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Talk about aftermarket Toyota Solara Gen 1-1.5 upgrades.

any ideas anyone?

any ideas anyone?

Postby triton_mustangs » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:22 pm

first off, i absolutely love this website! to get to my point, i'm from jersey(don't hate) and there white corner lights are legal in the front. now i think lighting can make or break how a car looks(obviously foggy headlights aren't asthetically pleasing). i was wondering, since how the corner lights blink it goes off to on, is there a way to reverse that and have it go on to off(i'm talking in regards to the 2nd filament). it seems that when the lights aren't blinking, they don't match the brightness of the headlamps but when they do blink they seem to be the same brightness, essentially everything flows then. hopefully you guys understand what i'm saying, and i hope to hear some ideas.

heres some pictures of what i mean:

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Postby kenny6683 » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:50 pm

The 2nd "filament" is hooked up to the turn signal wire. Which gives off more power. I think even if u switched the wires itwouldnt make a difference because 1st filament will now be blinker and will be brighter. This has to do with the turn signal relay. Basically I believe the best thing do is get brighter bulbs... Like toshiba hir bulbs. Too much power may melt your wires and little power will make your signals flash quickly. If anything I just said seems wrong someone pls correct me, but basically you should jus shop for new bulbs
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Postby 99BlackSandv6 » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:55 pm

Maybe if you just switch the wires on the plug so that the bright filament gets power normally and then the light will still blink the way you want. Just try switching the wires, see if that works.
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Postby Gibson99 » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:08 pm

careful... having the bright filament on all the time may MELT your corner lens assembly! it runs at 27w instead of the 6-7w of the dim parking light filament.

you can probably do what you want with one relay and one fuse. if you really want to know how, just PM me and i can draw up a schematic for you.
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Postby nemoxfishy » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:35 am

Try SMD/LED bulbs! They're great!
These were the ones I used before, but white turn signals are illegal in my city... Thats y i took them off. Image
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Postby Gibson99 » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:56 am

well if you do go LED, you can use two different color LEDs in the same enclosure to do it. superwhite for parking lights and orange/amber for turns. the problem there is making it flash at normal speed instead of the superfast that LEDs often cause.
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