HELP! How to wire side markers?

[EliteConcept]

i found these really cool Mini LED side markers at autozone today they require no drilling ...well i take that back, only a small hole for the wires, and they attach to the body with 3M double sided tape....

heres where i have a problem.

they have 3 wires attached to them.
Red, Black, and White wires.

there is 2 led bulbs in each side marker, they are supposed to be able to be hooked up for parking and turn signal lights i suppose.
but there is no instructions

can anyone help please???

would like to have an idea about how to do this before i kill myself or my electrical system

thanks in advance

ryan

 

[Josh S.]

Well, I'm not too sure, but this is the way I would test it out. First of all, pop our hood. The black is fa sho' the ground wire, so just set the lights inside the engine compartment or whatever and connect the ground wire to an existing ground. Don't cut any wires yet btw. I'm assuminng that the two lights are independently wired, just using the same ground. That means the red is the poitive wire for one of the leds, and the white one is the pos for the other led.
Pick up a continuity tester for yourself at autozone or whatever too. This will help. Everybody else on this site seems to know which color wires are for what on all the stick lighting, but I don't, so I just use a tester. They're like 10bucks. Anyway, turn on your parking lights then just pierce the wires going into your signals with the tester till you find one that makes the tester light up. Splice one of the wires off your new lights(whichever one you want to be on all the time)into this wire you just found. (White or red, your preference) After this is done, put your turn signal on and poke the other wires(not the one you just spliced) until another one lights up. Splice the leftover wire from your new lights into this.

Note: Test to make sure your new lights actually come on before you fully splice them and stuff. I have little washer lights spliced into my headlights. To splice them, I just shaved and sliced the insulation off a segment of the appropriate headlamp wire, then wrapped the new wire around it and e-taped it. I know its ghetto, but it freakin' still works with no problems.

Let me know if you have any questions or tell me when ya get it workin' Later

Oh! and one more thing...You'll have to wire each new light on both sides of the car obviously, because they're turn signals too as you say, and you dont want the left one blinking when you flip on the right turn signal! Josh

 

[Sandy]

What Josh says sounds good.
Watch for one being brighter than the other, the brighter one should be the turn signal.

Good Luck,

 

[Crankcase]

The really dangerous way is to place the black wire on the neg post of the battery, and test the other wires one at a time by touching them to the other post. They should both light up seperatley when both wires are connected at the same time too....

But this is a much more dangerous way of doing this, so do it only if you do not have a tester or want to pierce wires before installing....