It was because I had the car running while I was testing the leads to the new tail light to see which wire was brake, which wire was signal, which wire was running, etc and it must have shorted something when I was testing.
the plug on the vland lights wasn’t the right plug so I took the pins out and tested the leads and when I figured out which wires went to where I tested them and they worked perfectly, the sequential leds blinked the running lights were on and when I pressed my brakes they glowed brighter as...