Doing research on some LED upgrades I found many posts about the Light Out indicator.

Some have gone great lengths to keep the light off. From adding resistors or buying more expensive LEDs with the resistors built in to going old school and covering it with black tape or removing the light behind the indicator itself.

No matter which direction, however, you are bypassing that system. Even the more expensive LEDs that say "Can Bus Error Free" are still bypassing it so if that LED ever does blow, you won’t know it unless you see it out.

(Essentially, the bulb out system sees the resistor, not the LED, so if the LED goes, the resistor remains active, not allowing the detection of the burnt LED. Now if the resistor blows, it will turn the light out indicator on, but the resistor can fry and the bulb still be lit. Basically you now have a Load resistor out instead of a light out indicator)

ANYWAY, LEDs should last 10X longer than the bulbs they replace so most are fine with this but before moving on I wanted it to be clear that regardless of using the resistor method or the black tape method, the result is still the same. You are bypassing that system.

Wish I could tell you how to make the system work properly with LEDs, but I cannot.

Instead I am doing the next best thing, showing you how to disable the system in a way MUCH cheaper than buying resistors or spending more for the ones with the resistors built in (and safer due to heat of the bypass load resistors), plus just a bit classier / less noticeable than the black tape method...

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First take the Driver Side lower trim panel off…. I believe in not re-inventing the wheel so rather than me provide those instructions, just follow the "sticky key instructions" up through Step 8….

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...key-fix_v2.pdf

You will now have full access to the light switch / Illumination control module on the left side of the panel. On this module you should have 4 connectors.

To the far left (closest to the driver door) you will see the first connector has 3 wires in it, two of which are fairly large wires.

The NEXT wire bundle directly to the RIGHT of that set is the bundle you will want to unwrap the tape from.

SO to recap, if counting from left to right, it is the second wire bundle, if counting from right (passenger door) to the left, it is the 3rd bundle connected to the light switch / module.

Unwrap that wire set back until you have access to identify wire colors.

Look for the wire that is Brown w/ Black Stripe. Cut it, tape it off. DONE




Yep, it’s that easy! Find the Brown with Black stripe wire coming from the second cable set from the light switch, cut it, tape it off and put everything back together. NO MORE LIGHT OUT INDICATOR!


That wire supplies a grounded output to the instrument cluster when it detects a light is out. No connection and your instrument cluster never knows any lights are out.