Help! This is a real trivial question. I removed the wing from my daughter's 1991 Accord, purchased used but not abused. The wing has the LED stoplights. Now she has no center high stop light. the wires are there, but no power to the known good bulb. I have the service manual, but the color codes don't match the wire that I can see into the light socket. Is this a dealer fix, or is anybody on the list good with electrics, that could help me power up the center stoplight? Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

 

i assume your trying to hook up the middle light to the the new LEDs? the easiest way is to use a voltmete to check for the 12v source...then you just hook that to the LED's and your good. autozone will probably check it if you dont have a voltmeter. will be the safest way unless you know what your doing

 

I could probably help you if I was there looking at it. I am really good with electrical stuff, but not very good over the internet. But what are you going to do with that wing you took off? And is all the hardware good and stuff?

 

Check out the wires that went to the LED Bar and just run them on up to the center stop light. Simple enough.

 

i misunderstood the post the first time whoops....if the back tail light is a socket...then the wire that is running to the middle of the socket is the positive wire...the wire leading to the side of the socket is the ground. thats how house light sockets work...and im assuming its a socket much like that.

 

First of all, guys, thanks to all for responding . Glad to know there's people interested in this kind of problem. Usually we all go for the motor, suspension, brakes, etc. Anyway, I'll try to rrmemgber all the points you all made:
First the wing was tip top. My dau just didnt' like it, so I took it off. When she said she didnt' like it, it seemed to me I could take off the wing, strip out the led's, make a bracket, and make a high tech center flasher for my other car a Z06 Vette I open track regularly.
I prolly could route a wire from the little sidetap, with the 3amp fuse, that Honda put in for the wing light and run it to the socket, but I want to use the stock wire harness which runs from the right side brake light plug. The big service manual schematic shows a green/yellow going to the light, but the light has a green/blue.
There is a harness running to the center light, with the green/yellow, but no power to the socket. There is a perfectly good bulb just sitting there, doing nothing. I can;'t discoiver where they left the circuit open when they installed the wing stoplight.
I opened up the plug at the right brakelight, found the green yellow, and it has a pin to it, but I get unusual voltage rreading on the digital voltmeter. Is that from the failure sensor in the plug(the schematic says that is where the failure senor is located.
Oh, I am new to this list and just discovered all you guys replies sitting right down there.
Well, I am going to try sticking a pin into the wire use that for a conductor, and checking voltage again. Thanks again for the ideas.

 

I recall the high mount brake was not used when the OEM spoiler was factory/dealer installed. Therefore it does sound like a wiring issue.

 

I don't have my helms here in front of me, but I believe that when the dealer installs the rear spoiler, they disconnect the center brake light. I want to say the plug is on the drivers side of the trunk around the edge. There is a rubber grommet you pull out, I'll check tomorrow and let you know for sure if I can.

 

Yeah, the wiring is all intact. I traced the wire grn/yel from the right hand brakelight thru a "Y" of the harness. I untaped the "Y" to see if the grn/yel did in fact emerge there, and it does. What I can't really see without removing the package tray, MAJOR PITA, is where it changes from grn/yel to grn/ltblu. Next I'll look around the rim of the trunk to see if there is a "rubber grommet where wiring changes.

 

Well, I tried to solve the wiring problem by replacing the clacking right side half shaft. No dice. Got a few scraped knuckles, head bumps, but still no center stop light! There's a tap with fuseholder from the left trunklid brakelight for the wing stop light, but it has different colors than what the service manual says. Still searching. sigh.

 

Thanks all. I found the "open" They put a different failure sensor in the cars with wing brake lights. They assemble the car as all other stockers, but they leave the pin out of the failure sensor which would power the center stop light. Looked at failure sensor at dealer with old one opened up, and there was the missing pin. 31 bucks. Cheap safety project.
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