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loneranger 
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The best way is to verify the wires at the switch with a DMM.

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It's a single wire which holds - while the parkers are off then it goes + when they get switched on.

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Are you sure it's showing ground? It might be like the dash illumination wire your probing. Turn the dash lights up and down and measure the voltage on that wire, while doing so.
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Try applying 12V from the battery or ign. switch, through a fuse(10A will do) directly to that wire.
If it illuminates all the outside parking lights, you can connect the output from your parking light directly without diodes.
If it illuminates the dash lights and not the outside lights, keep searching, probably at the light switch itself.
If it illuminates the parking lights on one side, you'll have a second wire that you need to find.
If it blows the fuse, then it actually does rest at ground and you'll need to interrupt it with a relay. I don't expect to see this on your car however.
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both parkers light up so does that mean I dont need any diodes?

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chriswallace187 wrote:
If it illuminates all the outside parking lights, you can connect the output from your parking light directly without diodes.
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