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Old 01-26-2002, 06:39 PM
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Default Finally got around to wiring my city lights via relay, but where did you guys mount the relay? I....

can't find a good place for it. Oh and the cities on without parking lights on the first click is def. the way to go. It looks very nice wish i did it sooner.
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Default I mounted my relays to the hidden 3rd bolt that is no longer used when you take the 2 piece lights

off. Glad you got it all to work!
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Default Dumb question, but why did you use/need relays? I have euros on order...

...and thought I could just use the turn signal / parking light wire for the city lights with no additional fuss. I also kind of assumed that the people who were using relays were doing so because they ran city and parking lights. (Or they had the city lights rigged to go off with full headlights)

Do I need to look into doing relays to do the job right?
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Default The reason we use the relays is to switch from city lights to corner lights..

or simply to turn off the city lights for those that don't run the conrer lights. There are at least 4 different ways to have the cith lights connected:

1. City lights on all the time, (parking and lowbeam) corner lights only used for signal.

2. City and corner used for parking lights, corner also used for signal.

3. City used for parking, switching off during low beam, when the corner marker turns on (use a relay for this). (which is the way i have mine.) corner used also for signal.

4: City lights only (no corner parking light activity) switching off for low beam.(use a relay for this) Corner light used onl for signal.

There are probably more variations, but those are the basic ones.
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Thanks. So it sounds like I dont need one for what I'm doing (your scenario #1).
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Thanks! I'll try to put it there.
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yea what said :-)
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