bumper light to yellow corner light wiring.

Alphaxomega · November 2009

does anyone know how to do this?
rewire the bumper lights to the yellow corner lights?\\\
ive been wanting to do this for some time now just dont know how.

doitdub · November 2009

Kind of hard to make out what you're asking, but is this it? How to Turn your bumper lights into running lights It's on a CRX, but should be the same wiring on the wago...

jfrolang wrote:

If you wanted to turn the bumper light into only a running light, you would tap into the hot wire of the front bulb on the corner lights and run them down to the bumper lights, replacing the factory wiring there. However, I don't recommend this, since people facing you head on won't see your signals, and it's probably not legal.

The way that I did it, the bumper lights will be on when the parking lights are on, and will still function as turn signals.

Basically, you're gonna swap out the factory 1156 bumper light bulbs for 1157 dual-filament bulbs. Get the corner light bulb sockets from a 92-95 Civic, either from the junkyard or from a Honda dealer. These are designed for 1157 bulbs and will hook right up to the CRX bumper light housings, at least for 90/91 cars.

So once you've got the new sockets and a fresh pair of 1157 bulbs from the parts store, you can put them in. There are 3 wires on the 1157 sockets, and you only have two wires on the stock bumper lights. Ground goes to ground, and you're going to tap into the front bulb of the corner socket for the third wire.

An 1157 bulb, for those uninformed, has a "bright" and a "dim" side. The factory bumper light hot wire goes to the bright side of the 1157. You just have to twist the wires together temporary like to see which is which, before finalizing the connections. The wire you pulled down from the corner lights will go to the dim side of the 1157.

In this way the turn signal circuit is unchanged, and will still be visible over the less bright running light circuit you've added.

Alphaxomega · November 2009

yeah thats what it is but damn i need some pics of this process because i get confused alot
and i thought it would be just a quick cut and solder process but i guess not..

Fl.boostEEd · November 2009

id like more info on this too

i personally dnt like the way fogs look on these cars but that crx looks sick. id want them on all the time tho idc about being pulled over lol. or id there a way to wire the blinker somewhere else?

Alphaxomega · December 2009

wagodizzle game me his input on this if you want to try

wagodizzle wrote:

hey, well i think i know.. i did this to my side markers, but im not 100% sure of it will also work with the bumper lights, but i guess thats for you to find out :P

anyway, this is what i did...

there are two bulbs in the corner lights, one is the park light (the clear part) and the other is the turn signal (the amber part). the turn signal light comes on when you turn on the park lights, and when the signal is one is alternates flashes with the bumper lights. so what i did was wire my side markers to the bulb socket of the AMBER part of the corner lights. this way they flash, and also are on all the time when the lights are on.

to wire, simply splice in a wire to each of the two wires from the amber corner light, and run in to the bumper light...

cut the bumper light wires so you have at least 3 inches left at the socket side, and solder them to the wires you ran from the corner lights. make sure you keep the ground wires together, and the power wires together.

i hope this makes sense, if all goes well it should work.

going to try it later see if it works or not

wagodizzle · December 2009

disclaimer: if your car explodes while you try to do this, im not liable. end disclaimer.

Fl.boostEEd · December 2009

i really suck at wiring so if i try my car might go boom

we lit my boys jetta on fire hahaha

Alphaxomega · December 2009

well went to my friends house to try this on his crx lol
and it worked we drove around for a while and they flash and everything
on our way home we got a ticket for idk what didnt understand what the cop said
he just said you cant have them on so ....idk if i want to do it anymore on mine
and hes car didnt exploDe

BIOHAZARD · December 2009

Fl.boostEEd wrote:

i really suck at wiring so if i try my car might go boom we lit my boys jetta on fire hahaha

jettas should catch on fire anyway. just my opinion on VWs in general.

wagodizzle · December 2009

Alphaxomega wrote:

well went to my friends house to try this on his crx lol
and it worked we drove around for a while and they flash and everything
on our way home we got a ticket for idk what didnt understand what the cop said
he just said you cant have them on so ....idk if i want to do it anymore on mine
and hes car didnt exploDe

so i did a little observing and the DC Integra, Isuzu Pup, and other vehicles have the bumper lights ON when lights are ON... these cars were stock too.

what gives then?

Haydz · December 2009

They are factory exempt.

wagodizzle · December 2009

wouldnt doing this mod be basically the same as factory though?

Haydz · December 2009

The car has passed inspection from factory with this configuration, you want to re-DOT it or whatever you guys do there? hehe

wagodizzle · December 2009

lol i have no idea what we do here..
pretty much nothing

Haydz · December 2009

Over here we would get an LVVT certification check. It costs about $300 and allows you to do safe modifications to your car and still use it on the road.

LVVT = Low Volume Vehicle Testing, you get lumped in with the rods and customs.

Alphaxomega · January 2010

Did it and love it.
Doing this on my friends ef9 for fun.

Storm rain.

bumper light to yellow corner light wiring.

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