Jay95GXE

Does anyone know how to wire the lights next to the headlights on a 95 to be as bright as the head lights. When you turn the Turn signals on they light up and look great but when the head lights are on without the turn signal on they look very dim. I understand you can do this on a 97 and up. Has anyone figured a way to rewire the 95 and 96?

THANKS

TurDz

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no need to rewire. Its been proven by many 95-96 owners, all you do is shave or file down (or even cut) the top nib on the 1157 bulb. Insert the remaining nib on what used to be the slot for the top nib.

You'll be running the brighter 21w filament inside, really nice white too, even with stock bulbs.

JacksMax

If you haven't read about it here yet, you haven't been looking. Every 10th post here is about making these brighter.

Jack

ZXdude

so you shave down the little 'nipple' on the end of the bulb and it makes it brighter?

Jung918

One of the best ways to learn is by doing it yourself and also learning from your mistakes... But use your common sense...

breaux124

iTrader: (1)

Sorry your wrong.
1157 is a dual filament bulb.

You buy a 1156 which is a single filament (21w) and then shave one of the *****, so it will fit into the 1157 housing.

JacksMax

No, the one on the SIDE. Look at the bulb, see how theres two bumps on each side? The idea is to remove one bump and reinsert the bulb 180 degrees from the normal way. I'll find an old thread and post a link here. We repeat this stuff here ALL the time....

breaux124

iTrader: (1)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 95-96 have the relay that turns the corner light brighter when the turn signal is on.

If you put the bulb in backward, then wouldn't your corner light get dimmer when you turned your signal on?

ZXdude

some how i thought that we were talking about clearance bulbs, not the corners on the bumper.., my mistake

JacksMax

I think we ARE talking about clearance lights. The post that started this thread says "lights next to the headlights". (can we all agree on terms some day?)

Jack

Daniel B. Martin

Yes. One way to do this is to use the manufacturer's nomenclature. Nissan calls the lights adjacent to the headlights Combination Lamps.

JacksMax

Not in 1996 they didn't, ion my '96 owners manual page 7-24 they are called cornering/clearance lights. The ones on the bumper are called the front turn signal, and the ones on the front side are called front side marker lights.

In what year did Nissan call the corner lights combination lights?

Jack

Daniel B. Martin

I found that name in the '99 Maxima factory service manual, page BT-6.

JacksMax

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=36455
http://216.122.219.59/forums/showthr...threadid=35386
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=22310
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=8943

"If you want a better looking clearance light you don't have to "re-wire" them. I just took the aftermarket bulbs that I got and connected the 2 leads on the bulbs so now both the 25W and 5W filiament illuminates. It looks really nice. Plus I didn't have to re-wire anything. I bought Polarg Super White 1157 bulbs (1157 is the only bulb that will fit) at a local performance shop for 8 bucks apiece. It's kind of a ***** to get your hand under the socket to change it...but it is possible. good luck!"

"Guys there is an easier way to do this. I bought a 27w/8w eurolite xenon bulb and filed off the top
*** on the side of the bulb. Simpley insert the bulb backwards and it will light up the 27 instead of the 8.
The light produced is awesome it is like having a headlight coming off the side of the car. I wish I had a pick for
you."

"Does not require any rewiring. Just clip off the little *** and turn the bulb 180 degrees and put it back in.
Be sure to clip off the highest *** on the bulb."

"However, just putting the bulb in backwards does the same thing. Shave the little **** of the bulb and place it in backwards."

"If you look at the Polarg bulb there is the actual bulb (the glass part) and the bottom half of the unit is silver (Im not sure what its technical name is)
There are two **** on the side of the bulb that hold the bulb in the socket. One *** is higher than the other and these **** corresopond to the slots on the socket on your Max.
Just take a piece of sand paper and sand off the top *** so that it becomes flush. Do not sand off the lower one or you will have probs.
Then take the bulb and when you are inserting it back into the socket your max, situate the bulb so that the low *** slides in the slot for the high ***, thus backwards."

"First of all, do a search and you'll find it. I'll tell you though. U can do 2 things:
1) (easy) go buy some 1156 bulbs and file the nipple on the bottom of it down a little until it will fit in place of the stock 1157 that is in the clearance light (the light that gets bright with the signal); replace and it is always bright.
2) (harder) rewire the light so that the only connection there is the 27 watt that is on when u turn on the turn signal.
Do a search to find more"

"I did a real quick and cheap way to rewire my corners to run at 22w intead of 5w with hyperwhites. No soldering needed. It had something to do with masking tape and aluminum foil. I just figured out which metal tab on the bulb produces the 5w and which one produces the 22w. I then covered the 5w tab with a small piece of tape and then taped a little piece of foil to run from on top of that tape to the other tab (the 22w one). SO...when you put the bulb back in, the foil redirects the current to the 22w tab. Hard to explain, but if you don't want to solder or you don't have soldering iron, this "ghetto" method is pretty smart."

if you'd rather rewire them, look here:
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~cheston/corners.html

There's more than this about it on the org, but this is what I have found so far.

Jack

breaux124

iTrader: (1)

You don't want both of the filaments in the bulb on at the same time, cause then you'll have 27w+8w = 35w. That'll be alot of current and they'll be REALLY bright - too bright.

I actually think that the 27w is too bright, that's why it's a good idea to consider Polarg's M-14. It's a 1157 with 5w/22w. So with the rewire it's only 22w instead of 27w.

j_bryan

iTrader: (1)

I thought these pictures might help illustrate. If you look closely at the 1156 bulb, both prongs are at the same level on each side but on an 1157 bulb there is one side that is high and one that is low.

good luck.