Bertsch911

i purchsed my 2000 civic si and it has the headlights with no amber reflecter and a slot in them for the city lights. i know these are not common. can anone tell me where these come from and what i have to do to wire up the city lights. thanks! will post pics tom

Former User

Install an amber bulb.

Bertsch911

im talkin about in the city light whole

Jimster480

can you link us to what you have? What city lights? Because these year civics dont have running lights.

slyda24

Having no amber reflector in either side headlight is against some laws. You can find out exactly which headlights are recalled here.

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/pr...illDown&step=2

Jimster480

lol damn there are alot of them. It seems there are 4 recalls for 2000 civic headlights from 4 diff mfg. The ones I have dont have amber reflectors either, but that doesnt matter because I am about to change them since they are the shitty black housing ones and I hate them.

slyda24

Lol yeah, i used to think the aftermarket headlights without the yellow's were Hot, but then as i ordered a pair, the seller told me he couldn't sell them cause of the recall so i had to settle for a different pair, but better safe than sorry.

acake em1

these sound like type-r headlights.

password jdm used to sell the wiring kit for city lights.

I had these in my civic and I never had issues with tickets or hassles from the police. I used an amber bulb for the turns, and the color was good enough to pass inspection and not draw attention. The bulb for the city lights is a 1157 if I recall correctly.

Jimster480

yea Idk I have aftermarket Depo ones on my baby right now, my daily has some black housing **** that came on the car when I bought it. I'm going to swap them since I partially crashed the front end of my race car so I'm going to do a 2000 front end conversion and swap my 97 DEPOs onto the daily.

Bertsch911

their the same lights as these

the thing i have circled is where the "city lights" go. but my car has no wire hook up for them. anyone know how i could properly get these working

slyda24

Usually those are hooked up to the park lights, but it seems useless because when the lights are on, you will hardly see it

Jimster480

thats interesting, ive never seen that

Bertsch911

i want them so i can drive at night with just my parking lights on, and my fogs and city lights would be on

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

They are not that bright. What are you thinking they are supposed to do? Most likely get you pulled over.

jbpnoman

They aren't bright at ALL. City lights in Japan are what we in America call daytime running lights. They will do absolutely nothing to illuminate the road in front of you. Their entire purpose is to make your car more noticeable to other drivers during the day.

Modell

I'd go to the junkyard and get some pigtails for the size bulb that fits the hole
and just wire them up to whatever other light you want on with it....like your fogs or parking lights....but just an idea.

Jimster480

Those arent going to be bright at all, you are going to get pulled over for not having your headlights on.

Bertsch911

i didnt mean drive in the pich black i know their not bright but they light up the headlight housing and with the running lights, city lights, and fogs im not gonna get pulled over in the city

Bertsch911

heres my actualy lights i just took the pic

phat00civic

I am really trying to find these headlights from the good old days...



Where can I get them as they are off ebay...lol.. good old ION headlights.

acake em1

Here is the wiring explanation for the city lights. I got this from a friend of Mine.
The only thing you need is the lights and plugs that fit into the slot. It's pretty simple and easy. This is the way I wired mine when I had my civic.

Your corner has three wires:

Red: 12v + Switched (marker)
Black: 12v - Constant (ground)
Green: 12v + Intermittent (signal)

You pull the red out of the corner so it will only flash one filament in the 1157 bulb (signal). If you are so inclined to have BRIGHT signals, you can feed another wire from the green to where the red used to be. That way, when you signal, both filaments will light.

To your city light you will be feeding the 12v + red wire from the corner, and quiksplice or t-tapping the black wire to the 12v - black wire on the corner. This will make your city lights come on with the parking lights and stay on with the headlights -- as they were designed to do.

jbpnoman

Yes you will. The law requires your HEADLIGHTS to be on. City lights are not headlights. They are daytime running lights. Stupid **** like this is the reason there's such a negative stigma around people who modify cars. Stop trying to find legal loopholes - they are not a legal alternative to head lights.

Deetz

Did you even look to see if the light were stamped "Honda" on them to see if they were an oem product?

jbpnoman

They definitely aren't OEM.

Bix VT

I couldn't agree more. I drive at night for a living, and people who do stupid things like this get people killed.

DO NOT think it's acceptable to drive your car at night without your headlights on.