So, On Oct 22 I dropped $750 for led lights and HIDs for my wife's colorado. Upon initial install, one of the relay's for the HID's was bad so we had a delay and Diode Dynamics sent a replacement (via USPS so it took a couple of days) at no charge.
Fast forward to today... I love the Switchback DRL/Turn Signal, Ho-hum on the HID's (we replaced factory fogs with Rigid Industries SAE fogs which are amazing... The tail lights, I have nothing nice to say about the tail lights. We bought 4 HP11 with resistors and today I pulled all for due to 2 being completely dead. 1 flickering and intermittently just not working at all. 1 worked correctly. They have been installed about 3 months and 75% are dead, WTH? I'm sorry, but if I spend $140 on 4 light bulbs, I think they should work a heck of a lot longer than 3 months.
Called Diode Dynamics and their excuse was the prongs are small and probably just not contacting... Prongs are fine on all 3 deads... Also, looked at the resistors and found that one of the wires had completely melted through to the bare wire! Now I have removed all 4 bulbs and resistors and gone back to the factory incandescent bulbs. I will be calling them tomorrow to discuss replacements/refund, and will update if anyone cares... I am annoyed as I replaced every bulb on the vehicle with led or hid from Diode Dynamics thinking I'd never have to touch them again.
Has anyone else had issues with Diode Dynamics? Is this an anomaly or the norm?
Thanks,
Jerod
Fast forward to today... I love the Switchback DRL/Turn Signal, Ho-hum on the HID's (we replaced factory fogs with Rigid Industries SAE fogs which are amazing... The tail lights, I have nothing nice to say about the tail lights. We bought 4 HP11 with resistors and today I pulled all for due to 2 being completely dead. 1 flickering and intermittently just not working at all. 1 worked correctly. They have been installed about 3 months and 75% are dead, WTH? I'm sorry, but if I spend $140 on 4 light bulbs, I think they should work a heck of a lot longer than 3 months.
Called Diode Dynamics and their excuse was the prongs are small and probably just not contacting... Prongs are fine on all 3 deads... Also, looked at the resistors and found that one of the wires had completely melted through to the bare wire! Now I have removed all 4 bulbs and resistors and gone back to the factory incandescent bulbs. I will be calling them tomorrow to discuss replacements/refund, and will update if anyone cares... I am annoyed as I replaced every bulb on the vehicle with led or hid from Diode Dynamics thinking I'd never have to touch them again.
Has anyone else had issues with Diode Dynamics? Is this an anomaly or the norm?
Thanks,
Jerod