How to Install Sequential Turn Signals

[dangeris]

Ok Guys and Girls, I had to do it since I've mentioned it to LBC. Got me thinking... Couldn't get in touch with BlueBat so no Matte Black GTR overlay but that is coming soon! But I did take off the amber running light bulb as well as blacked out the signal bulbs. The whole process takes about 4 hours to do. Probably less but since I was technically "working" from home, I had to do this project in the middle of conference calls, answering emails and other work related stuff. I'm quite happy of the end result and I think you guys will be too! Let's get started!

This is what you'll need to do this:

6 - Oznium Orange flexible LED strips 4.7"

2 - Sequential Turn signal kit

8 sets Solderless connectors (male and female)4 wire tapsExtra wire 12gazip tiesdielectric grease

Slit /Spiral loom and zip tie holders

Wax / Adhesive Remover

And a Dremel ... I think everyone here knows what a dremel looks likes so no pic for this one.

Start off by taking off the Fascia. Underneath the headlights the there is a wire loom that contains the wires for the turn, park and headlights, open the loom and locate the following wires.

Passenger Side wires:Right turn signal - Grn / Silver tracerRight park light - Grn / Red tracer - for LED running lights

Driver Side wires Left turn signal - Grn / yellow tracerLeft park light - Grn / Black tracer - for LED running lights

Starting on the passenger side, open the loom and find the turn signal wires above. When you find them, separate them from the rest. Next you want to mount the sequential modules. I mounted them at the front corner of the bumper with a zip tie.



Next, connect the ground to a good ground point. I chose the bracket that supports the headlight. You'll need to use a small piece of black wire and a wire tap and tap into the black wire from the module. Attach a solderless connector at the end and label it "G".



Next, take a small red wire and slice that into the left side signal wire (grn/silver). I soldered mine and taped it. Should look like this:



The other side of the red wire should go into the tap that is on the red wire from the module similar to what you did with the ground wire.



attach solderless connectors on the red, white, and blue wires and label them accordingly. When you're done, go to the other side and repeat the process again.

Once your done that, it's off to mounting the flexible LED strips to the bumper! Clean it of thoroughly with water, and then use the Wax / Adhesive cleaner. Let it air dry.

Attach the strips so they look like this:



Then take the dremel and drill a hole big enough for the wire to go through about a 1" from the end of where the wire is located on the strip. You'll be doing 6 holes total.



In the picture where the three wires meet, I attached one of those zip tie holders and pulled the wires a little taught and zip tied them in place. Make sure you clean off the area with the cleaner before attaching the zip tie holder. Now cut the wire to length. Make sure you have enough slack to unhook the wire when you need to take off the fascia. Put the connector ends on it and tidy it up with the split loom.



When attaching the connector, make sure you do the following:

The Red wire will attach to the inside strip, the white to the middle, and the Blue to the outside strip. Mark the connectors accordingly so you don't get confused when you connect those wires to the module. Also make sure to use the dielectric grease inside the connectors to protect it from corrosion.

When you're done, re-attach the fascia, and sit back grab a beer and enjoy the light show. This is how it looks in the day. I had the camera propped up on a roll of fiberglass to shoot it. It's actually brighter in person then it is in the video!



And here it is at night Those strips are crazy bright!!!





One more little Tid Bit, You'll need to paint your Signal bulbs black. I used blk ceramic heat paint (2 coats and 3 coats of blk epoxy paint) Both readily available at your local lowes / home depot. If you try to do this mod without the bulbs, the LEDs will signal too fast thus not using the outside LED strip. They do make some kind of load balancer that "tricks" the electrical system that there is an incandescent bulb when there really isn't. But painting the bulbs will work out as well. Becarefull when inserting the bulbs back into the housing though. It's a tight fit and if you scratch the paint, you'll see at night when you use your signal.

Well that's it guys. Untill the next mod!!!!!

[rjdmmfl1]

Where do you come up with this stuff?????

This is definately unique.. good job and fantastik write up!!!

[spockrock]

good work, but I see what you did, the leds are sequential per strip, that doesn't look as clean as individual leds.

[dangeris]

Thanks Doc! I wanted to wait to post it with the matte black overlays but I didn't want to deprive the forums with this.

[dangeris]

good work, but I see what you did, the leds are sequential per strip, that doesn't look as clean as individual leds.

Yeah, there are only three strips and I thought about doing it with individual LEDS but that would have been a nightmare to wire up. imagine wiring up 36 individual LEDS... it would be cool though

[08altima35]

seriously dangeris.

looks great and a great easy to follow write up.

[spockrock]

Yeah, there are only three strips and I thought about doing it with individual LEDS but that would have been a nightmare to wire up. imagine wiring up 36 individual LEDS... it would be cool though

Yeah very true. Also I believe if you remove the bulb and then stick a variable resistor between the lights and power source you can adjust the speed of the sequential lights.

[GryStrm]

wow.....that's hot (paris hilton voice sans tinkerbell barking)..itd be hot if ur got leds to relace the turns in the mirrors...and seq those!....but wow..nice write up too!

[Warped161]

Nice work i did something similar with my 240 tailightshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6Mc8dfDL8where did you get your sequencers from? and how much were they?

[TheBourneAltimatum]

hmm...unique but not my cup of teagood work though

[adidas2go]

Very very nice!!! These are the same strips I will be using for my LEDS

[stsxcrle]

This looks sooooo hot. Great write up, way to innovate.

[LongBeachCoupe]

DANGERIS IM PEEING MY PANTS!

Great work man, i knew you would come across the right sequential part! It looks great, super bright!

Come to a meet damnit!

[D-Roll]

Great job bro!!!

[LinkNuc]

That's a great mod, well done!

[mcheddadi]

That's awesome! I might do stips but just below the chrome mustaches lol

[windex]

Wow nice setup! looks sick!

[maxentropy]

itd be hot if ur got leds to relace the turns in the mirrors...and seq those!....but wow..nice write up too!

+1! I want to see a write up for making the turns in the mirrors sequential!

Anyway, nice work!

[Scandinavian Flick]

that is awesome. and like someone said before time to do the signals in the side mirrors

[LongBeachCoupe]

Its gotta be the same to some extent... check the cable colors in the FSM and it should be pretty simple with the info dangeris supplied... id do it myself, but i dont have signals in my mirrors!

[marlin29311]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice....kinda makes me want to do it now

[ursus]

LoL i see you're gettin addicted to these LEDs!! Awesome work man, that is one unique turn signal.

[Colton92]

Quick question can we get this added to the How To Write Ups Sticky?

[maxentropy]

Quick question can we get this added to the How To Write Ups Sticky?

(In a phone operator voice)Please hold, Adidas2go will be with you shortly.

I'd also want to see someone do this to their side mirror turn signals and do a write up.

[Burtonboarder950]

thats awesome. you have courage to risk damaging your fascia installing those. NICE!!

[Colton92]

bump

[Infantry1327]

That looks amazing, I will be doing this for sure. But where did you get the Sequential Turn signal kit?

[adidas2go]

Quick question can we get this added to the How To Write Ups Sticky?

http://www.nicoclub.com/articles.php?id=356389

I already did it a while back

[Infantry1327]

Dangeris, I have looked all over the net and can't seem to find that sequential turn signal kit. Where did you get those?

[dangeris]

Infantry, Bought the sequential s off of Webelectrics.com http://www.webelectricproducts.com/

Look for the STS-1 kit. $70 with free ship!