How To: B14: Side Markers

[Vadim]

How To: B14: Side Markers



Instructions on how to install Side Markers on a B14 Sentra/200sx.

What will be needed:

• 2 Side Markers - I used S2000 side markers
• About 12 Feet of Wiring, 18 gauge should do
• Knife for wire stripping
• Soldering Iron and soldering equipment
• Electrical Tape or Heat Shrink or something that will cover up the soldered wires
• Phillips Screw Driver - For taking off the corner
• Grinder, drill, metallic scissors, or something to cut a hole in your fenders with

Installation

1. Disconnect your battery, because we will be working with wires

2. Take off the corners and disconnect the harnesses. Then decide if you want to wire up your side markers to stay on with the corners when your lights are on, or if you would like for them to just flash with the turning signal.

3. Look at the harness it, your driver side harness should look like this.



4. You will find 3 wires connected to the harness. One is ground, one is used for constantly keeping the bulb on, and the last one is for making the bulb flicker when you turn on your turning signal. Below you will find the colors of the wires and what they do.

Drivers Side
Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Black - Ground
Green-Black – This wire makes the corner blink.

Passenger Side
Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Black - Ground
Green-Yellow – This wire makes the corner blink.

This is where you have to decide if you want your side markers to always stay on or to only blink with the turning signal.

UPDATE!
Thanks to a forum member, DC Scotty, I was able to make the side markers stay on with the lights, but when you turn on the blinkers/hazards they would flash too!

The side markers would blink with the turning signals when the lights are off too!

Best of all it's really easy to do.

Basically take the ground wire on the side markers, and instead of hooking it up to the ground wire of the turning signals, hook it up to the turning signal wire (not the constant stay on wire).


The wiring would look something like this:

Drivers Side
Positive Wire to Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Ground wire to Green-Black

Passenger Side
Positive Wire to Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Ground wire to Green-Yellow – This wire makes the corner blink.



5. Strip the ground wire and which ever other wire you decided to use.

Take the 18 gauge wire and cut about 6 feet, then cut it again in half. You will have two 3ft wires and one 6ft wire. If you wish you can use different colors for ground and electrical wires. I used black for ground, red for electricity.

Strip the ends on the two 3ft wires and connect the 18 gauge wires to ground and one of the power wires and solder them on.





6. Now you will need to find a spot were you want to attach the side marker on the fender. Mark it and cut that hole out. It is easier to better cut the hole if you take off the fender. Be careful not to strip the paint, etc. If you do scratch the paint, get some touch up paint to cover it up, otherwise it will rust!


7. After you have cut the hole in the fender and made sure the side marker fits in there, you need to run the wires that you soldered to the corner wires. This should be pretty simple if you took the fender off, if you didn't then you will have to use some kind of a flexible tool to push the wire through. I used a little tool shown below, not sure what it's name is.






8. After you have ran the wire to the hole in the fender, if you have extra you can cut it off or just stick it in the fender. The wire most likely will lay on the dust cover above the wheel. Solder the wire onto the side marker.




9. Connect the battery and test to make sure the lights are working.

10. If the lights worked fine, install the side markers into the fender and clean up.




NOTE – If you happen to short the ground wire and one of the power wires, you have burned up the Tail Light fuse, replace it and you should be set.

Final Product

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[bj200sx]

nice write up. did you do a manual override on your fog lights?

[Vadim]

Originally Posted by bj200sx

nice write up. did you do a manual override on your fog lights?

Nope I just left the fog lights as is, just made them be turn onable with the corners

[Vadim]

Originally Posted by bj200sx

nice write up. did you do a manual override on your fog lights?

What I meant to say is, I did the Fog Lights Mod

Update coming soon!
With a help of a forum member I was able to get the side markers stay on with the lights, then flash with the turning signals!

[Vadim]

Here is the update, video to come when it gets dark!

Originally Posted by Vadim

UPDATE!
Thanks to a forum member, DC Scotty, I was able to make the side markers stay on with the lights, but when you turn on the blinkers/hazards they would flash too!

The side markers would blink with the turning signals when the lights are off too!

Best of all it's really easy to do.

Basically take the ground wire on the side markers, and instead of hooking it up to the ground wire of the turning signals, hook it up to the turning signal wire (not the constant stay on wire).


The wiring would look something like this:

Drivers Side
Positive Wire to Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Ground wire to Green-Black

Passenger Side
Positive Wire to Red-Blue – This wire keeps the corner always lit.
Ground wire to Green-Yellow – This wire makes the corner blink.

[DC Scotty]

Very kewl...

Your sidemarkers will now blink and stay on with the corners. Both circuits will now use the Corner Floating Ground. A verrry good thing!

[Vadim]

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Originally Posted by DC Scotty

Very kewl...

Your sidemarkers will now blink and stay on with the corners. Both circuits will now use the Corner Floating Ground. A verrry good thing!

Yep they do

Floating ground is pretty cool, now I would like for them to flash with the corners, instead of like a siren, but oh well

[blairellis]

Nice! I had that with my SER with my side marker. I liked it Good job!

[Vadim]

Originally Posted by blairellis

Nice! I had that with my SER with my side marker. I liked it Good job!

Thanks Blair!

[mameluco]

Originally Posted by Vadim

Thanks Blair!

man you have balls for cutting off the fender i would like to do it but i'm afraid of scratching the paint

[Vadim]

Haha yeah but when your car already has bad paint it doesn't hurt as badly

[mameluco]

good point