Parking lights
 

Do our parking lights come on by being grounded or receiving a +12v signal?

I need to know for sure before I try and blow up my board. Thanks!

Re: Parking lights
 

receiving a 12 v signal

stop.. tail. ..turn... sidemarker... are all permanently grounded.

Re: Parking lights
 

Here's a better question; What's the point of having parking lights?

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It's a flashback from a bygone era. Is there a rule somewhere in the highway traffic act as to when to use them?

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I think it's a non-DOT rule that parking lights must be able to be activated w/o the keys in the car. So a car can be parked on a busy street at night and left with the lights on for visibility reasons w/o getting stolen because you had to leave the keys in the ignition.

So, since these cars are sold in Europe/Japan/Canada/Australia/etc, they've got parking light switches, whereas US cars don't bother. Plus, most US cars can have their lights turned on w/o the keys anyway.

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Which lights light up exactly? 'Cause I've got a parking light switch, which lights up when pressed, but to my knowledge it doesn't change anything in the exterior lighting. My car's from the US btw.

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Should just turn on the orange corner markers up front and red tails. One thing I've always loved about Subaru is that the headlights turn off with the key. I've never had an instance of wanting the lights on with the key out. Just seems like a good way to kill a battery. The only problem is when I drive another car at night, I always leave the lights on. Between that and Hill-Holder those are two reasons that I'll always own a Subaru.

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Haha same here, man. I always leave the lights on on my mom or dad's cars when I drive them.