Rear blinker doesn't work with headlights on after tail lamp replacement.

Honestly if you're not real comfortable with electrical work, just take it to the dealer for a "check and advise". Sucks to spend the money, but it's not worth banging your head against a wall on a 2 year old truck.

 

Yeah that's 100% the plan if it ends up being something outside my area of comfort

 

Alright I'll mess with it this weekend and see what happens, wish me luck lol

 

Come on guys...his blinker fluid is clearly low.

 

Post up a location to see if TW member is close by who can assist.

You want to make sure you have a stock harness and bulbs in there before you take it to a dealer. If they find funky eBay LEDs you can be hit with "none Toyota parts, $150 diagnostic fee". Lots of eBay crap, so they need to spend time to diagnose and return to stock. The common ground point, so if everything else is good it's a bad socket. Just odd.

There is a tail light relay that powers up the green wire. White/Black provides ground.

This sounds like the Combination Socket has a connection issue.

 

Turn the truck on , headlights on and blinker on . Have the bulb in the socket and push on the bulb and turn , push wires into bulb socket , push connections together and see if anything makes the bulb blink .

 

That's my kind of troubleshooting, push and prod see if it works

 

I'll try and decipher this over the weekend lol, I'm in Charleston, SC if anyone wants a couple beers

 

Well shit, drive a few hours south and I can look at your lights and get you a nice tune!

 

This sounds like the directional bulb is searching for a ground. As ktbell444 suggested, us a multi meter to check that the black/white wires in the sockets on that side have good grounds.

All sorts of weird things happen when a circuit loses a ground.

Also make sure that the bulbs are the correct type. If you've already done that, a lost ground is the most likely suspect.

 

Try disconnecting your trailer hitch harness. You might have messed that up backing into the wall and it's shorting from there.

 

Savannah or Jacksonville? I would love to get this thing tuned it's got a serious case of gen 3 transmission ha

 

Sounds like I need top get my hands on a multimeter

 

First I've heard that so I'll definitely give it a shot

 

This is a long shot. Check the pins on the connector. One may be bent. I remember a post here last week about someone whose front window won’t open after installing a remote start. It was a bent pin on the connector after all. Hope this helps.

 

Does it blink once and then stop? If so, you have an overload condition on the blinker circuit. I ran into this when converting to LED and all the Meso lights. In my case, I needed to use a smaller ballast resistor.

 

It's unlikely to be a short, more likely an open ground.

 

Doesn't blink at all, and bulbs are OEM nothing fancy going on there.