Do we have a canbus system? o.O Options

[rentaspace]

Well, I am not quite sure....
In my experiences with my LEDs EVERY time I have bought non Cbus LEDs they have started flickering and flashing after a few months, some even straight away....
About 2 months ago I decided to just check out the Cbus versions of the same LEDs and to my surprise not one has started flashing yet...


So this leads to my question, is it remotely possible that the 6th Gen Celica (Or maybe even the ADM version) has a canbus system? or have I just had a statistical anomaly lol

[travisxcore]

I've never fried any LEDs and I don't have any flickering ones at all. Honestly LEDs shouldn't even be getting hot. They don't draw nearly enough power to be doing that. That's why if you put them in some cars that do bulb diagnostics (cbus) it'll tell you that bulb is out.

Think of it like this. If you throw a 35w bulb in 65w socket is it gonna pull 65w? No it'll pull 35 watts. 35w HIDs are plugged into 55w/65w sockets and they still only draw 35w. Now maybe if your car was throwing out too much amperage somehow or youre getting a really dirty power flow but that shouldn't be an issue cause you have fuses and the battery helps keep it a stable 12v system.

I think youre just overthinking it. If we had a cbus system for our lights wed have an error code for a bulb out. Cbus systems for lights just measure the power draw to the lights. If its not at the wattage specified, it sends the message "bulb out". That's why you have to get special ones for cars like that so they trick the car into thinking hey this bulb is drawing that amount of wattage. Putting bulbs with extra resistors and stuff like that in our car is a waste of money and power cause ours doesn't care as long as it doesn't exceed the fuse

I think you should be looking into your wiring (to make sure you don't have decaying wires causing dirty power flow) or the quality of the LEDs you bought.

This post has been edited by travisxcore: Aug 11, 2013 - 8:22 AM