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Front Corner Light Extra spot...

PJGross

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Getting to know my GVR4 by replacing bulbs, I realized the front corners have a blank light hole behind the amber section. Is there a write up for incorporating these into the blinker or one of the other lights? Anyone know what it is there for?

-PJ
 

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i believe there's a small light bulb that goes in that spot- there are leads that bring power from the main bulb over to it (on USDM corners at least). I don't remember what size bulb, and I think you need a socket for it. I haven't looked at my USDM corners in a decade though so I'm a little fuzzy on it.
 

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It looks like I could put a 194 in it if I had the correct socket.

I was thinking it might be good to tie it into the turn signal marker so there is a front side indicator?

I didn't know if this was something for another country market where at the time it was required or what. Honestly I never noticed it until I was changing the corner bulb.

-PJ
 

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the whole assembly is MB529058


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here you can see how the second socket gets powered by the main light


 

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Just replaced my bulbs the other day. The corner lights are 164 I believe. One is 194 and one is 164, just put in whichever one you don't have.
 

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Andrew,
In your actual picture isn't the amber plug just that, a plug. It isn't an receptacle with wire leads, correct?

That's what I was wondering what it is used for.

Since I'm replacing and messing with turn signals, which the LEDs I just got for them need a resistor for the turn signal to slow down, I was going to run a lead up to the corner amber to light that one up. I just need to find a few bulb holders with leads off of them that are a little longer than the ones in your picture. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

-PJ
 

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It is a bulb holder. There are metal leads in the light housing that feed both power and ground to the socket.
 

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what thom's saying... the holder has contacts on it, and it pulls power from the other light bulb. It doesn't have it's own individual leads.
 

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Quoting PJGross:
Andrew,
In your actual picture isn't the amber plug just that, a plug. It isn't an receptacle with wire leads, correct?

That's what I was wondering what it is used for.

Since I'm replacing and messing with turn signals, which the LEDs I just got for them need a resistor for the turn signal to slow down, I was going to run a lead up to the corner amber to light that one up. I just need to find a few bulb holders with leads off of them that are a little longer than the ones in your picture. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

-PJ



It's like your dash lights, there is a circuit internally that feeds power over to that socket. Also if you stop buying the cheap stuff, you wouldn't need to worry about a resistor for LED turn indicators.
 

PJGross

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Just for clarification, the tailights purchased by the same brand were fine and didn't require resistors. Likely the turn signal circuit is a bit more sensitive.
If you have a suggestion for turn signals in LED that do not require resistors, that would be great. I'm not a great searcher, but I don't think there has been one verified on here? I searched +LED +turn +signal ?

I will go back and look at those corners again. Since both sides never had bulbs in them since I bought the car in '98, I made a bad assumption that nothing was in there.

I don't think I purchased "cheap" LEDs anyway. At least I didn't mean to. I was going off of a known working suggestion that worked just fine in another location.
I only cheap out on tuning hardware. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

So, the amber 164 bulb is just another corner indicator? Got it. Thank you!

-PJ
 
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