you got them yet???

 

the first day, i spend 6 hours working on the driver mirror in my house, and came up with there is no way possible to route a new wire for the parking/clearance light. plus i didnt want to have to run a new wire to the door, so u sacrificed the puddle lights. i rather have a clearance light than a puddle light. i found the puddle light wire under the driver and pass door seals and tapped that to the main headlight connector in the pin 5 wire, brown. that is the one that blinks with the parking lights at you lock and such.

so if you dont want to lose your puddle lights, then you might only get a turn signal.

here are a few pics to help those who want to do this. pics came from my blackberry so they are not the best. also, i didnt finsh getting all pics i wanted. phone died. i will get better night and day pics tomorrow with my wifes camera.

first, start by removing the top glass by inserting a screw driver from under the mirror to the tab you see below and twist. the glass will pop out at that corner so you can insert the screw driver further to release the other 3 tabs, 4 total.


now for the bottom spot mirror, tilt it up and outward. same tabs as the above glass.


now for the 5 torx 20 screws. im pointing to 2 in the top, and there is one more in the top left corner. 3 total in top


there are 2 more behind the lower mirror.

 

now you can spread the 2 halfs apart, but only this much!!


next, pop out the turn signal.


now it is time to measure and mark the location for the light. here i used a straight edge and traced out the 2 front groves of the mirror but stopped 3/4in from the vertical joint of the 2 halfs. connect the dots.


next i centered the light on the line and marked the screw holes and wire hole. remember, measure 2, drill once!!

 

drill holes, size depends on what u use to mount the light, but the wire hole, i used 1/4in bit.


feed wires in the middle hole and then mount the light.

 

ok, here is where i run out of pics, but it is pretty easy and straight forward.

need to pop out the puddle light. need to insert a lil screw driver on the side with the indention, while you take a long screw driver through the lower mirror hole to push the puddle light out. there are 2 wires on the puddle light and they do the same thing. cut the connector off, and cap one off. the other goes to the black wire of the new light. that is now the parking/clearance light. next, you tap into the turn signal wire. it has 2 also and the green/white stripe wire is the power that goes to the red wire of the new light for the turn signal and the other is black and it goes to the white wire of the new light for the ground.

ok, went out and got some pics today of where i found the puddle lights under the drivers and pass door seals and where i tapped into the parking light wire at the headlight switch.
driver:

pass:

headlight switch:


now test!!


if all works, put everything back in reverse order. while i was wiring, i charged my phone a lil and got a final shot with both working. not the best but i will get more tomorrow!!

 

get everything organized and get it posted to the technican articles forum.

 

...yeah and please post links to bigger pictures. Thanks.

 

yea, i wasnt thinking when i posted all that here. it took a while, but hopefully i can just copy and paste and i will start a thread down there.

as far as the pics, i dont know how to resize them. they were taken with my blackberry and uploaded straight to my gallery here, then to the thread. if someone will tell me how to make them bigger, please do!!

edit--nevermind on the larger pics, i fixed it!!

 

good job, man I have been really thinking about doing this. Living in New Jersey you have to have as many turn indicators so all the retards around you can see what your doing.

 

here are a few daytime pics....






ill get some nitetime pics tonight with the better camera!!

 

Nice job labman!

I ordered those same clearance/turn signal lights. I mounted them on the side of my mud flap, just behind the front wheel. I like it.

 

Gonna try to do mine this weekend, good write-up! To get my puddle lamps to work I had to splice my dome light wire. Guess I'll have to undo that splice and find parking light wire.

 

if you already ran a wire to the door for the puddle, then just disconnect where u tapped the dome light and tap it into the brown wire in your headlight switch. will be pin5!!

all i need to get is my cab lights and i will be set!!!

 

Looking good guys! Here was mine, thanks for the shoutout too

http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i4...t=skitrip2.jpg