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Old Oct 23, 2020 | 06:02 PM
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I have a 2003 3500 and I want to put led bulbs in it. I need to know where the flasher is so I can put an electronic one in when I put in the leds.
 
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Old Oct 23, 2020 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Guywithdakota
I have a 2003 3500 and I want to put led bulbs in it. I need to know where the flasher is so I can put an electronic one in when I put in the leds.
Are you referring to adding resistors to make LED bulbs work?
 
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Old Oct 23, 2020 | 11:21 PM
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No I want to put led turn signal bulbs in my truck, so I need to locate the flasher relay so I can replace it with an electronic one so my turn signals don't blink fast.
 
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Old Oct 24, 2020 | 02:28 AM
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Bwahahaha.....someone isn't used to working on modern electronic vehicles lol. No flasher dude, those were gone by 1994ish. Blinkers are controlled by a computer module. You either find LED's that are fully OEM compatible or as @Alex Medeiros mentioned, you add resistors to make them work correctly.
 
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Old Oct 24, 2020 | 02:36 AM
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Bwahahaha.....someone isn't used to working on modern electronic vehicles lol. No flasher dude, those were gone by 1994ish. Blinkers are controlled by a computer module. You either find LED's that are fully OEM compatible or as @Alex Medeiros mentioned, you add resistors to make them work correctly.
Bwahahaha... someone doesn't fact check themselves before posting a stupid comment. My 1999 dakota, for instance, uses a flasher relay. Many cars still use flasher relays, though not very common. Maybe do a little research next time...
 
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Old Oct 24, 2020 | 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Guywithdakota
Bwahahaha... someone doesn't fact check themselves before posting a stupid comment. My 1999 dakota, for instance, uses a flasher relay. Many cars still use flasher relays, though not very common. Maybe do a little research next time...
There is no flasher, it's controlled by the cluster.
As was mentioned, pretty much all modern vehicles don't use a flasher relay. You only hear clicking because the factory installs a specific device that makes the clicking sound because people needed to hear something.

also as was mentioned, use resistors, you'll need to.
 
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Old Oct 24, 2020 | 02:25 PM
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I've seen this said on a few sites. Not sure though, I have a Dakota.

"the dodge ram 1500 turn signal flasher is located on the signal switch."
 
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Old Oct 24, 2020 | 02:34 PM
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Thank you
 
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Old Oct 25, 2020 | 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Guywithdakota
Bwahahaha... someone doesn't fact check themselves before posting a stupid comment. My 1999 dakota, for instance, uses a flasher relay. Many cars still use flasher relays, though not very common. Maybe do a little research next time...
Oh I'm sorry, we were discussing a Ram here, I must've missed when we switched over to Dakotas....
I know I said modern, then you mention a 99 Dakota......makes total sense *shrug*
 
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Old Oct 25, 2020 | 12:23 AM
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Here, since you wanna cry about it lol, straight out the FSM

 
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