1999 corolla Parking light hook up

My gf drives a 99 Corolla, which pretty much makes it my car to play with. I have put an alarm into it, so I pretty much know it inside and out.

These guys are right in that the car does have 2 different parking light wires. One is positive, and the other negative. BOTH can be found at the bottom of the fuse box. I know one says steering column, but it's easier to just catch either one in at the bottom of the fuse box.

If your alarm just uses the parking lights for flashing on/off at arm/disarm, or just for full alarm panic mode, then either one will do. If your alarm has control of the lights at night (as in automatic parking and head lights), then I would use the negative. When you use the negative, you trigger the parking light relay, and you can see the slightly higher voltage, resulting in slightly brighter parking lamps and dash lights. But that is just me being anal.

Finally, take the white wires from your alarm. Hook up a meter, probe, or whatever you use to check polarity. Arm/Disarm the alarm. Send the alarm in panic mode. See if the white wires are outputing a signal when they are supposed to be. With this test, you can also see the polarity (positive or negative) that the alarm is putting out.

okay... so I metered some wires.... here's what I found

the white wires from the control unit have no voltage to them what so ever even when the alarm is activated... so I asked myself... what am I missing.  I saw that I havn't hooked up the headlight-on warning wire (RED / black) from the alarm.   so I tied that wire high (12v) and found that the white wires now read 12v as well?.... I"m guessing the headlight on warning wire has to be connected for the parking light wires to work from the control unit.

does this sound right?

also... can anyone tell me where and what color the headlight on warning wire is?

thanks so much guys

Mark

bump.... I still havn't put this together in my head.... little help ?

thanks

am I even on the right track... ?

thanks

Mark

First off, you still have not identified the proper parking light wire off the Corolla. I wrote before on page 1:

You will need to meter the proper wire and hook up th WHITE wire to the parkign light wire that you find. To turn on your parking lights, all you have to do is turn the light switch one turn until your gauge lights turn on and all 4 corner lights will be on as well. The target wire will have 12 volts on it when this happens.

oh no man... I already did that... I found the right wires... and metered them.... the problem is that I metered the white wires... and they dont' change when putting the car in panic... or locking or anything.... they only change when I hook up the wire labeled "headlight on warning" by the alarm manufacturor.

I'm thinking that if I hook up that wire... then those white wires will actually change in voltage when using the alarm.

?? thanks for checking back... any light on this?

Mark

 HEADLIGHTS|RED / white           |-  |steering column

This wire is a (-) trigger for a relay that turns on the headlights.

thanks.... so I should connect the wire labeled "headlight on warning" just up to the headlight switch?

I'm just a little confused I guess?