Burnt-out kickplates

[Goldsmith]

Hello everyone, last winter my illuminated kickplates started smoking and the lights Burnt-out. Do you believe it's a fuse or do I need to replace them? Has anyone else had this problem?

[Larz]

Welcome to NOCO.
I have not heard of kick plates smoking. There are no "lights" in the kick plates. It's a one-piece unit with a circuit board that contains LED gizmos that are soldered into the board. Did you buy the car new? I can only imagine that a previous owner messed with either the capacity of the fuse controlling them or maybe the actual wiring that caused too much power to go through the board effectively burning it. The only option is to buy new kick plates. You cannot repair or replace individual pieces ion the board if it is fried.
1) double check the fuse location and see if someone placed a 20a fuse where there should have been a 5a, etc before even considering replacements
2) look for used kick plates on Ebay or similar sight as new ones from the dealer are likely a small fortune.

I fund a post at another forum that explains locating the fuse, type of fuse, etc and asco contains a picture of the 5a glass fuse:
http://www.myg37.com/forums/audio-video ... -fuse.html

[Goldsmith]

Thank you I will check the fuse, but I'm guessing the circuit board fried out. Since the smoke was coming from the kickplates themselves. It happened at different times,I think maybe the weather played a part, it was below freezing and snow

[Debonair]

Crazy. Sounds moisture related to me, and scary. But I bet they can be rebuilt with some custom LEDs.

[M37xfan]

I have the illuminated kick plates and this past winter we had snow, rain, and below freezing temperatures. So far no issues with the kick plates.