Tail lights - US to EU spec

[KIVO]

Many tail light swap threads I can find, are about changing non-LED for LED lights, but I'm wondering about changing out my EU tail lights for US spec lights.

Changing the US halogen lights to LED is a no brainer, and do not need to fiddle with additional resistors, as I have LED lights already.

The one thing from which I thought would be pretty easy, might be way more complex than I initially assumed, and that is how to make the single brake/blinker bulb work, in mind we have separate bulbs/wires for each...

Oh yeah, if you wonder why, I prefer the "retro" look of the halogens more than the white EU style ones.

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[KIVO]

The wiring might be more tricky than I thought... The US spec lights do run 4 wires, whereas the EU ones run 5, the big difference of course the combined brake/blinker bulb in the US lights.

Which means I'll have to figure out a way to temporarily interrupt the signal send by the brake wire to that one bulb, whenever I turn on a blinker, and send the turn signal to the same bulb instead...

The one million dollar Q, how to do so?

 

[jimcob]

The wiring might be more tricky than I thought... The US spec lights do run 4 wires, whereas the EU ones run 5, the big difference of course the combined brake/blinker bulb in the US lights.

Which means I'll have to figure out a way to temporarily interrupt the signal send by the brake wire to that one bulb, whenever I turn on a blinker, and send the turn signal to the same bulb instead...

The one million dollar Q, how to do so?

Hi, did you figure out how to do the wiring?

 

[Sublime]

LOL, and here I'd love to switch to the Euro tails.

 

[JP_Oracle]

Just swap over the US tails and then use JSCAN?

Here's a write up they did to convert rear lamps from US to EU spec

http://jscan.net/jeep-wrangler-jl-light-conversion-us-eu-specification/

Edit: I think this is to add EU tails to a US Jeep. But you should still be able to do a similar adaptation using this method for the opposite.

 

[BeeLDub]

Meanwhile, I'd kill for some EU LEDs. The fact the US hasn't made it mandatory rear turn signals be separate from the brakes, and amber, is just stupid...

 

[Maximus1]

Hi folks.

im owning a Jeep Wrangle 4xe, Sahara, 2021. It was produced in US and brought to EU.
The issue is that some regulations here are differ, and for instance i need to change my tail light to europe standart.
So at the end of the day it should be amber.
As i understood i need to add additional wire from front turn signals to rear (new one) and also make some programming in control unit.
So here is a problem - no one in my city can do it
will be very glad to know if someone had such experince and which soft did he use.

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