Author Topic: Wiring sidelights to indicators (Read 14093 times)

Khare · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 April 2009, 15:33 »

Quote from: Dec on 29 April 2009, 15:30

But normally US cars turn off the driving lights when the indicators come on, whereas the way that Khare will be wiring his, there will always be an orange light on, indicating or not.

And yes, my mate has a ticket to prove you cant run them

might have just been a twit copper tbh....

I'l see what i can do about the filters. worse comes to worse i'l find some clear ones in a scrappy or just forget bout the idea. Got the cables just about to wire them to sidelights ready for connection. Then i just gotta drill in indicators and done.

uta_flyinghigh · « **Reply #31 on:** 29 April 2009, 15:37 »

I don't doubt the fact your buddy got written up, I guess you're confusing DRL's and sidemarkers.

When I switch on parking lights on my US cars the orange parking lights, orange sidemarker lights and rear red parking lights come on.

When I switch on headlights the dipped beam comes on but of course the (orange) parking lights and sidemarkers stay on.

You can't miss the turn signal lights as they are much brighter than the parking lights.
The US VWvortex forums have a tutorial on making the sidemarker light flash when operating the turns but I'm too lazy to do that mod and besides no one here would notice.

UTA

VR6-Joe · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 April 2009, 17:01 »

Dec, the sidelights inside the headlights will still have clear bulbs and shine white..

There'll just be extra sidelights in the front indicators but with orange bulbs rather than clear ones

The orange indicator bulb is more powerful and therefore more visible than the sidelight bulb

Trust me on this one, I ran them for months before changing my indicators!

Khare · « **Reply #33 on:** 29 April 2009, 17:49 »

Quote from: VR6-Joe on 29 April 2009, 17:01

Dec, the sidelights inside the headlights will still have clear bulbs and shine white..

There'll just be extra sidelights in the front indicators but with orange bulbs rather than clear ones

The orange indicator bulb is more powerful and therefore more visible than the sidelight bulb

Trust me on this one, I ran them for months before changing my indicators!

well just wired it all in and it works great.
Joe is right, the sidelight has little output and the original indicator bulb is far more powerful, so when i turn sidelights on the indicator lights up slightly, and when i turn the indicator on it blinks through much stronger, so its deffo legal. Only downside i encountered was i dont know how one of the sidelight bulbs on the headlamp blew, but swapped it over from the working one and it worked fine, so need to get hold of a new bulb tomorrow.
Also, one of the indicators has the lense broken on the inside, so there is a white barrier between then lense and the orange filter. Going to the scrapy tuesday so I'l get hold of another indicator and just drill the sidelight hole again and swap them over.