Cornering lights?

[BlueBuick]

Hi all, I'm kinda new. I'm mostly a lurker. Anyways, I am 17 and I drive a blue 2000 Buick LeSabre. Love the car! Very smooth.
I have a question about the headlights, does it come with cornering lights? If you look at the picture:

(Not my car. Credit goes to Saabkyle04, LLC. for the picture.
There are the, from left to right, highs, lows, ???, turn signal/parking light. I want to know what that area of the headlight is for... I cannot get it to come on on either side of the car, so if it's cornering lights, how do I get them to come on?

 

[HotZ28]

If you actually have cornering lights, they only come on with the turn signal (left/right) Not all have this option.

 

[journeyforce]

From what I read only the Limited versions have this feature. The Customs don't. Sadly I cannot say if this is fact or not since all the Limiteds I have seen in the local junk yards ether have the headlights removed or there are smashed up due to a crash

 

[BlueBuick]

Alright, thanks, a feature on the Limited. I did forget to mention mine's a Custom.

I did a search, and couldn't find anything. Is there any mod or procedure that I could do to get them to come on? Obviously step 1 is to get some bulbs... lol

 

[1380Ken]

I have cornering lights on my 2005 Limitted

 

[2k2cse]

Alright, thanks, a feature on the Limited. I did forget to mention mine's a Custom.

I did a search, and couldn't find anything. Is there any mod or procedure that I could do to get them to come on? Obviously step 1 is to get some bulbs... lol

I don't think its going to be very easy. I know someone with a 99 Century that don't have the cornering lights, and there isn't even a socket for the bulbs in the light. Pull your headlight out first, and see if you do have a socket/wires in there.

 

[redmondjp]

I have a 2001 Custom and have replaced both my headlight assemblies. The Custom headlights do not have a provision for the cornering light bulbs as has been mentioned - there are just chromed reflectors in those spots. You would have to purchase headlights from a Limited ($$$) and THEN also do the wiring.

I haven't torn into my wiring to see what it would take, but I quickly determined that it's not worth my time to try to add this feature.

The car that I grew up in (1971 LTD Brougham) had cornering lights on it. The only time that they were really useful is out in the sticks when you're trying to find a turn off of the main road and there is zero road or street lighting. In most urban situations, there is enough ambient light that they don't provide much added value.

 

[BlueBuick]

Alright, thanks all. If it is going to require whole new headlight assemblies then yeah it's probably not worth the time and money... I mainly wanted it for looks anyway... A big car with lots of lights, seemed like a good idea. (I don't mean ghetto'ed out lights btw)