L ED Interior Light Problem

[Purplehazeffc]

Hey Guys.

I went ahead & got some LED festoon globes to put in the front, side & boot, to change them over to LED.
Easy enough to do. I put them in yesterday arvo when they arrived in the post.
All went well & I actually prefer the white light that the LED's give off.

Now here is my problem. With the door closed, the lights still give of some light. So I got out my multimeter.
With the door open or the light switch pulled out. It gives off 12v. As it should.
Now with the door closed & the switch pushed back in. I get a constant 7v. Hence why there is still some light there.
Has anyone else put in LED's & NOT have this problem? I have googled & googled but can't find anyone else with this problem.

Any hints at what to look for. The normal filament globes don't give any light what-so-ever

Cheers
Pete

[guy 27]

later models had a diode on the system to prevent this happening.

Just splice in a diode on the grey/yellow wire coming up the a pillar on the passenger side.

[Purplehazeffc]

Cheers for the reply.
I had a look at the wires coming up the passenger pillar.
All iv'e got coming up are 3 x Grey, 3 x Red, 2 x Brown, 2 x Red/Yellow

I should also say its a 2001 TS City. The rear lights also have a reading of 7.6v when door is closed

[guy 27]

one of the greys should have a yellow stripe on it.
otherwise you can always put it in just before the front light you should see it there as well. I have done it in both locations but in the a pillar is factory location.

[Purplehazeffc]

I went out & checked again. All 3 Grey wires are completely Grey. No stripe on any of them.
But what you are referring to is the Grey wire going the the lamp holder? Which I can do a continuity test to find the one in the pillar

Also with a bit more Googling. It's just not a Astra problem. Quite a few other car makes do exactly the same thing.
Though there fix is to put a 1k ohm resister across the contacts where the globe clips in.

[guy 27]

Maybe they put the yellow stripe on the later models.
If you pop it on the one going to the front lamp holder that should do they job

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