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vrfreak

I don't know if this is a dumb question but can anyone please tell me where(exact wire color) to hook up the resistors in the front to prevent hyperflash!
I finished my lights and while I was at it I was gonna get rid of that so I tried a few things cuz I did do research but I can't seem to get it workin gotta admit I am not the best with electric a I would appreciate any help
thx!

DIGItonium

You need to hook up one end of the resistor to the ground/common wire and the other to the wire to the turn signal wire connecting to the bulb. So if your bulb plug has 2 wires coming out of it that lights up the bulb, connect the resistor ends to those 2 wires.

IIRC, you'll need one for each turn signal bulb you replaced with LEDs.

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vrfreak

thx for ur reply digi but that's pretty much what I did exept I soldered one wire to the the turnsignal and went to ground on the car!
unless I went to ground twice lol
do u know if the green white or green yellow wire is ground or power???
ok this Is what I tried I have on both lights soldered on end of each res. to on cable from the turnsignal I think it was green yellow or green white and then I went to ground on the body
and when that didn't work I tried to connect between the two turns. cables dunno the other color right now! not the black third wire tho which is to hook up switchback
so pretty much what u said I tried but no luck maybe I just had bad ground all the time :/

DIGItonium

OOh... you have the 3rd wire which is for DRL right?

I use a cheap multimeter and set it to continuity check. One probe on the chassis, and the other to probe the terminals inside the bulb socket. If you hear a beep, that's the ground wire. Set it to VDC for the voltmeter and probe the remaining terminals while the blinker is active, and you'll know for sure which one is the turn signal wire. That's when you solder both ends of the resistor to those wires.

Another check is to plug in the LED bulb and make sure it lights up. Remember the orientation, pop off the bulb or get another one, and rig up a 9V battery to get it to light up, and from there you'll know the polarity matching the terminals in the socket.

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vrfreak

Yes I do have that 3rd wire but it's just like a short piece that leads nowhere! Maybe it's time to get comfortable with a multimeter never used one of those lol but I will try and I'll report back


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DIGItonium

It's a great tool. Simple cheap one for about $20 or less is more than adequate for small jobs. Plus it's good if you need to trace pins. For example my harness adapter didn't have a dimmer wire so I was able to trace it and get dimmer working for my stereo. Also I was able to trace the wire needed to power up my reverse camera. No blown fuses and I get things working on the first try.

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SouthArk370Z

The FSM has wiring diagrams with color codes. Probably easier than putting a meter on it.

As has been pointed out, run the resistor from the "hot" side of the lamp to ground.

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vrfreak

k I am sure I can do it I will get a multimeter this weekend and go from there
also @southArk forgive me but what is FSM?
factory service manual???

SouthArk370Z

Yep. Link in my sig. If you plan on working on your Z, I highly recommend that you download it.

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vrfreak

already did man thx again now I only have to find my way thru it for what I'm lookin for!
but everybody should definately have this!

SouthArk370Z

The connector pinouts, which show the pin numbers and wire colors, is usually right after the wiring diagram, which is usually about 2/3 - 3/4 of the way through each section. If you can find it in the TOC, you should be able to click on it to go straight there.

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vrfreak

Ok I probably spent an hour and a half now could not find it! Now I read ur last post and tried to find TOC and it's not listed
I went to extl and I fell like found something but probably just can't read the diagram properly and therefor unable to make out the colors lol
Isn't that it



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DIGItonium

See E58 front turn signal lamp? You wire the resistor in parallel to that bulb to wires marked 4 (Ground) and 6 (Turn Signal Output). What you're trying to do is create a load using the resistor that's enough to fool the BCM into thinking the bulb is still there. The drawback with this method is that you'll never know when the LED bulb stops working. Well... I guess that works both ways haha.

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SouthArk370Z

Assuming you are talking about the front turn signal lights, then you need to find connectors E55 pins 1 (hot) and 2 (ground), E58 pins 4 (ground) and 6 (hot), E24 pins 1 (hot) and 2 (ground), and E28 pins 4 (ground) and 6 (hot) in the pinout section (should be just a page or three past the last wiring diagram in that section). The pinouts will tell you the wire color.


Edit: BTW, you only need one resistor for each side (the lights are in parallel). Make sure the resistor can handle the power.

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vrfreak

Well I'm sorry guys but once I try looking at these diagrams I just get so confused mind u I'm looking at this the first time :/
I am just gonna try to connect each resistor of each light to connect between the two wires that are at the socket cuz for that led bulb to work it needs a hot and a ground so if there is only 2 than it should b pretty safe to assume that those are the right ones no?
Also when is the car gonna switch back to normal blinking? Do I first have to finish with the res on all 4 lights(front and rear) or should each light go back to normal when I hooked up the res on lets say just front right for example

Oh and ya I know 1 for each light (does that mean I need one for each side marker too???) and they are 50w 6 Ohm that's supposedly what everyone is using for our cars

Edit: ok so what I did didn't work I went to the green-black with one end and to the black-yellow with the other end of the res. those are the 2 wires from the turnsignal socket but I only did the fronts so far

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