by cracker39 » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:40 pm
Dale, you're probably right about all that. I tapped into the truck wiring just like I've done in the past, right where the wires go to the bulbs. But the trucks keep getting more sophisticated with the computer systems and this is the first one I've owned that seems to have a separate trailer system for turn signals. When the flashers are on, I hear the clicking sound, but under the dash, there doesn't seem to be an actual flasher relay...or at least, nothing I recognize as a flasher relay...no round aluminum object.
I do think that the turn signal system for the truck turn signal lights was designed to be used just for just that, and not to support the drain of additional lights. Tomorrow, I'll take another look for a flasher relay and if I don't see one, I'll go for the dealer connector. I found one online, but it still cost $66, so I wouldn't save anything after paying shipping. Besides, if I get it from the dealer, I have support if it doesn't work right.
The truck is a 2006 Nissan Frontier. You don't find as many products, especially electrical, online for Nissan as you do the other trucks, and that includes Toyota. I even had to have a local auto parts store order my VentShade bug deflector and window vent visors. They had them in the store for Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, GMC, but not for Nissan.