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i was just wondering if you could convert the parking lights.... these ones:

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into blinkers.

ive got an aftermarket bar that will need aftermarket blinkers that i dont really want to drill onto the bar.

i know you could just cut and connect the wires up, but is there anything else to it?

is the bulb in the parkers able to take the voltage of the blinker lines?

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It should be same voltage. If I don't see the current draw to be too high for the sockets etc either.

Re-wiring should be easy since you are going to be left with dangling blinker wires after your new front bar goes on...

Just remember to get orange blinker bulbs :P

Damn! I was thinking of doing this for the last few months. =-]

I thought the easiest way was to rerun the blinker wiring up to the parker socket, then soldering or crimping the blinker wire onto the parker globe socket.

That way, you don't need to worry about the current-draw, cause i'm sure the parker socket isn't going to be rated any differently to the blinker socket. All the lighting should be 12 volt, as has been said by "cc".

shouldn't be man. The blinkers usually run off a relay, which will blink double-speed if one of your other indicators isn't working.

Well, in my previous non-Nissan cars, that's how it worked. Usually the rear one was water-logged if the front one was going double-speed.

Interesting to find out if that is the case or not!

You will need to use orange bulbs or else its a defect.

But if your removing park lights, it will be a defect anyway.

When you get a rego check done, they will probally fail your car if its missing lights such as parkers.

So be warned...

drill a hole into your plastic housing and insert a clear white LED, then wire the LED in with a resistor to the park light connection. Instant parklight. You can then use the existing parklight as an indicator with an orange globe (or a clear globe that lights up orange).

we I have done this to my R33 2 years ago as the crapy trailer blinkers on the front bar looked sh!t, so put driving lights in the holes. moved the blinkers to the parking lights just rewire the the parker wires withthe blinker wires and change the wedge bulb with a orange glob!.....presto!

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