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So, just a few minutes ago, I received a call from my family telling me that my taillights are flashing out of control and won't stop. Oh joy, what a fun feeling being at worked knowing my battery is being drained to all hell. My family doesn't know anything about cars, so I certainly am not going to ask them to disconnect the battery, nor do I trust that it could be done correctly.
A few months ago, I go to start up my car, and it was almost completely dead. There was only a 10 minutes max of battery life left for some accessories, and it quickly got worse as time went on, and then it completely died. As the car kept draining battery life, the taillights went flashing like crazy, so this is very ironic that it's doing this now as well. Now, at first, I thought my battery dead at that time because of a few prior car shows that I kept my LED's activated on the car using battery power. I thought that maybe there was too much drain for the battery to handle, even though it wasn't for crazy amounts of time, nor was it more than a few shows. So, now I'm thinking it was these taillights that have been draining my battery when I'm not home and I never knew it. The car gets driven on the weekends only, but it starts up fine and the taillights were perfect while the car is running. So, I doubt there is any faulty wiring that I did when I installed it. I don't know why the lights would be flashing out of control like this.
Anyone have any idea as to why the taillights would be flashing like crazy when the car is off and locked??
The only thing I can think of is that the show mode wire (that is disconnected and tied up is being activated somehow. Am I wrong for thinking that the purple "show mode" wire could be activated if it's touching any metal of some sort? I really tried to make sure it couldn't contact any metal for any reason so this type of situation couldn't occur. Ugh, this is frustrating.
Update: So, after starting this thread, we now have multiple people experiencing the same problem. I have now started a list that we will keep adding to with every member who has experienced the same problem, which is a dead battery after installation of these taillights (but you must as close to certain as possible that the taillights are to blame). If you have experienced the same thing, please add your name to the list by copying and pasting the list and adding your name, then posting it, and I'll update this first post with you included.
List of individuals with inoperable batteries due to Technistalgia taillight installation:
1.) TCAT
2.) Christianmotox
3.) Tom D
4.) KARLOR
5.) SSMOKN
6.) FOXCARLO
7.) ZL600 FK
8.) Ekow
9.) freefallin2005
10.) Cmlloveless
11.) Camaroowner77
12.) Frankbarb
13.) Midniteoiler
14.) bpoole38
15.) SSMOKN
16.) The 2010 Sin
17.) Cybercoaster
18.) a_tucker1979
19.) dmiotti
20.) SSaint
21.) Wantconvertible
22.) OKCwhiteKnight
23.) Drakin
23.) Camarostar2010
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