I have the 2025 Premier, which has mostly LED lighting, but still has some incandescent lighting. It's the highest trim level (Canada) yet strangely the rear turn signal bulbs are still incandescent.
I would assume (but haven't verified) that you can't just swap an LED-aware blinker module in for the 2025. Using resistors is stupid, feeding a signal to make the BIU (if that's where the logic is) think the rear bulbs are drawing a certain amount of current may cause blame issues later on if there are electrical failures.
What about just taking the turn signal power, feeding it into something that would draw little current, so that the system hyperflashes, and then just dividing the blink rate by 2 or 4 or whatever, to get a suitable blink rate, and turning some LED bulbs on/off with the suitable blink rate?
I'm retired and have better things to do than fix the car's shortcomings, and would rather watch other people experiment and pick the best solution and copy that.
Maybe the "divide by 4" idea would wear out a relay 4x as fast, so maybe it's not so smart.
I don't know what Subaru's reason(s) is/are for still using these incandescent bulbs.
I would assume (but haven't verified) that you can't just swap an LED-aware blinker module in for the 2025. Using resistors is stupid, feeding a signal to make the BIU (if that's where the logic is) think the rear bulbs are drawing a certain amount of current may cause blame issues later on if there are electrical failures.
What about just taking the turn signal power, feeding it into something that would draw little current, so that the system hyperflashes, and then just dividing the blink rate by 2 or 4 or whatever, to get a suitable blink rate, and turning some LED bulbs on/off with the suitable blink rate?
I'm retired and have better things to do than fix the car's shortcomings, and would rather watch other people experiment and pick the best solution and copy that.
Maybe the "divide by 4" idea would wear out a relay 4x as fast, so maybe it's not so smart.
I don't know what Subaru's reason(s) is/are for still using these incandescent bulbs.
