Message to all RECON tail light owners

[Keller]

As a public service to all RECON owners I wanted to share my findings.

As a Canadian Trail Boss owner my truck sees salted roads in the winter and I'm thinking that has something to do with the issues I was having.

I have had issues with both RECON tail lights making the truck throw a "Rear Indicator Failure" warning on the DIC. At first it was intermittent, but my right tail light has been fast flashing and throwing an error steady for about a month now. I spoke to RECON and they sent a new resistor kit as they figured that was the problem.

The resistor kits arrived today and low and behold I found the problem. The small 3 pin connector for the tail lights (all part of the RECON harness) was corroded so bad that it pulled the male pin right out of the connector.

Had to splice and use gel filled butt connectors to connect things back together. It wasn't the resistors after all.

My advice, inspect your connectors and unclip them carefully, be prepared to have the same thing happen cause there was no way my clip was going back together and I would have been without a right turn signal. If you get yours apart and it's still intact, hit it with some dielectric grease to keep the corrosion at bay.

My tail lights were only 6 months old.

Cheers guys.

 

[GETGONE]

They charge a grand for those lights and don't even use weather pack connectors?????

 

[Keller]

They've had such a history of failed resistors that they use a quick connector to make for easier resistor pack changes.

Solve one problem, create another.

Resistor pack.

 

[scotman623]

I have had my recon tail lights since last Summer, I have been getting a left turn signal code for the last 4-5 weeks.. Fast blinking, very annoying.. I live in upstate NY, lots of salt and snow around here too… Guess I will look into your findings and see if this is my issue too… Not happy about having issues with them already for the price of them..

 

[That21TrailBossguy]

Good to know in case something like this happens. Thanks

 

[bohcar80]

I ran into issues with rear left turn signal failure message in DIC and hyper flash. Assemblies will be 3 years old in November this year 2025. Checked plug, it was corroded but not near as bad as the pic in previous post. Cleaned with electronic connection cleaner and scrubbed and scraped (thoroughly). Didn’t fix. Cut out plug to install weather proof heat shrink in their place. Didn’t fix. Past warranty and so far it seems Recon doesn’t really want to help resolve. Still in communications with them though. I’ll see what I can figure out in the next few days and repost. I live in an area with what I would call mostly mild winters, regardless that connection is a joke.

 

[Keller]

They sent me new resistor packs, no questions asked. I hope they would do the same for you. I would think after the connectors, the resistors would be the next point of failure.

 

[bohcar80]

They sent me new resistor packs, no questions asked. I hope they would do the same for you. I would think after the connectors, the resistors would be the next point of failure.

Thanks, still in talks with them. Were you out of warranty too?

 

[Keller]

Recon warranty is a laughable 90 days, so at 6 months they were indeed out of warranty.

 

[bohcar80]

Recon warranty is a laughable 90 days, so at 6 months they were indeed out of warranty.

I like the Recons pretty good, I didn’t give full price for them. There was a sale and I had some credit card reward money. Otherwise, probably wouldn’t have purchased them. Still got my stocks with tinted covers, have a feeling they might end up back on my truck before too long. If this happens I will most definitely be redoing the 3M tape job that came on the tinted covers,
it was horrible

 

[5.3TB]

I went with the Sanoeer tails. I think they look a whole lot better than the recons and come with factory style connectors that were well sealed. Best part is they were 1/3 the price.

 

[bohcar80]

I went with the Sanoeer tails. I think they look a whole lot better than the recons and come with factory style connectors that were well sealed. Best part is they were 1/3 the price.

 

[bohcar80]

I’ve seen those, might look into them as replacements for these Recons