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ShadowGT
04-09-2009, 06:25 PM
My driver side parking light doesn't come on. The blinker works fine but that same parking light doesn't illuminate when switched on.
The passenger side blinks like normal, comes on with the car lights and keyless entry, just the driver side stays off until I turn on the blinker.

Makes sense?
I changed the bulbs, still doesn't fix the problem.

1-3-2-4
04-09-2009, 06:54 PM
I don't know if my issue is related but I noticed I have the same issue.. my parking lights in the front don't come on when turned on but the turn signal works fine for both passenger and driver side.

ShadowGT
04-10-2009, 01:40 AM
For what it's worth..
That same parking light doesn't come on when I turn on the weird switch on top of the steering column, but the other does.
So I guess that eliminates a switch circuit.. doesn't come on when activated on the blinker stalk, doesn't come on with the keyless entry or that switch on the top of the steering column.

The bulb has two filaments.. I reckon that one is the blinker and the other is the parking light all in the same bulb.
No matter what bulb I put in there, the normal illumination doesn't work. That rules out the bulb.
The fact that the bulb even comes on rules out the socket itself.
I figured all the interior controls that turn on the external lights including the circuit from the keyless entry all come together somewhere in the dash.. the fact that nothing turns that light on makes me think that the circuit is intact at least from the dashboard side.

I don't know. I guess I'm going to have to trace the wire back from the light towards the firewall and see what I find.
Is there a central relay or something?

ShadowGT
04-13-2009, 11:25 PM
Sorry for the double post.. forgive me.

Found the problem. Removed the light fixture and bulb. Tested the socket with a multimeter. Found that the blinker was giving an alternating current so that prong was for the blinker. The other socket prong showed no current.
That is until I unintentionally twisted the plug in a direction while testing it and current returned.

Put the bulb back in and found that the male power plug has a loose wire. Not sure how to fix a loose wire in that brown plug, but seems like bending it backwards makes better contact and the light works.. at least for now.

1-3-2-4
04-14-2009, 10:33 AM
hmmm I will have to check this out this weekend.

ShadowGT
04-15-2009, 12:51 AM
hmmm I will have to check this out this weekend.

It was really the man's way of fixing things.
Step 1: Shake the shit out of it.
Does it work yet?
Step 2. Duct tape the crap out if it.

In reality, I believe the power pin in the brown plug that mates to the bulb socket is loose. Hence bending it to push the pin back in and keep it in place.