i drive a 1991 civic sedan. i dont know too much about lighting on my car, but i hooked up my sidemarkers to my bumper corner (green/black) where its never on, but on when signalling. the corner light has 2 bulb which is signal (green/black) and a parking (city?) light i assume (red/black) 1st click on the lever and it goes on.

the ? is, how do i get the sidemarkers to stay on and blink when signalling? without have my signal lights (corner and bumper) being on as well?

i know that the sidemarkers are only suppose to be blinking when signalling, i just like to have it bright up at night..

i dont want to hook up the sidemarker to the green/red/black, cause the sidemarker, bumper or corner light and parking light would be on the same time and all blink when signalling..is there a way around this or is that the way to go?

something about resistance to the lights, where i might blow a fuses everytime or mess something up..you know what i mean, much help is great!

hope this helps

 

you can do it, you will need 2 spdt relays per sidemarker. i dont know how to post diagrams on here though. ive done it on several of my friends cars. with park lights off the marker blinks with turn signal, with park lights on it illuminates marker and it will turn off/blink opposite of turn signal.

 

Here is the diagram.



You only need two relays total. Wire both sidemarkers to the same output.

 

you can do it without diodes. youre limiting what your relays do because youre using 30 's as inputs. if you use 87's and 87a's as inputs and 30's as outs you dont need the diodes.

 

JSPECSIR, could you please explane how you use 87 and 87a as inputs. do you reverse them like on the diagram above?

thanks

 

maybe this is viewable. it looks like **** when i take it from paint to photobucket.

 

Thanks, looks good enough for me., the yellow wire is just a jumper?

 

yep

 

You dont have to do all that with the relay and what not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My boy and I just grounded the light and then tied the wire in to the factory harness for corner marking light. One of those wires is the 1 you need to tie into so your side marker will stay on and blink. We never had any problems what so ever but thats only if you wanna do it that way.

 

you cant run a park light wire and a turn signal wire together into one single filament bulb with out some form of isolation. if you do you will be shorting those 2 circuits together. everytime you signal your parking lights will flash and everytime you turn on the parking lights the turn signal filaments will illuminate.

 

this guy obviously does not know what he's talking about..

 

hey can you show me a pic of a relay