blamerobb

so i found a good diy about how to do this... only thing i was concerned about doing was cutting one of the black wires at the top of the connector on the side marker... only thing is there are two black wires....which needs to be cut? and why would this be cut completely? dont you need both wires running to something? i already cut some incorrect wires and one of my grounding wires for my parking light please advize

04RX8man

what exactly are u trying to do to your blinker lights?

Jedi54

iTrader: (7)

Robb: are you trying to get your side markers to blink?

blamerobb

yes jedi
heres the link i am using
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...diy%3A+blinker

04RX8man

AHH jedi and I to the rescue as usual!....and Jedi will prob beat me to the solution as usual!

blamerobb

i hope so.. haha. i am confused on this i already choped wires and need to solder them back... i want to be sure.. so green and black wires to? and cut which black wire

Alexb

iTrader: (1)

Well, I'm not sure about what wire. But it looks like you cut it completely. On that DIY there was a paint drawing, so to answer your one question, yes it gets completely chopped.

04RX8man

from the sounds of that DIY you're cutting the wire completely to you can wire in the blinker all the blinke is doing it controling power or ground....acts like a switch sort of....either cuts power or cuts ground to the light.....

04RX8man

^that's what I think i'm getting from it let me read over it again and see what i see on the second time

blamerobb

ya thats what i thought but there are two black wires. this says gut the black wire.... which. haha

blamerobb

cuz ones ground and ones power i am assuming but which is which?

04RX8man

well you might b able to find where the one is grounded somewhere nearby...but if not it really shouldn't matter I wouldn't think...all you are doing is breaking the connection to the bulb so whether u break the connection at the ground side or power side wouldn't matter...

blamerobb

hmm makes sense but if you read the diy. he says 3/4 dosent work then you need to solder the black and red wire.. theyre both BLACK

blamerobb

maybe i am just overthinking it. i should wait till sat dozer has it done i can look at his too. just confused

04RX8man

Where the hell is Jedi on this one...we could use his input also

Better not be asleep or something yall are 3 hrs behind me and i'm still trying to figure this out! haha

04RX8man

Yeah i read that DIY again and it is a little bit confusing if I had my 8 right here in front of me I could prob b of more help but it's just not worded too well

blamerobb

right? its confusing. i was like

04RX8man

haah yeah I hear u it seems to be simple enough but there is alot of colors thrown around when he's describing it haha...

blamerobb

ya i know and if you look at your car. its like uhhhh.. and i connected the bottom green and black wire no the top blinker. i was like ughhhhhhhh

04RX8man

from the DIY it seems that when he says is 3/4 don't work etc etc....that doesn'tt have anythng to do with the black wires you cut and solder to the blinker wire....it just has to do with the wires to the side marker connnector...whatever that means!

Kaiser bun

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haha why dont you ask him... o wait ^

04RX8man

^haha also a good valid point maybe we shouldn't b reading into this thing too much haha

blamerobb

^^lol ya i could

Alexb

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could you not strip a bit of the wire off, and test which is power and which is ground with a multimeter? and then use electrical tape to recover the stripped portion?

Jedi54

iTrader: (7)

sorry guys, I was packing for the big Vegas Meet tomorrow.

Robb: did you get it figured out? (was too lazy to read all the posts)