370z 2013 LED Day lights Kit
 

Hi Guys,

I have a 370z 2013, which is equipped with daytime LED Lights, which are on during the day, and off during the night, the LED day lights cannot be turned on along with the normal headlights, so I came across this Kit from ijdmtoy.com, which enables the LED day lights to be on with the normal headlights and there is a clear installation guide on the second link

I am not an expert in this subject, and I'm looking for some advice if this is OK to be done on a car and if anyone knows about any disadvantages for doing this I would appreciate the feedback :)

Kit:
Nissan 370Z LED Daytime Running Light Enable Kit with Parking Lights

Installation Guide:
Installation Guide for Nissan 370Z LED DRL Enable Kit

Cheers!

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Sub for interest! Might even pick it up for a try... $25 bucks,....

So all you need is 2 wire taps and a length of wire. They threw in 2 led's and called it a kit.
Thanks for posting the instructions though. I will be splicing mine together this weekend.

Subbed, I'm interested in knowing the benefits of the DTR lights being on with the headlights.

Just the coolness factor.. the HID headlights will overpower the led's

Has anyone tried this yet?

I may be wrong but if you can successfully do this and you are splicing into the parking light wires, the daytime running LEDs will not turn on during the day if you use the Auto heads lights function. They will only turn on if u manually switch it.

I would think the other DIY is better where you connect both harnesses together for the LED daytime running Lights and run a new power wire into the cabin from the passenger side and wire it to a 12 volt connection i.e cigarette lighter.

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Peaks my interest for sure

I'm 95% sure you don't need a "kit" to pull this off. You should just need a $0.10 Radio Shack diode.

If someone can get me the wiring diagram for the main harness connector on a 2013, I can write it up and we can collab on a DIY. If it's setup like I think it is, you can do this in 5 min, no splicing, 100% reversible, for less than a dollar.

I am a salesperson at a Nissan dealership. I talked to the tech in the back that deals with all the electrical stuff. He said it wont be that easy. Something about the LED running lights dont draw alot of power so they are probably connectly directly to the BCM or something....whatever he said ...I am sure he knows what he is talking about b/c it went straight over my head. haha

He said hes gonna try hooking my 370z up to the computer and see if theres a way he can reprogram the computer to make the LED's turn on during the night before he helps me attempt anything involving cutting, tapping, or breaking. lol

Doubtful. They will still be fused and there will still be a signal wire. Now I could see them using the signal wire to power the LEDS, but a diode at the main harness connector would still be the most simple, least invasive solution.

If his "reprogramming" attempt doesnt work, I willl ask him if he can get me the wiring diagram so I can give it to you. Everything you said went over my head too. lol

it's only MY taste so don't get affended
 

I bought a 2012 because I don't care for the entire front of the 13's/14's.

A diode only allows electricity to flow one way. So you take one similar to the middle one in the picture below with longer leads and wedge it in the pin on the harness "from" the low beam pin "to" the DRL pin. If you want them on with highs as well, just run a second diode from the high beams. I did this on my truck and when the high beams are on, so are the lows, fogs, parking, and DRLs. It's like the 4th of July.

http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles...s/diode_01.jpg

You're not cuttting the original power to the led's so they should still turn on automatically. What looks like will happen is without a diode, the led's, when on, will also power the drl's, and visa versa. .

I plan on tieing the light together after c&c this weekend. I'll post up the outcome

Here is the Daytime Running Lights System wiring diagram. I hope this is what you were looking for M3chhawk.

I might be able to work with this. Need a 2013 relay/fuse diagram for the box under the hood.

Any joys with this idea?

Anyone done this yet? I bought the kit, but mainly for the LEDs. I had bought different LEDs earlier but they turned out two bluish for my taste. The ones that came with the kit match the DRLs dead on in color (in my opinion). Guess I'll have to do it. Anyone?

So I did what the installation guide said and it works to some degree. The DRLs do turn on when the headlights are on, but if the car is off and you turn it on and just release the e-break, the DRLs turn on along with the parking, rear tail and the license plate lights. That was not what I had in mind, so I ended up taking it off. Don't know if it's the way my car is wired, but in the iJDMtoy page it doesn't mention anything about the rear tail lights and the license plates lights turning on.

Nope thats the way it will work without the diode. When the headlights are on it will use the running light circuit to power the leds. If you turn on the leds only without the diode it will also feed to rest of the running light on the same circuit. Putting the diode on the power line to the leds will prevent the electricity from feeding out, only in, if that makes sense. .


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You lost me Roadster. I was explaining what happened to me after installing the iJDMtoy kit (the two quick splices with the wire). Anyway I think I'll leave it stock for now.

Did his kit come with the diodes?

You mind sending a picture of the instructions for the splicing?

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The kit comes with two LED bulbs (that match the DRLs in color perfectly), two quick splices and a piece of cable. In the first post is a link to the installation page, but basically all you have to do is splice the green wire from the parking lights to the red wire from the DRLs. But as I found out it doesn't quite work right. Here's a pic of the kit.

Ok so he doesn't include and diodes, that's why all the lights come on when just the LED's are on

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So, if anyone has a better idea to make the DRLs come on with the headlights but still keeping the stock function of lowering the e-break and only the DRLs to come on would be great.

So, my parking lights stopped working today. I'm gonna check if the positive cable that I spliced got damaged a lot, because not even the small orange lights on the side turn on.

I just cut the OEM wires for the LEDs, grounded the grounds and ran the powers to the fuse box to a switched 12v source running off a 10 amp fuse. 6 months, 6000 miles without issue.

Anyone know where, if any, is the fuse for the parking lights? The rears come on fine but the parking lights and the small orange light to the side doesn't come on.

Left foot well drivers side or behind the battery... Lol that's a fun one to get to!

It's likely left foot well

Ok, here's the whole story to see if anyone of you guys can help me pin point the problem.
I went to put on the DRL enable kit from iJDMToy, I quickspliced the green (positive) wire from the parking lights to the red wire that goes to the DRLs.
Worked great until I noticed that when I lowered the e-brake the DRLs turned on along with the parking, rear and license plate lights. So I thought maybe I spliced the wrong red wire, so I took that splice of and quickspliced the other red wire that goes to a relay (I think) and the car started beeping and the small orange light near the parking lights and in the rear turned on. So I quickly took the splice off. I put some electrical tape to protect the area were the wire was exposed in both the red wires and the green wire from the parking lights and just left the LEDs that came with the kit on. Everything turned on like stock, until yesterday. Now the parking lights and the orange small light beside them don't turn on, but all other lights, rear and DRLs turn on.
Checked all the fuses and everything seems good. Don't know if I damaged the relay (or whatever that thing is thats connected to the other red wire).

Red arrow is the red wire that goes to the relay (I think it's a relay).
The blue arrow goes to the plug to the DRLs.

And you pulled the battery and checked those fuses? I blew one and lost tail lights, radio lights and something else. No idea they would bury it like that.

I checked the ones in the foot well and to the side of the battery. Is there another fuse box under the battery?

Check the fuse box near the battery again. The FSM says it's there. Fuse #52, 10A

No that's all. Did you pull them and check?

Yeap pulled and checked. But I didn't check the ones on the side of the battery. I thought those were the ones in the small black box which you can access by just opening the lid of the battery cover. I saw some pics that there's another fuse box by the battery but under the battery cover, by removing the clips.