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driving lights to work with parking

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Printed Date: May 28, 2024 at 9:57 PM


Topic: driving lights to work with parking

Posted By: yearmax416
Subject: driving lights to work with parking
Date Posted: May 07, 2008 at 10:04 AM

Hello all,

I have an 05' Pathfinder and I want my factory driving lights to work with the parking lights instead of just the headlights. I have checked and could not find a realy for them just the fuse. Can I just run a wire from my parking lights to the driving light and have them work that way or is there a relay I am not finding and need to go from there?

Any help would be great.  



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Posted By: Big Dog
Date Posted: May 12, 2008 at 2:25 PM

The easiest way would be to go to the underhood fusebox.

Start by removing the 20 amp foglight fuse. Plug a spade connector into the fog light side of that fuse socket. This is the side that will turn on the fog lights if you put a positive power to it. Bring this wire under the dash just to the right of the steering column. Connect this to pin 30 of a standard 30 amp relay. Make sure this wire can handle the current, minimum 16 ga.

Pin 87 of the relay you just added goes to a positive power through a 20 amp fuse.

Pin 86 of the relay to ground.

Pin 85 to the small red parklight wire. This is in a white 6 pin plug containing 5 wires near the steering column. Test it, it will show a positive signal while park lights are on.

Doing the above circuit will automatically turn on the driving lights every time the park lights are turned on. You may add a switch between pin 86 and ground to control it.



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