Taillight options Denali

[Fifty]

well, my drivers side tail light (brakes only) went out.

Seems folks are saying there is a national back order and it’s $435 for the single light....


I’m not looking for smoked, nor anything crazy looking.

Who is making a quality aftermarket light that doesn’t look all alteza?

 

[Dave Legacy]

You can just fix yours. Mine is having the same issue, but only when it’s hot out. It’s easy to fix if you’re even a little handy with a soldering iron. There’s two small points in the circuitry that very predictably fail, so you can open just that portion of the housing.

Look it up - it’s super common.

 

[Fifty]

IS the fix on youtube or this forum?

 

[Fifty]

Founda bunch of vids for the "cut a hole" option. Tryng to find a guide for opening the tail light

 

[Dave Legacy]

You’d have to cut the whole housing open. Just my opinion, but a lot more opportunity for moisture intrusion if you go that route. Doesn’t seem necessary if only the two known points are what fail.

 

[Fifty]

I opened the one spot. It was broken in two spots there.

Had a hard time getting the solder to stick to the shiny metal tabs.

Put it back together and it worked... kind of. There Cleary is a break in the other half as well because the center part of the brake light still doesn’t work.

I’ll have to take it apart again later.

Wife had me order the protuning lab lights as she doesn’t want to be chasing this problem on the other side when they brake as well.

 

[Dave Legacy]

I’ve seen some of the aftermarket taillights on other trucks around town and they look pretty good. Seems like a decent option to me. Which color/finish did you go with?

 

[Fifty]

The gloss black. The others seemed to have the reverse light reflector too... too... bright.

But i also wanted to make sure the back ground was red still.

I wonder if I should swap the reverse bulb for an led while I’m doing the swap.

It’s a 921 bulb equivelant?

 

[Akinshake]

I had mine fixed, but I have a brand new oem set I received from the dealer if you are wanting oem. Pm if interested.

 

[Fifty]

I had mine fixed, but I have a brand new oem set I received from the dealer if you are wanting oem. Pm if interested.

Sorry, if I hadn’t already ordered and installed the protuning lab ones...

 

[Akinshake]

Sorry, if I hadn’t already ordered and installed the protuning lab ones...

No worries. If I had to buy new lights, I’d probably go aftermarket. Maybe even blacked out esky lights.

 

[DavesLEDrepair]

Sorry, if I hadn’t already ordered and installed the protuning lab ones...

If you still have your broken one I would be interested in it for one I could fix and switch out. Let me know if you would be interested in getting rid of it.

 

[DavesLEDrepair]

Sorry, if I hadn’t already ordered and installed the protuning lab ones...

If be interested in your old ones if you still have them ? Let me know.

 

[kiboater]

There is a guy on ebay who fixes these. $130 including the return freight. Says he turns them around in 24 hours. https://ebay.us/oGGHGe

He says he has repaired 700 of these and guarantees his repair for life. An of course they are on national backorder. Gm will tell you they do not have a problem with these.

 

[kurtibm]

For repair locally, look on car-part.com under the 'GMC', 'Denali' and 'taillight'. Many of the parts yards repair them, as I would expect the guys who do the older dash 'stepper motors' would morph over to this repair.

 

[J B pdt]

Sorry, if I hadn’t already ordered and installed the protuning lab ones...

Do you have a picture with the Protuning taillights on the vehicle? I just backed into something and broke on of mine, so I'm thinking I'll go with aftermarket lights due to cost.

 

[Fifty]

I'm on Instagram as redbeardfifty. There are pics of the truck on there. I’m trying to figure out how to link it. This seems like it: https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=mbdaeybwwdkq&utm_content=3k0altv

 

[Dave Legacy]

My other taillight caught up with the other I was having intermittent issues with, so I couldn’t not have primary brake lights. Gathered up some soldering tools last night and fixed one.

Here’s a look at the part that breaks:

Perhaps this is useful for someone interested in repairing their own. I’ll spare you the repair - I don’t have soldering experience and it’s apparent in my final product.

 

[DavesLEDrepair]

Do you still have your old non working set? I might be interested in them if you do?

 

[kurtibm]

I have a pair of REPAIRED Denali tail lights on which I have repaired the factory shortcoming and have given up trying to adapt my Tahoe to accept. Perfect lenses.
Would sell the pair for $550 + UPS. Otherwise, I guess to eBay they go.