Euro tails wiring (now with pics and no red X's)
, it left me working hard to find the wires I needed and get it all done. I figured it out, and thought I'd help out the others that may go through the exact same thing.Lets get a few things out of the way first. You'll need:
- Euro tails, duh!
- I used 18 gauge wire, and it is better to have 2-3 different colours
- Test light or Voltmeter
- Wire quicksplices/ T's
- Butt connectors (or solder your connections)
- Time. And slurpees....mmm.....slurpees
some cars may have different wire colours or setups, please read through the instructions completely and compare to your car before you do any cutting!! And as always, confirm sources of electric signal with the test light or voltmeter before you cut and splice. I'm not responsible if you do not do this correctly, but I will try to help you out if I can.
Anyways, lets begin. I had a bit of the hard work already done due to the fact that my car is gutted already, so I did not have to remove any panels or anything. You will more than likely need to, and some of your wiring locations may be different from mine. As long as the end result is the same, who cares?
Also, I will discuss the reverse wire at the end for those that feel they need to run it. 
1. With the taillights off the vehicle, find the blue (one side is blue, other blue w/red stripe) wires coming out of the top bulb sockets. cut them with enough room to connect more wire to them later. Go ahead and cap the wire not connected to the socket, as it will no longer be used.
2. At the junction units on the driver side quarterpanel, coming out of the grey junction box towards the front of the car is a green wire w/yellow stripe. This will be your new brake wire (please confirm with test light/voltmeter as always). Put 2 wire splices/T's on ths wire, and run one wire to the left tail light, and one to the right tail light.
Solder/connect them to the open blue wire coming out of the bulb holders on each side. You should now have just brakes on the top, and no turn signals. They should also be on when your lights are on, just like they used to be.
(I know the wire looks greenish in that picture, but mine is actually blue. So
)3. Back up at the taillights, cut the green reverse wires (bottom bulb) on both sides. Go ahead and cap off the part not connected to the light socket, you will no longer be using this portion of the wiring.
4. At the junction units on the driver side quarterpanel, coming out of the blue junction box is the same colour green/black as you just cut from up near the lights. Cut this wire before it enters the junction box. Cap the part coming out of the junction box as it will no longer be used. The other part of it is now your reverse light wire, and will be discussed later in this DIY guide. It should look something like this:
5. So now the fun part. most places to get your turn signals from stay on whenever the lights are on, and you do not want that (or at least I didn't and I'm assuming you do not.
) All is not lost! The front Grille lights are the answer. The front grill should have 3 wires (much like the top tail socket): 1 is a ground, 1 is the lights on, and the other is the turns. The colours on the wires are similar, so use your test light or voltmeter to determine which one is which. 6. Once you have discovered which one is your turn signals, use more T's/ wire splices to add a wire to each one. These will be your new turn signal wires for your tails, so make sure the wire is long enough to route to the tails!! I'll leave it up to you to find the best way to get the wires from your front grille to your tails, being as that my car was gutted I had it easy.
7. Hope you had fun getting those wires back to teh tails, I know I did.
Now you just need to connect/solder these wires into the old green/black wires off of the lower bulb sockets at the tails. This will make it so that you have turn signals and hazards on the lower portion of the lights now instead of the old reverse lights. 8. Run a test of all your wiring. Turn your lights on, use the hazards, and both turn signals to make sure that both sides are now wired up correctly. Your now euro!
9. No, I did not forget those of you worried about being legal and having a reverse light.
As the other DIY guide said, you can run the wire we have down under the car (or wherever you want your reverse light really) and connect it to whatever new lightsource you will be using for a reverse light. If you need a handy negative terminal, there is one under the hatch striker and more to the driver side. You may need to bring up more plastic/interior pieces to get to it. Wire the light up correctly, and you should now have a reverse light as well as the euro tail look. If anyone still needs more pictures or help, I'd be happy to try and help out the best I can.
I just hope people do read through it and test light/ voltmeter stuff before they just jump in cutting.
Re: Euro tails wiring (now with pics and no red X's)
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