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Old Apr 10, 2006 | 11:33 PM
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Question about parkinglight & turn signal

An idea occured to me earlier today. But wasnt sure if it would work. I should of thought about it when I had my bumper off while I installed HIDs.

Anyway, would it be possible to swap the parking light socket in place of the turn signal? The turn signal would be in the orange square piece. Would that work or no because the sockets are a different fit or size.
Old Apr 11, 2006 | 12:38 AM
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I think theres a how-to on this...
Old Apr 11, 2006 | 01:12 AM
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i didn't swap the sockets...i'm pretty sure its not possible. I cut the wires and swapped them. Looks mean with the parking lights on. However, sometimes the turn signal blinks faster than normal.
Old Apr 11, 2006 | 01:49 AM
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i didn't swap the sockets...i'm pretty sure its not possible. I cut the wires and swapped them. Looks mean with the parking lights on. However, sometimes the turn signal blinks faster than normal.
I believe that is because the wire is shorter...you should post a pic of how yours looks...
Old Apr 11, 2006 | 02:22 AM
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I believe that is because the wire is shorter...you should post a pic of how yours looks...
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i was wondering about this myself and wondered how it looked....post pics!
Old Apr 11, 2006 | 03:08 AM
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i didn't swap the sockets...i'm pretty sure its not possible. I cut the wires and swapped them. Looks mean with the parking lights on. However, sometimes the turn signal blinks faster than normal.
I'll probably have time today and take off the bumper and look into it.

How I thought about this was because my car was facing a reflection mirror window or soemthing. I had the signals on and and it looked almost like JDM headlights. It be cool and different looking at night-time.
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Ok I did this today. It worked perfectly and everything looks great!

What I did was cut the 2 wires going to the parking light. Then rewired them to the 2 wires coming out of the turn signal. Rewire the 2 turn signal wires to the parking light wires. I crimped connectors to them so they wont fall off for any reason.

Which wires do u swap?
- Swap each of the solid color wires (brown & red) together and striped wires (blue/green & blue/yellow) together.

Pix will be up once I get back into town this weekend.
Old Apr 14, 2006 | 03:05 AM
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Old Apr 14, 2006 | 05:33 AM
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looks like its really bright....lookin good tho...now i have an idea of what it looks like. thanks
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looks really good
Old Apr 14, 2006 | 08:47 AM
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I'm doing this, thanks a lot for the pics, man!
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More to do thanks!
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Originally Posted by Positron
What I did was cut the 2 wires going to the parking light. Then rewired them to the 2 wires coming out of the turn signal. Rewire the 2 turn signal wires to the parking light wires. I crimped connectors to them so they wont fall off for any reason.

Which wires do u swap?
- Swap each of the solid color wires (brown & red) together and striped wires (blue/green & blue/yellow) together.
dose that mean just simply switch wires from parking light to turn signal and turn signal to parking light?
do i must take off the bumper in order to do this project?
Old Apr 14, 2006 | 01:43 PM
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JDM headlights have the side lights on the bottom and the turn signal lights on the top?
Old Apr 14, 2006 | 01:50 PM
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I did it also, all you have to do is cut the red wire and the brown wire and swap them, took 15 mins to do



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