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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 04:00 PM
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I connected the black/white wire to the brown wire on my headlight switch. Now when my switch is on parking lights (parking lights never worked) it makes a buzzing sound somewhere near the passenger airbag. What did I do wrong?
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 04:02 PM
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And the headlights seem to half light up
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 04:30 PM
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Your back feeding the headlight relay.
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Carcrazygts2
Your back feeding the headlight relay.
how do I fix it?
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 04:49 PM
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Undo the headlight mod and fix the parking lights.
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 05:30 PM
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There's power going to parking lights they just are not coming on???!
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 05:34 PM
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Replace the bulbs, if the bulbs are ok, the sockets are bad.
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 05:36 PM
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And when my head lights were on 4 white LEDs that are in the parking light/turn signal piece (from my after market headlights) turned on with my headlights???i want that to still happen but without the bussing? Any ideas?
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Carcrazygts2
Replace the bulbs, if the bulbs are ok, the sockets are bad.
and I have led turnsignals it didn't work when I had regular bulbs either
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Old Dec 28, 2014 | 05:46 PM
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Post a picture of your front end please.
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