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I tried replacing my turn signal/running lights with LED's
Careful, this was probably a very bad move. Almost all of them on the market are unsafe junk. There are no legitimate/safe/effective ones available for the front park/turn lights, and the one and only item that works safely and effectively in
some brake/tail lights is
this one. To make them work correctly you'll need a non-load-sensitive flasher (that is
this one).
Not only can the (many, many, many) brands and types of unsafe junk cause the kinds of electrical backfeed weirdness you experienced, but they don't actually work correctly/safely in terms of providing the right amounts of light through the right range of angles, and the right ratio between bright and dim modes, and their output drops off severely with prolonged use, etc.
In the coming years we will see a growing number of good (safe, effective) LED retrofits, but we're only just at the beginning of that timeframe right now, even though the fast-buck artists have been bringing in the trash from China for years.
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