High Beam Indicator not working after LED headlight upgrade

I just upgraded my headlights with a set from Amazon (New Brights LED Headlight Conversion Kit - 80W 6400LM Cree LED).

The low and high beams work fine on the headlights themselves, but the high beam indicator on the "combination meter" on the dash does not work anymore.

I have looked over the FSM wiring manual but can't figure out what is going on that is actually causing the issue.

I haven't taken a multimeter to the "LG" (light green) Cowl wire (pin #9) to see if it is too low of a voltage or what yet.

Anyone know what's going on for real? I have read other threads like the "Highbeam dash light not working" but it didn't seem like anyone had an answer other than "ignore it" and "I don't mind not having the blue light on the dash".

 

I had this problem with my retrofit. There is an issue that makes it not work because the harness only plugged into one of the h4 factory plugs and the other was blank. It looks like yours plugs into both right? On mine I had to get a separate little box that plugged into the blank plug to make it work in the dash. So Idk what your issue may be..

 

I have a feeling that the LED Driver unit is not putting enough load on the high beam circuit to cause the light green cowl wire to be the correct voltage to illuminate the blue dash light.

The LED driver unit does plug into all three spades on the OEM headlight male connector (Otherwise, it wouldn't know when to turn on the second LED for the high beam).

I just spliced together the wiring diagram specific to my truck (Auto, 5VZ, Cruise, No DRL, 2-4 selector shifter) and removed the cruft for other trucks (DRL, 4cyl, J-stick).
Here's a small version which you can click on for the HUGE version.

 

Today, I noticed that the LED headlights also prevent the truck from automatically shutting off the headlights (when left on) when a door opens.

Now I'm annoyed. I do not want to put load resisters all over the truck to waste power.

 

I had to get something like this after I upgraded to HIDs in order to get my high beam indicator to work again. Just plug it in the passenger H4 connector and good to go.

 

Yeah that's what I got! But he's got the led kit, which plugs into both connectors. Probly an amperage/voltage issue or some bullshit. OP I would suggest posting your question in this thread and see if anyone else has had the same problem..
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lighting/304598-lifetime-led-headlights-29.html

 

Did you ever get any resolution on this issue? I just installed the Philips H412953BWX2 LEDs in my 2003 tacoma. They work great but the high beam indicator light doesn't work now nor do the lights auto shut off anymore when you get out of the truck. I put the original halogen light back in the passenger side and the high beam indicator light works. So must be a resistance thing.

 

No, I returned the lights. In my opinion, they were unsafe and hazerderus to use on or off-road. People were flashing me thinking my brights were on, but in my perception the width of the thrown beam was so narrow I could barely see anything that wasn't straight in front of me. Hopefully your Philips are better - it has been a year, so I wouldn't be surprised if aftermarket LED headlights are decent now.

 

HI Jason: thanks for the reply. Will continue to search out a fix. Will try some resistors. But these new philips led lights are nice. have the same pattern as the Piaa xtreme white halogens that I had in before with nice cutoff. Either they put out more light or its a much whiter light (6000K) and can see better especially off to the side. Got flashed a couple of times but them I realized I had them on high beam. No problem with low beams. Will post when I get a fix for the high beam indicator light.

 

The high beam indicator gets power through the headlight. The LED lights won't complete the circuit. You would have to add a small light bulb or resistor between the red/white and red/green left headlight wires or red/blue and red/green right headlight wires. I have no idea what size resistor you would have to use. I did the wiring upgrade with relays on mine. The indicator light gets it's power through the relay coil instead of the headlights now. It works, but is dimmer than it was. I didn't run into this problem when I upgraded the wiring on my old Dodge truck because the headlights weren't needed to complete the circuit.

 

Get the module mentioned above your post.

 

Well, I finally got back to this on my 2003 tacoma. I bought one H4 Led load resistor from superbrightleds and installed it inline on the passenger side headlight. Seemed to do the trick. The high beam indicator works again along with the lights automatically turning off if you take the key out or close the door with the lights on.

 

LEDs use both plugs so that module wouldn't work as it's not "in-line" (unless you see one that I don't from that link)

@zoblo did you just use one of these or had to get the pair? I see you said "one" but want to make sure. and also how it's holding up?

 

I have retrofits that don't show the high beam indicator light when my high beams are but it's pretty easy to tell. If the headlight switch is flipped forward your high beams are on if it is in the original spot they're not. Plus oncoming driver's will let you know!

 

Frizzman: I just needed one and put in on the passenger side. when you go to superbrightleds webpage look under motorcycles for the h4 led load resistor then only a quantity of one shows up. When you look for the h4 led load resistor under vehicles it comes up with a quantity of 2. It's working great so far.

 

werd! I'm ordering bulbs anyway so just going to tack this on

 

Since this thread is active, I recently installed a retrofit from LSC15 (love these lights) and I have the non-high beam indicator issue. Will this module fix it?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/H4-HID-Bi-xenon-Error-Warning-Canceller-Leakage-Module/290589078847

 

it should. believe it was mentioned in another thread as well. since the HID uses just the driver side something needs to fill the passenger side to tell the ECM that it's working.

 

@MindFork @frizzman
I have that module and my high beam indicator still doesn't work with my HID retrofit. I tried everything. Homemade resistors in the passenger side plug, ebay module, even replaced the high beam indicator bulb in the cluster. I've given up.
Wierdest part is when I first did the retro the indicator worked but now it doesn't work at all.

 

@Snowman Well darn. I guess I'll have to live without the indicator.