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Headlight Wiring Burnt

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by Gruber1922, Dec 16, 2019.

  1. Dec 16, 2019 at 4:01 PM
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    Gruber1922

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    So I have a set of Tacomabeast headlights (aka Spyder) and noticed my passenger side headlamp burnt out. I figured it was the bulb.I open it up and find this. Looks like the positive wiring got so hot it caused to connector to crack. Any ideas how to fix this? I sent Tacomabeast a warranty claim but I’m seeing if I can fix it sooner.
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  2. Dec 16, 2019 at 8:32 PM
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    My advice would be to install everything back to stock to prevent a fire.
    :bananadead:
     
  3. Dec 16, 2019 at 8:47 PM
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    Already sold my oem headlights unfortunately
     
  4. Dec 16, 2019 at 8:52 PM
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    Well you sold yours I'm sure others are selling theirs also.

    What kinds of lights are those?

    Those are large Diodes right? And one of then burned in two.
     
  5. Dec 16, 2019 at 8:57 PM
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    They are from Tacomabeast which is just Spyder brand. I’m planning on a retrofit soon but for now I need to fix this lol
     
  6. Dec 16, 2019 at 9:01 PM
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    Ether a bad ground out the bulbs are to high wattage pulling to much current.
    Or you rubbed through a wire.
    Can you unplug that hid crap and put your regular wiring to a regular bulb inside those housings?
     
  7. Dec 16, 2019 at 9:29 PM
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    Those are "regular" bulbs, not HID. Looks like it's rigged to not turn off, Lows with High input type, diode went crispy...
     
  8. Dec 17, 2019 at 6:14 AM
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    Yep, looks like a "2 for 1" deal. There are safer ways to accomplish both on at the same time.
     
  9. Dec 17, 2019 at 6:45 AM
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    Yup these were regular old halogen bulbs lol. Had them for about 7 months without any issue. Guess I’ll just wait for the warranty claim
     
  10. Dec 17, 2019 at 6:49 AM
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    check your fusebox probably blew out the headlight fuse too
     
  11. Dec 18, 2019 at 8:36 AM
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    Looks to me like those are some kind of 2-bulb headlights that are rigged to turn on ONE bulb on LOW and BOTH bulbs on HIGH.
    The solution to this is actually pretty simple;
    LOSE THE DIODES. Wire the low beam wire to the low beam bulb, and wire the high beam wire to the high beam bulb.

    This is how you do it;
    BLUE wire is HIGH.
    RED wire is LOW.

    Cut the YELLOW wire off both of the diodes.
    Connect the BULB SIDE of the YELLOW wire to the RED wire on the other side of the broken diode.

    In other words, the RED wire from the truck will run to the YELLOW wire of the bulb that **IS VISIBLE IN THE PICTURES**.
    The BLUE wire will run to the bulb that is NOT visible.
    There will be NO DIODES.
     
  12. Dec 18, 2019 at 9:43 AM
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    awesome, I’ll try this but I’m still waiting on what the warranty claim says. Thanks
     
  13. Dec 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM
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    Sounds like you found the answer! I'm just curious why there are diodes in there in the first place?
     
  14. Dec 18, 2019 at 12:14 PM
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  15. Dec 18, 2019 at 12:25 PM
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    Chopped up a perfectly good factory harness, well that almost burned your truck down.
     
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  16. Dec 18, 2019 at 12:45 PM
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    Looks like too many connections caused too much resistance which caused too much heat. Lucky you didn't get a fire there. Worse yet, your factory wiring harness is now compromised. No matter what you do going forward, I'd be soldering all connections prior to shrink wrap.
     
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    Old post I know , this just happened to me too … what was your solution?
     
  18. Aug 30, 2021 at 4:01 PM
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    I contacted tacomabeast and they sent me a new harness
     

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