Led license plate light issues

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So one side of my license plate light flashes on and off sometimes it did not do this with standard bulbs or I did not notice

Any ideas I swapped bulbs left to right and the problem stays on the drivers side so I don't think it is the bulb
 

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Loose wire on the connector?
 

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So one side of my license plate light flashes on and off sometimes it did not do this with standard bulbs or I did not notice

Any ideas I swapped bulbs left to right and the problem stays on the drivers side so I don't think it is the bulb

Possible cheap/defective. LED. I had the same issue until I switched to Sylvania Zevos
 
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cheap LEDs and is on the way to dying
they are v-led I thought they where a good brand but what is weird is when I move the light to the other side the light works the problem just stays on the drivers side
 

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Take a volt meter to the wires and see if its fluctuating then fix loose wires on back side or trace them to source
 

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Take a volt meter to the wires and see if its fluctuating then fix loose wires on back side or trace them to source

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Does the power/ground stay the same or is it going in/out?
 

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So one side of my license plate light flashes on and off sometimes it did not do this with standard bulbs or I did not notice

Any ideas I swapped bulbs left to right and the problem stays on the drivers side so I don't think it is the bulb
It is because you do not have the right bulbs.
 
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I would def. check the wiring. On my Yukon i had found that both bulbs were not working. After testing with a test light and a DMM i had found that i was getting power to the sockets but they were not coming on. After looking at the wiring ( taking the wire cover and electrical tape off) i had found that the ground wire had a bad splice coming from the one ground wire from the harness connector to the two going to the bulb sockets.
 

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