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

synolimit

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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zilverbullet

Sweet! Thanks for going after this DIY!

BTW - How experienced are you with electrical wirings? The most I've done is connecting wires for a headunit. I definitely am going to try this just hope it's not too difficult.

Reps given.

synolimit

I've done a lot and hate it, wires aren't my thing I enjoy. But it's not hard at all! Just connect the LEDs together, ground one wire and power the other. Simplest thing you could wire on a car. Just make sure the old wires are secure and taped up so water doesn't get to them.

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Rafiton

Quick question

Any lights of warning o anything lights up on the dash???

synolimit

No. Lights don't have warning sensors. This is no different than hooking up aftermarket fog lights.

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FX370Z

Is this mod illegal because running the DRL with the lowbeams will be equivalent to having high beams turned on due to the brightness?

Voice59

?!?!?! What?! Am I missing something?

synolimit

Not in my book. My LEDs face the ground about 10 feet in front of the car. My brights flood the street. I can name a dozen cars where LEDs stay on with lights. My 12 regal GS just to name one. Again if it was illegal cars wouldn't have fog lights ever.

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Limeybastard

Anyone know how to manually disable the LED lights and have them only come on with parking lights?

lesper4

I got the wire bypass to have my DRL on when ever the headlights are on but suddenly they quite working. I got the wires from Premium Car LED Lights, LED Bulbs, Headlights, Tail Lights, Fog Lamps Could I have blown a fuse, I couldn't find a fuse that had such a description. Is there an easier way to do this mod?

This is the specific product. Nissan 370Z LED Daytime Running Light Enable Kit with Parking Lights I also sent a message to IJDMToy

Thanks,

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2004 Mazda RX-8 grant touring VR-m (sold)
1992 Nissan 240SX/SE MG-m (sold)

Electrify904

I just did this with my Nismo but I wired the LEDs to a switch so I can turn them on and off whenever I want.

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2016 Brilliant Silver NISMO 6MT
Past: 2004 6MT G Coupe and 2004 6MT 350Z

Joefran1180

simple and clean, looks great.

neejv.

This is what i want to do with my nismo. Are you still current with this mod? Any issues? Thanks nice ride btw

Electrify904

Thanks! I couldn't have done it without the instructions in this thread so thanks to the OP for that.
Everything is still going good, no issues with the wiring. I would rather have put the switch in one of the blanks where the seat heater switches are but the switch I got was too big and I already had the car in pieces so I put it down by the fuses.

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2016 Brilliant Silver NISMO 6MT
Past: 2004 6MT G Coupe and 2004 6MT 350Z