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Default DIY: 2013 370z LED daytime running lights at night and day

PLEASE NOTE!!!

This is a rough install with pics. Everything now is zip tied, secured, buffered if touching metal etc etc

Step 1. Jack the car up

Step 2. Remove the belly pan, all 937 of them!!



Step 3. Remove 2 more bolts and 1 more plastic rivet from the outside wheel well guards on each side and bend it down and out of the way a little so you can see the LEDs and get to the plugs.

Drivers side



Passenger side



Step 4. Unplug the LED from the harnesses. There is a little tab you need to press in on both. There is also a tab pointing toward the passenger side of the car on the drivers side you need to press the top and bottom on to get it out. On the passenger side it’s a much smaller tab you can just pull out.

Drivers side tab



Step 5. Cut the wire loom and cut one wire at a time and tape them one at a time so you don’t get a short circuit if they touch. (I hate disconnecting the battery, so if you do one thing at a time and don’t touch the power wire to any metal you’ll be fine). You no longer need these so tape them up real good and zip tie them up and out of the way.





Drivers side



Passengers side




Step 6. Now you need to make yourself a new wire harness. Just get new wire and attach black to black and red to red. Make sure you solider them together, use shrink wrap and tape the piss out of them. Do this for both sides so you end up getting this. I also recommend taping along the wire so its nice and tight.











Step 7. Put it all back together attaching the left and right LEDs together. Zip tie the wire up and out of the way. The back of the fangs have holes already for you to do this. The wire sits low enough that you wont see it looking into the mouth of the bumper so that’s a bonus.







Step 8. Now that both LED’s are together you need to tap into the power wire and ground wire of your new harness and hook them up somehow. Starting with the ground I chose the drivers side for both because the fuse box at the battery are always running power. You need a power source that goes off when the car is off. There are two grounds in front of the drivers strut tower that worked perfect for the ground. The power wire I chose to get it into the cabin any way possible and after looking for a minute a chose to run it through the brake reservoir area, down the fender, and into the car through a rubber grommet you can barley see with the door open. Once inside you just need to attach it to a fuse. I chose the cigarette lighter 15 amp. Some will say don’t do it this way but jamming the wire into the socket and putting the fuse back has always worked for me.

Now you can see the wires are the same color. I did this so you wouldn't see red wires being run! Black stays hidden. Obviously you need to label them so you know which is which.

Ground



Power wire through a removed grommet and I fed it through some rubber hose I had.





Down the fender



Through a grommet



Into the cab



Tapped in




Taped up



Power and ground zip tied secure



Power wire jammed into fuse



Done





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