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Have a look at the attached pic and notice the lights that I circled. When I first got my car I was trying to figure out how to turn these on (I thought they were foglights). I gave up after I tried every switch, and then I realised after an inspection that there weren't any bulbs in them!

I want to fit bulbs into this space and I was wondering if anyone has done it?

If no one has done it I'll let you guys know how I go when I get around to doing it.

cheers

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Yeah there are really tini tiny bulbs that specially made for series one only, they are size of pin, if you look carefully you might able to see it.

Normally they are disconnected from the boot of the car just plug them in from the little black fuse box that is located under the spare tire and firewall in the boot.

I hope I made sense there... ;) ;)

cheers

Joe

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Hmm mine had big bulbs,

It seems some of them have and some of them have not.

My first R33 had a mspec front bar with those foggies all hooked and working

My new R33 does not have a mspec front bar and the foggies are't hooked up.

Looking @ mates R33's it would seem that some have them and some don't. The acutual light assembly stays the same but the "connection" is not in.

I don't htink its easy hooking it up either , and they were't so "bright" so u mite wanna invest in some after market ones anyways

DOnnie

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ive been wanting to hook mine up since the day i got it.. however im pretty sure there are no globes or connnections. there is only the wiring running from the fuse and it stops at a plug behind the front bar. i guess you could order them through nissan maybe? who knows??

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oooh!!!

YES!

This is exactly what I wanted to do, but have them as park lights!

I bought 2 WHITE 6000mcd LEDs from Jaycar, and some matching resistors... Behind the fog light bit is a small rubber elbox, pull that off and there's enough diameter to squeeze an LED in it!

BINGO!

Hooked the LEDs up to the parker circuits... works... Like Joe said, they are the size of a pin and dont give out much light. I want to drill into the back of them to allow more light through, but couldnt get that indicator assembly out to do it.

I'm going to give it another shot on the weekend. However, the white leds look awesome already :(

-Kym.

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Hooked the LEDs up to the parker circuits... works... Like Joe said, they are the size of a pin and dont give out much light.

i would imagine using these LED's would really only light up the inside of the light enclosure. How does it look from the outside? is it worth doing? or i invest in a globe that produces more light?

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Originally posted by akeenan

 

i would imagine using these LED's would really only light up the inside of the light enclosure.  How does it look from the outside? is it worth doing? or i invest in a globe that produces more light?

the LEDs are 6000mcd (blinding to stare at directly) IMO I like the white light of the LED better than a yellowy-globe....

and yes, it only lights up the light enclosure, but it has tiny holes upright in a line vertical that let the light through......

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there are 2 different assemblies... one has only the indicator and a dummy reflector while the other has the indicator and the auxiliary lamp... there are 2 obvious differences when u line them up next to each other... 1) one of them has horizontal lines on the lens while the other has vertical lines... 2) the one with the auxiliary lamp has a smaller indicator space than the one without...

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hey, just read this thread and realised that i have fog lights as well :D i actually have two cables coming out which which didnt connect to anything and looked like they connect to foglights but i didn't see any on the car so i tucked them away, silly me.

i'm going to go and try see if i can connect them now.

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I got mine working a while ego. They had big bulbs and all wiring connected. I just needed a $50 relay from Nissan (same as your lights) which goes to the engine bay fuse box and a switch connected to the spare wires sitting under cover of your steering column.

Let me know if you need more info.

Tom

aha.. and they not bright at all

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Originally posted by lou15x

there are 2 different assemblies... one has only the indicator and a dummy reflector while the other has the indicator and the auxiliary lamp... there are 2 obvious differences when u line them up next to each other... 1) one of them has horizontal lines on the lens while the other has vertical lines... 2) the one with the auxiliary lamp has a smaller indicator space than the one without...

This is 100% correct. My car came wit this option from the factory, as i have the switch mounted on the indicator stalk. Unfortunately i had to remove these fog lamps, as there are alot deeper than the indicator assy. without foggies, as they were not sitting properly when i installed a fmic.

I now use this switch as my boost switch :).

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Are you saying the indicators with fog light is deeper than the one without? I thought they would be the same depth so they'll both sit at the same position in the front bar. Otherwise Nissan would have to make two version of each standard & Type-M frontbar, one for installing indicators+fog and one without fog.

Wouldn't be too economical from manufacturing point of view?

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Same bar, same mounting position, just that the depth (behind the bar) is differant. (There is alot of space between the bar and radiator, or whatever else is behind the bar)

Compare the pics above to a std. indicator assy. You will see that where the reflectors (std) are it narrows significantly, as the fog lamps remain straight. I can show you in person as i have them in my shed (Be it in very poor condition, another reason why i replaced them)

I modified the pic above to demonstrate the rear housing of a std. indicator assy.

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