# Installing Daytime Running Lights on U.S. 1997 s14

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**Category:** SON240sx Automotive\
**Created:** [March 19, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/installing-daytime-running-lights-on-u-s-1997-s14/80745 "2004-03-19T17:10:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/installing-daytime-running-lights-on-u-s-1997-s14/80745/1 "2004-03-19T17:10:21Z")

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I’m moving up to Toronto from Florida in a couple of months. My 1997 240sx SE needs to have daytime running lights installed within the first 45 days after I arrive.

None of the dealers down here seem to know how to do the wiring properly for this. I don’t want the entire lighting system to come on during the day – just the high beams at a lower intensity, as the Canadian models do.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![MRWmotorsports](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@MRWmotorsports](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MRWmotorsports)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/installing-daytime-running-lights-on-u-s-1997-s14/80745/2 "2004-03-20T11:01:19Z")

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> [@hayw00d](#):
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> I’m moving up to Toronto from Florida in a couple of months. My 1997 240sx SE needs to have daytime running lights installed within the first 45 days after I arrive.
> 
> None of the dealers down here seem to know how to do the wiring properly for this. I don’t want the entire lighting system to come on during the day – just the high beams at a lower intensity, as the Canadian models do.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

That’s a dammed good question… I’ve wondered about this as I was supposed to do one. I haven’t looked at the FSM, butthat would be teh best place to start. See how Nissan did it. I always like to convert if possible, rather than re-invent. But sometimes you can’t find the right parst, or it involves too many components or too much work. Maybe this requires a completely different light harness…

The way I was considering doing this was to simply put a igniton on power source directly to the low beams. As far as I know they are on a realy so it won’t/shouldn’t feed the rest of the lighting system… although I could easily be wrong. They would be at full strength, but I’m sure a resistor would cure that… someone nwho’s into electronice might comment on that.

I hope this helps, if I get chance I’ll try to look this up in FSM, closest I have is a '95 one, but that should be similar.

-Martin.

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**Author:** ![m\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@m\_m](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/m_m)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/installing-daytime-running-lights-on-u-s-1997-s14/80745/3 "2004-03-20T17:34:38Z")

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Link to FSM downloads.

[http://forums.son240sx.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2340](http://forums.son240sx.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2340)

…should help.