Rear taillight brake lamp failure sensors

[jmorrnsx]

Hello was just wondering if anyone has ever tried these rear brake lamp fill your sensors shown in the picture. The part number is match what is listed in the Acura parts Finder. The only difference is they are different colours than the original ones. Curious to know as I need to replace mine and I’m not sure if these ones on eBay are going to work.
Thank you,
J. Morrison

 

[drew]

Your taillights should have LED lamps at this point in time. It is 20ms faster, generate less heat (less damage to housings), and brighter.

And if one installs LEDs the sensor needs to be bypassed.

 

[jmorrnsx]

Your taillights should have LED lamps at this point in time. It is 20ms faster, generate less heat (less damage to housings), and brighter.

And if one installs LEDs the sensor needs to be bypassed.

Thank you for the suggestion. But I am keeping this car stock.

 

[Wild Turkey]

To each their own for garage queens and parades, but it's now very difficult to make a case for driving with incandescent brake bulbs on public roads. It just doesn't make sense to delay the warning given to drivers following you.

This has been discussed at length here, complete with links to graphs of illumination times, side by side videos of the bulb operation, and how to bypass the bulb-out indicator in a completely reversible way with no damage to the stock wiring, in case the car retires to be a museum specimen:

Thread 'Can we justify not upgrading to LED brake light bulbs any more?'

5 January 2023

Question: Is it reasonable not to upgrade the stock brake bulbs to LED's any more???

Update from this thread 2 years ago since the technology has really become easy, cheap, and mainstream:

How good are LED replacement brake lamp and signal lamp bulbs these days?

Bob's post got me thinking... http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showthread.php/216155-What-brake-lamp-bulb-part-is-needed How good are the LED replacement bulbs these days? I tried some maybe >5yrs ago and they were terrible. Light output was low and quite directional so it didn't really "fill"...

www.nsxprime.com

I share the love of @DRIFTER for the look of incandescent running and brake lights, but here's a new thread to keep the other thread on its headlights topic and discuss brake light options here. (The warm look of incandescents is the reason I spend a whole day...

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Back to the OP question however, I'm perplexed. If you have the correct part #'s, they should work, provided they're not counterfeit parts. (This is the dilemma with ebay parts.) The good news is that it's easy to check. Simply install them along with 4 good bulbs to see if the bulb-out indicator remains off. Then remove the 4 bulbs, one at a time, to ensure that the sensor is tripped with removal of any 1 bulb. I am surprised that both of your bulb-out indicators failed. Each contains just a couple of reed switches, which are pretty reliable. For both modules to go at the same time is surprising. Any chance a previous owner bypassed them?