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SOLVED 2016 Tacoma TRD Off-Road Headlights Not Working

Discussion in 'FBC Harness Solutions' started by bwanafide, May 14, 2024.

  1. May 14, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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    bwanafide

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    I'm trying to swap out the stock halogen headlight assembly with the OEM led assembly. After some struggles with Sparks Parts I finally received both driver and passenger side headlight assemblies. I purchased the harness to allow for the 4-to-1 connection (with cover for spare wire). I partly installed the driver side, connected the harness, and was getting a bit of a flickering from the light. Then hooked up the passenger side and both lights stopped working. I used a multimeter to confirm I didn't have any blown fuses.

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    Did I wire something incorrectly? Do I have a bad headlight assembly?

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  2. May 14, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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    daveeasa

    daveeasa FBC Harness Solutions

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    Possible the high beam is wrong, you want solid white to solid white and white w black stripe to white w black stripe. Tough for me to tell from the photo with all the dirt.
     
  3. May 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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    I placed the highbeam plug marked with yellow into the yellow female receiver and the low beam plug marked with green into the green female receiver.

    I’ll clean up the cables and take some more detailed pictures in the morning.
     
  4. May 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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    The question is polarity of the high beam connector. I can see by wire color that they are assigned properly but the white vs white w black stripe is easy to get wrong.
     
  5. May 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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    The polarity prompt worked for me! I was able to simply pull out the high beam connector and reseat it with the white stripes aligned. And voila, new OEM LED headlight assembly is functional. Thanks, @daveeasa !
     
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