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you have to use a relay. the ground is what activates the tail light. with a relay you can use the ground to activate the relay on the normally open pole and the normally closed relay will activate the tail light. feel free to call me jason if you want me to walk you through it.

 

RZR use a hot switched return to ground, rather than how a car normal works with a switch that sends hot to lights.

If I remeber right red yellow is the hot from the fuse box and orange is switched return for tail lights

 

this is why led's dont work i think the guy that did the wireing was dislexic

 

NOPE, he just wanted to create a challenge for the rest of us:rofl3::rofl3:

 

Just be thankful he wasn't English or you would of had steering wheel on the other side.

 

I will use the relay to get it to work. The LED tails are SO bright.

 

Got it working thanks to STRRACERX

 

I'm adding more tail lights as well, And I'm a tard when it comes to wiring. What type of relay do I use? Will they know what I need at the auto parts store?

 

get a relay that has both open and closed poles. ill see if i can do a crude diagram on paint and post that sucka on here.

 

Go to O'Reilly's or AutoZone and get a standard auto relay. $5 or so. They also sell them at Radio Shack. Here is the wiring. The 4 wires going back to tail lights are:
brown - ground
blue - work light positive
orange and red/yellow for tail and brake.

The relay has numbers on the bottom side and here is how to wire it:
relay 85 and 30 tied together to red/yellow
relay 87
relay 87a to red
relay 86 to orange
relay 85 to brown for ground

This will make the tail lights come on with the key on and/or headlights. Then the brake pedal will activate the new brake lights


Here is a link that explains the relays and has pictures and wiring diagrams.
Basic Wiring - Custom Airbrush Work and Radical Customizing

 

Go to O'Reilly's or AutoZone and get a standard auto relay. $5 or so. They also sell them at Radio Shack. Here is the wiring. The 4 wires going back to tail lights are:
brown - ground
blue - work light positive
orange and red/yellow for tail and brake.

The relay has numbers on the bottom side and here is how to wire it:
relay 85 and 30 tied together to red/yellow
relay 87
relay 87a to red
relay 86 to orange
relay 85 to brown for ground

This will make the tail lights come on with the key on and/or headlights. Then the brake pedal will activate the new brake lights




Here is a link that explains the relays and has pictures and wiring diagrams.
Basic Wiring - Custom Airbrush Work and Radical Customizing

could you check this, think there might be problem

 

Thanks guys. I love this forum chit.

 

Sure makes finding out about fixes and products SO much easier doesn't it!

 

Go to O'Reilly's or AutoZone and get a standard auto relay. $5 or so. They also sell them at Radio Shack. Here is the wiring. The 4 wires going back to tail lights are:
brown - ground
blue - work light positive
orange and red/yellow for tail and brake.

The relay has numbers on the bottom side and here is how to wire it:
relay 85 and 30 tied together to red/yellow
relay 87
relay 87a to red
relay 86 to orange


This will make the tail lights come on with the key on and/or headlights. Then the brake pedal will activate the new brake lights


Here is a link that explains the relays and has pictures and wiring diagrams.
Basic Wiring - Custom Airbrush Work and Radical Customizing

Sorry correction made.

 

Man, I spent time drawing diagram too and Jason beat me to it.

 

thanks, thats mobetter

I was wondering why the leds didn't work, now I know, Polaris likes to screw with my head.

 

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Go to O'Reilly's or AutoZone and get a standard auto relay. $5 or so. They also sell them at Radio Shack. Here is the wiring. The 4 wires going back to tail lights are:
brown - ground
blue - work light positive
orange and red/yellow for tail and brake.

The relay has numbers on the bottom side and here is how to wire it:
relay 85 and 30 tied together to red/yellow
relay 87
relay 87a to red
relay 86 to orange


This will make the tail lights come on with the key on and/or headlights. Then the brake pedal will activate the new brake lights


Here is a link that explains the relays and has pictures and wiring diagrams.
Basic Wiring - Custom Airbrush Work and Radical Customizing

I hope this one is correct. I think I had the brake and tail wires switched.

 

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Go to O'Reilly's or AutoZone and get a standard auto relay. $5 or so. They also sell them at Radio Shack. Here is the wiring. The 4 wires going back to tail lights are:
brown - ground
blue - work light positive
orange and red/yellow for tail and brake.

The relay has numbers on the bottom side and here is how to wire it:
relay 85 and 30 tied together to red/yellow
relay 87
relay 87a to red
relay 86 to orange


This will make the tail lights come on with the key on and/or headlights. Then the brake pedal will activate the new brake lights

I hate to be a tard but you just "spliced" into these lines to run the relay. This keep the tail lights functioning as normal, right...?
Thanks

 

HawkEng
In your diagram you show a Blue to work light. What does it operate?

 

the blue wire is for the "backup" light on the older models, Polaris decided it wasn't needed, so they eliminated the white light to the rear that was operated by a seperate switch.
aren't you glad Polaris is watching out for you?

thank you Jason, the pdf made more sense.

 

Can this blue wire be used for installing backup lights or is it useless know.

 

it ain't even there, think that was part of their cost cutting effort, old with "work" light had the blue wire and 4 prong plug, the new and improved with no light has no blue wire and a 3 prong plug.
you can order the parts to change to a lense with the work light, but you need the connectors to plug into the bulb base, if you can find the connectors you can run your own wires to operate the bulbs, good luck with finding them, OR you can pay Polaris $46 for the wire harness that goes to the tailights with the blue wire. guess how I know how much it is.

 

Pictures are worth a thousand words as they say.

 

Any chance of gettig a picture of the relay installed?

 

hey guys, i'd like to be able to kill my tail lights and brake lights. we are all outlaws in jersey, and sometimes you have to run. any help with wiring diagram would be appreciated. i have a 09 rzr. just bought it, and dont know too much about it . thanks again, rich

 

pull the plug

 

Surprisingly a great easy plan!

Simple minds think alike.

Tom

 

thaks guys , you're the best

 

yes, works as designed plus the new tail lights. I solder all connections to keep water from causing a problem later.

 

thanks steve, i think i know what to do now. i read another thread, that the rzr tail lights work off the ground, not like a car where positive is sent to the tail and brake lights. i should be able to tap into the ground and install a switch to break it and that should kill the lights. thanks again , rich