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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 12:43 PM
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city/parking lights

How do i get them on in the daytime? Do they only come on at night? I tried putting lights on manually, going from auto and so on. I just put my new fog bulbs in and parking lights and the fogs only work. Well I havent waited until the night yet.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 01:37 PM
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Mine come on whenever I turn them on (day OR night). I have an '04...may help if you tell people what year you have, since they're different. I have "clearance" lights and I don't think the '05's and up have those.....
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 04:29 PM
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Mine come on whenever I turn them on (day OR night). I have an '04...may help if you tell people what year you have, since they're different. I have "clearance" lights and I don't think the '05's and up have those.....
I have a 04. So they only come on when the car is in park? I just tried to see if the parking lights came on, they dont. There the piaa white led ones. My stock ones worked, but these piaa's dont. The fogs work by PIAA. What is going on, I hate when theres problems.
 

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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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what size bulb do you have? it is dual filament by piaa right?
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 05:51 PM
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No, they come one when you turn them on (it's the setting that is between the "AUTO" feature and the headlight feature I believe). I too have white LED PIAA's.

Try this...just go, start your car, and turn on your headlights. The clearance/parking lights are always on when the headlights are on. If they're out, then something is wrong.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 05:55 PM
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They are always on with your parking lights. They're just hard to see in the day.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 05:57 PM
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My lights are on auto and the parking lights used to work (stock) now these dont work. PIAA super led wedge bulb 168, part # 19263 (white color). I dont understand why they dont turn on
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 06:03 PM
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I have an 03.5 and I changed out my city lights with LEDs. They come on when you turn your parking lights on. High beam, low beam, fogs or no fogs, they are on. I hated the yellow stock light with the Xenons so I changed to superwhite LEDs and it accents the Xenons nicely. No yellow anymore.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 06:09 PM
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Sometimes that has to do with the quality of the bulb & the metal connectors on the bulb being too flat.... When I first installed my LED bulb in my rear license plate, it didn't light up. I pulled it out, then bent back the metal connectors so they stuck out more, popped it back in & bam....it lit up.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2007 | 06:10 PM
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Sometimes that has to do with the quality of the bulb & the metal connectors on the bulb being too flat.... When I first installed my LED bulb in my rear license plate, it didn't light up. I pulled it out, then bent back the metal connectors so they stuck out more, popped it back in & bam....it lit up.
hmmm such a pain i guess i have to undo everything and wheel well again to check. can you get pulled over with no parking lights? can they even tell if there on or off driving?
 
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 12:29 PM
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No, I highly doubt it man.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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Do they work at all? They are LED's and have to be installed in the right direction to work.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 12:55 PM
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These are the same ones I have....the LED's face outward.

http://www.cardomain.com/item/PIA19263
 
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 02:10 PM
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Do they work at all? They are LED's and have to be installed in the right direction to work.
So maybe they should of been installed the other way around? How can you tell? They popped in fine.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 02:10 PM
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These are the same ones I have....the LED's face outward.

http://www.cardomain.com/item/PIA19263
How do i know if the LED's face in or out, I have those exact same ones. If I look at the parking lights, what should i look for I will go outside now and check.
 
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