Hi, Guest
09-27-2005, 01:18 PM
before you start, go and get some 1/8" female spade connectors and various colours of 18ga wire(6 colours should be more than enough) and make sure you have atleast 15ft of atleast2 colours! you will also need a small tube of RTV silicone and a roll of electical tape. i suggest the use of Solder and heat shrink but if you are ghetto, but-connectors will work, please buy the ones that have heat-shrink on them rather than the plain-jane ones. also a good test-light is suggested for error free work! ;)
well to wire them up propperly you can do the 3stage option from the sedan OR for cheaper and faster...
pull apart the drive side foot well and locate the green wire with red stripe(i'll have to double check that) that has signal from the brake switch. cut that wire and run 2 wires to the back of the car. the extra wire needs to be long enough upo front to tap into the fog-light wire off the headlight switch... this allows you to run a reverse fog on a euro bumper if you ever decide to go that way, if not, then don't worry about it.
once the wire(s) are run to the rear you will need to locate the reverse lamp wire cut and contect the wire from the brake signal to that wire on the inside of the car. next pull the tail light off and expose all of the wires as much as possible, you are going to need to cut and re-route all of them to make this work....
cut the bulb holders off and have a test light handy with a nice long jumper wire to the + side of the battery for testing ground.
strip all wires and lengthen them by 12". try and keep colour coding similar or write down what whire is what on a piece of paper to keep it simple.
the wire you ran from the front that is now hooked to the reverse lamp wire running to the tail lamps on the inside of the car, this needs to get connected to the "major" terminal on the euro bulb holder.
locate the parking/running lamp wire and hook it to the "Minor" terminal on the euro bulb holder. add ground to this holder and check function of the park/running lights and brake light when depressed. once you have verified functionality, make sure the spade connectors are on tight to the terminals. load up the ends of the bulb holders at the terminals with the RTV silicone, this seals out water and pretty much eliminates any chance of shorting from loose connectors on the terminals. fill the bulb holders till over flowing and quickly wrap the holder down to the wire trying to make as clean a seal as possible.
the left over wires are the now seperated turn signal wire and reverse ground, hook these into the other euro bulb holder and test functionality. once working complete the same sealing steps as above and you should be good to go onto the other side.
again, test everything a few times before you seal it together.... it's not perminant but is ucks having to pull everything apart because you made a little mistake.
i'll try and get pics of this up when i have time to do so.
well to wire them up propperly you can do the 3stage option from the sedan OR for cheaper and faster...
pull apart the drive side foot well and locate the green wire with red stripe(i'll have to double check that) that has signal from the brake switch. cut that wire and run 2 wires to the back of the car. the extra wire needs to be long enough upo front to tap into the fog-light wire off the headlight switch... this allows you to run a reverse fog on a euro bumper if you ever decide to go that way, if not, then don't worry about it.
once the wire(s) are run to the rear you will need to locate the reverse lamp wire cut and contect the wire from the brake signal to that wire on the inside of the car. next pull the tail light off and expose all of the wires as much as possible, you are going to need to cut and re-route all of them to make this work....
cut the bulb holders off and have a test light handy with a nice long jumper wire to the + side of the battery for testing ground.
strip all wires and lengthen them by 12". try and keep colour coding similar or write down what whire is what on a piece of paper to keep it simple.
the wire you ran from the front that is now hooked to the reverse lamp wire running to the tail lamps on the inside of the car, this needs to get connected to the "major" terminal on the euro bulb holder.
locate the parking/running lamp wire and hook it to the "Minor" terminal on the euro bulb holder. add ground to this holder and check function of the park/running lights and brake light when depressed. once you have verified functionality, make sure the spade connectors are on tight to the terminals. load up the ends of the bulb holders at the terminals with the RTV silicone, this seals out water and pretty much eliminates any chance of shorting from loose connectors on the terminals. fill the bulb holders till over flowing and quickly wrap the holder down to the wire trying to make as clean a seal as possible.
the left over wires are the now seperated turn signal wire and reverse ground, hook these into the other euro bulb holder and test functionality. once working complete the same sealing steps as above and you should be good to go onto the other side.
again, test everything a few times before you seal it together.... it's not perminant but is ucks having to pull everything apart because you made a little mistake.
i'll try and get pics of this up when i have time to do so.