Originally Posted by GabrlJeep

I'm really interested in seeing what you did here. More importantly how. I thought I was SOL when it came for his issue because of how the lights are mounted and that the only fix would be on the wiring part internally
I'd appreciate any feedback here and thank you in advance.

Originally Posted by GabrlJeep

No worries. I'm just grateful for the help.
I have a 2010 JKU

Originally Posted by jedg

Okay, I went out, looked at what I have and took some photos. And now I remember. SO, here's the problem as I figured it out then. Might not be true, but it's what I understood at the time and it works. If you look at the photo with the wires, you will see that I'm not using the side marker plug (in the circle) and I've wired my lights into the front turn signal/parking lamp. That's a three-wire system. The factory side marker is a two-wire. Using the front allowed me to have a side marker and a turn signal. The front bulb has two filaments in it, one on the parking lamp circuit and one on the turn-signal circuit. I think. I still don't understand why the LEDs from bushwhacker didn't work, but they didn't. They finally quit working completely (I was in a torrential rain storm and they didn't survive that) so I took them off. That was a trick without taking the fenders off. I then used the new lights (seen in the other photo) and wired one to be a side marker and one to be a turn signal. So having the two LEDs effectively gives me a two filament approach. I can't claim that anything I've said holds water other than it works. <img src="https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=631751"/><img src="https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=631752"/>

Originally Posted by ShutterBug

Well, I think I got this all wrong. The fender lights only come on as a marker light and will blink ONLY when the parking lights are on. If they are NOT on, then it does nothing. For some reason, I though I had this figured out. It's been such a long time since I looked at this. I'm going to have to look at this again and figure out a simple circuit to make this work. Can't be that hard. Sorry for the confusion.

Originally Posted by 14Sport

I'm not familiar with the blinker mod but I ASSUME (lol) that you are tapping the blinker positive and running it to the LED feed on the flares? If so, then the problem is probably that the flares get power when the control stalk is moved to the first position or beyond as part of OEM. When the stalk is in the off position there is no power to the flares so the feed from the blinkers is effective. But when the parking lamps (or beyond) are on, hitting the blinker simply adds another power feed to the flares which will do nothing but change the load on each wire. I don't know how that would cause the flares to blink without having two lights on the flares. You should be able to throw a relay and resistor on each side to get it to work for the most part though...or add a second light or dual filament light.

Originally Posted by GabrlJeep

Thanks 14sport. Do you think a relay would resolve this issue? If so can you elaborate on how to make that work. I imagine it would be placed by the blinker on the front grille since I can't access the flare light directly now that the flare is installed.
I appreciate the help.

Originally Posted by 14Sport

Okay so bench test complete...

You can put the resistor on whichever circuit you prefer to be dimmer, the directional or marker. I put it on the marker figuring you have them on usually in low light conditions so it will appear brighter anyway. The blinker then has full illumination even during the day.