Freelander 1 Bad LED's

Put some cheep ebay led bulbs behind the heater controls on my td4 after about 2 months they started flashing like a Christmas tree, ye I no ya get what ya pay for. So decided to get some for for the side lights, and thought pay a bit more for hopefully better ones, £9 from Halfords, NO they lasted 2 weeks before they to started flashing. So is there something specific I should be buying am I buying the wrong thing?

Cheers

illy

are they can bus free

teddywood1 said:

are they can bus free

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I don't no mate it didn't say on the packet just looked on halfords sight and no referance to can bus there for the bulbs, so Is that what I want can bus free.

Quite normal for cheap LEDs to fail in a vehicle. They are fine at 12 volts. However at 14 Volts the life is short.

I agree with nodge68 I would be tempted to not switch the lights on until engine is running and the electric is running at 12.9 volts on my earlier model freelander (2001) I put leds side lights on the car and had a lot of flashing warning lights so now I do not bother

I made some custom, voltage regulated LEDs for my Discovery side lights. This stops them failing completely while improving light output. LEDs are fine for short term lighting solutions like interior lights but anything that needs to be on for long periods with the engine running, needs to be regulated.

It's just a sign that the LED driver is or has over heated. The cheap ones give of a lot of heat and don't have a heat sink.
White LEDs changing to blueish colour when hot is another sign.

Put the correct normal bulbs in as per manufacturer spec. Problem solved.