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Old Jul 14, 2009 | 09:51 AM
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Ive seen people make their bumper lights stay on all the time, looks badass at night. How do you do it? I cant find anything!
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Old Jul 14, 2009 | 07:06 PM
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come on, anyone?
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Old Jul 14, 2009 | 07:13 PM
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wire them to you corner lights. In the corner light theres two bulbs, one is the turn signal. just wire it to the one that stays on all the time
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Old Jul 14, 2009 | 11:56 PM
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Find a honda tail llight socket with the three wires and it should fit your lens also. With the three wires it will blink with your turn signals and hazards, and stay on with the park lights. The third wire connects to one of your park llight bulbs in your corner lights.

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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 12:15 AM
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you mean changing your bumper lights to running lights i assume. i did this to my car many months ago,and it's really not too difficult. you do need two 3-wire dual filament brake light sockets to start. they do not fit into the stock lenses at all though. you have to get creative with how to mount them in the light. i bent all the metal tabs outward and then slid the socket into the light. now at this point nothing is there to hold the socket in place. i then bent down each of the tabs so that it was snug up against the inside edge of the light and held the socket snuggly in place. now find out which of the 3 wires powers the dimmer of the 2 filaments, and connect it to your running lights. then connect the brighter filament to the original power wire, and ground to the original ground.

and here is the end product

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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 12:18 AM
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dual filament lights ftw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVO9...er_profilepage
just swap to the 3 wire brake light sockets i got mine from a 88 accord outter tail light
then green wire to green black to black and the red wire to an extension wire then to the red wire on the corner marker light
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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 02:10 AM
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i wish someone had a complete write up for this. i have no clue w/ electrical wiring with cars and my dad wouldnt know what im talking about. weaksawce
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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bradennicely
wire them to you corner lights. In the corner light theres two bulbs, one is the turn signal. just wire it to the one that stays on all the time
X2....good luck.
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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by D16SiHatch
they do not fit into the stock lenses at all though.


If you use a honda tail light socket it will fit your light. I used some sockets from my old 92 teg and they fit my crx perfect, no modification required.
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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by scrboro
If you use a honda tail light socket it will fit your light. I used some sockets from my old 92 teg and they fit my crx perfect, no modification required.
well that works i guess. i didnt have any spare tail light sockets to use so i picked the generic ones up from vatozone for just a couple bucks.

to brownman: i pretty much made a writeup in my post above. it's really so simple to do, a writeup with pics and what not just doesn't seem necessary.
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Old Jul 15, 2009 | 12:29 PM
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^^ word.
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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 10:49 AM
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I have side markers on my fenders that the turn signal wiring goes to. Is there a way to make everything work at the same time? Just splice into that wiring with the 3 wires from the socket?
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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 12:17 PM
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disregard my last post! I just did one side and it was sooo easy! But its really dim though, i know its daytime but it seems too dim. Do any of yall have it wired so the brighter filliment stays all the time? Will it burn out if i do it like that?
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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 04:58 PM
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All finished and looking good! What do you guys think?

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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by InTheLBC20
disregard my last post! I just did one side and it was sooo easy! But its really dim though, i know its daytime but it seems too dim. Do any of yall have it wired so the brighter filliment stays all the time? Will it burn out if i do it like that?
if the brighter filament stays on all the time, then you would have to use the dimmer filament as the flasher. and as you can imagine that wouldn't work at all, assuming you actually wanted to see the bumper lights still flash. and yes i would imagine that the bulb would burn out much sooner with the brighter filament on all the time
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Old Jul 19, 2009 | 08:51 PM
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yeah it wouldnt be good, it looks fine at night, i was just out there admiring them!
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 08:57 PM
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Did this a while when i had my EF. What i did was, found a powered wire under the hood, or somewhere in the car. Spliced some wires, grounded them, hooked it to the bumper lights and a switch in the car. Cant remember the exact wiring, but both filaments worked perfectly, and i had the option of turning the bumper lights on/off whenever i wanted.


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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 09:02 PM
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lol he has been trying to do this for three month this guy is fail

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-crx-ef-civic-1988-1991-3/front-bumper-lights-converted-foglights-2658333/
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 09:08 PM
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ray charles could of figured this out decades ago
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BiG ChOr!Zo
ray charles could of figured this out decades ago
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