resistance (Ohms) of the bulbs. The halogens have much higher resistance than LEDs, this can result in "hyper flash" or the LEDs may not function at all. I think I saw a post on here about changing the wiring harness or adding resistors in the taillight circuits but this is not a plug and play mod.

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I believe the 2023 chevy/gmc use the stop light for rear turn signals, as well, unless I am mistaken.

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On Ebay there's harnesses to use factory LED tail lights with originally halogen equipped trucks. LINK

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30 minutes ago, GETGONE said:

On Ebay there's harnesses to use factory LED tail lights with originally halogen equipped trucks. LINK

$100 for the harness, and what, $1500 for the uplevel LED tails, if they are even available. That’s an expensive upgrade 

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Factory LED lights are $600 or less used. I heard someone on another forum sold their OEM LED lights for like $350 for the pair.

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There's plenty of aftermarket LED taillights to replace OEM halogens on ebay as well.

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4 hours ago, Adolfo Alonso said:

Thanks Guys.

@GETGONE do you think this harness would fit the 2023 model?

I don't believe the plugs changed, but I would verify. I know the electrical architecture changed, but not sure about the connectors at the rear.

 

Actually per the Gen5DIY webpage it works for 22 refresh and 23 trucks.

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Call me crazy, but I prefer halogen bulbs. If your halogen tail light burns out it’s less than $10 to fix. If your LED tail light somehow goes out you’re replacing the whole taillight. LEDs fail less than halogen but they still sometimes fail. 

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2x and most of the aftermarket stuff is junk. How many vehicles have you been behind with dim or partially burnt out LED conversions. 

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I am pleased with my OEM LED lights so far on both vehicles. 
 

Also had good luck with good quality halogen replacement LED bulbs. 
 

It does seem like every Jeep around here has 2/3 working tail lights though. 

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On 3/30/2023 at 5:18 PM, GETGONE said:

I don't believe the plugs changed, but I would verify. I know the electrical architecture changed, but not sure about the connectors at the rear.

 

Actually per the Gen5DIY webpage it works for 22 refresh and 23 trucks.

Gen5DIY has a wiring harness for this swap on sale right now.

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