’04 Ram, 560xv parking light flash?

i got a viper 560xv in a 2004 dodge ram 1500 and ALL the lights flash instead of just the parking lights.

i know for a fact that the white wire is spliced directly into the light switch wire with no resistor. an installer tried to get it to work with a resistor and when he grounded the wire directly to the chassis, the parking lights would come on just as expected. when he tried to use the white wire with the resistor, all the lights would flash again. what's up with that?

he also tried to use a relay off the white wire to ground the parking light wire like he did by hand, but he said the white wire didn't have enough current to close a relay?!?! is that possible or is he on crack.

i'm gonna try this myself, but i need to know what value resistor to use. is it 330?

thanks
hoot

parklights are WHITE/ grey positive in the main harness to the right of the steering column

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Shaughn Murley
Install Manager, Dealer Services
Visions Electronics
Red Deer, Alberta

Your truck has a seperate wire for each parking light.  Here's the facts:

Parking Lights+	wht/yel (L), wht/gray (R)	+	harness at top of driver fender
Parking Lights-	WHITE/ lt. green	-	headlight switch
Notes: Parking lights are negative trigger thru a 249 or 330 ohm resistor. MUST use a relay.

you can use either the (+) or (-).

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Do it right the first time

I use the WHITE/ grey under the dash, flashes all 4 corners.

I do dealership work for chrysler, been working on these trucks since they came out. All you need the WHITE/ grey In harness at the interior firewall in the driver kick panel

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Shaughn Murley
Install Manager, Dealer Services
Visions Electronics
Red Deer, Alberta

Shaughn, do i use a resistor with that WHITE/ grey wire? ...and does that wire take a (+) or (-) park flash output from the alarm?

thanks guys. so is a relay mandatory or can i just run this off the viper's white wire?

Yep, run it from the white wire with the resistor in line.

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Do it right the first time

Hoot] wrote:

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Shaughn, do i use a resistor with that WHITE/ grey wire? ...and does that wire take a (+) or (-) park flash output from the alarm?

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NO, this wire is the POSITIVE 12V parklight wire, no resistors, no relays. Make sure the alarms(or starter)s parklight output is set to POSITIVE

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Shaughn Murley
Install Manager, Dealer Services
Visions Electronics
Red Deer, Alberta

ok i got a few different answers here so let me make sure i'm not getting them confused.

option 1: use WHITE/ lt. grn wire off headlight switch with a 560 ohm resistor and a negative trigger from the alarm

option 2: use WHITE/ grey wire near steering column with no resistor and a positive trigger from the alarm

is that right?

Both options work, with slightly different results.

Option 1 - you must 5-wire the parking lights.
85 --- +12v
86 --- (-) trigger from 560XV
87 --- (-) thru a 330 ohm resistor
87a --- switch side of WHITE/ lt. green
30 --- other side of white
This way will flash all 4 exterior lights, AND the dash lights.

Option 2
(+) WHITE/ grey under dash in harness near parking brake
This wire will flash all 4 exterior lights, but NOT the dash lights.

I have done both, but have been using #2 lately. Much easier.