Adding integrated turn signals?

[G-Oil Guy]

I did some searching on the forum and the web but haven’t found good answer for this:

is it possible to add integrated turn signals to the truck if it did not come with it? I was entertaining purchasing OEM mirror assemblies with the turn signals but before I did that I was hoping to see if anyone had done it. In my simple brain I’d imagine, in a perfect world, the wiring harnesses are all the same and if you have the integrated signals then your specific wire in the plug is there and if not it’s not there (I’m assuming everything comes through the wiring harness for the power mirrors.).

anyone do this?

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[BLtheP]

Unfortunately the trucks that come without turn signal mirrors have part of the necessary wiring but it doesn’t run all the way back to where it needs to, so they are non functional. You’d want to splice wiring into the combination meter turn signal outputs to do it like stock does.

 

[G-Oil Guy]

Unfortunately the trucks that come without turn signal mirrors have part of the necessary wiring but it doesn’t run all the way back to where it needs to, so they are non functional. You’d want to splice wiring into the combination meter turn signal outputs to do it like stock does.

Thanks for the reply. Lame that it doesn’t exist to make it truly plug and play.

That being said, can you expand a little more on “splice into the combination meter turn signal outputs”

never heard that term before.

 

[BLtheP]

Thanks for the reply. Lame that it doesn’t exist to make it truly plug and play.

That being said, can you expand a little more on “splice into the combination meter turn signal outputs”

never heard that term before.

The combination meter is just the instrument cluster. It is what the OEMs have been calling the instrument cluster pretty much universally since probably 2005 or so. I guess it's because each gauge is a "meter" and they are all combined into the cluster.

Anyways, for whatever reason, Toyota makes the combo meter the brain for the turn signals. They start there after being informed to turn on by the turn signal switch. The output wires that go to the front and rear turn signals originate from the combination meter. If equipped with mirror turn signals, the factory instrument panel dash harness has splices on each of those wires to send those wires to each front door harness. On models without the mirror signals, they don't. So to do it like stock, you'd need to go up to the combo meter wiring, find the right and left front turn signal outputs, splice on your own wires and run them out to each door.

I want to do it eventually, but don't know when I may ever get around to it.

 

[G-Oil Guy]

The combination meter is just the instrument cluster. It is what the OEMs have been calling the instrument cluster pretty much universally since probably 2005 or so. I guess it's because each gauge is a "meter" and they are all combined into the cluster.

Anyways, for whatever reason, Toyota makes the combo meter the brain for the turn signals. They start there after being informed to turn on by the turn signal switch. The output wires that go to the front and rear turn signals originate from the combination meter. If equipped with mirror turn signals, the factory instrument panel dash harness has splices on each of those wires to send those wires to each front door harness. On models without the mirror signals, they don't. So to do it like stock, you'd need to go up to the combo meter wiring, find the right and left front turn signal outputs, splice on your own wires and run them out to each door.

I want to do it eventually, but don't know when I may ever get around to it.

Hell I wonder if it would be easier to just tap the signal wires in the engine bay lol

but thank you for all of the information.

 

[BLtheP]

Hell I wonder if it would be easier to just tap the signal wires in the engine bay lol

but thank you for all of the information.

Could be, if you don’t mind poking a hole in a grommet or similar to get out there. They would definitely do the job.

I sort of want to do mine just like the factory would have, but I haven’t developed the energy required to tear apart the dash enough to do it yet. I kinda like that this is the one truck I haven’t yet ripped the dash apart on.

 

[G-Oil Guy]

Could be, if you don’t mind poking a hole in a grommet or similar to get out there. They would definitely do the job.

I sort of want to do mine just like the factory would have, but I haven’t developed the energy required to tear apart the dash enough to do it yet. I kinda like that this is the one truck I haven’t yet ripped the dash apart on.

Right there with you. I’d like to avoid tearing into the dash if possible. Which is why I was hoping the plug was there and just not tied into.

Love it. You can plug and play 4Runner TRD Pro headlights no problem but, how dare you want to plug and play integrated turn signals lol

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