Headlight Upgrades
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I did the hellas years ago via Daniels recommendations. I did not do his harness though. I used Osram bulbs. I can see great. I get flashed allot, then I hit high beams, and they realize it was my low beams.
My headlights are properly adjusted..
One thing to remember is the headlights were designed to spin those light plastic headlights. When I put the heavier ones in, I stripped the gears. Chance, accident/? No idea. So, I pinned the new bronze gears to the rod holding it. It will not be an issue anymore..
My headlights are properly adjusted..
One thing to remember is the headlights were designed to spin those light plastic headlights. When I put the heavier ones in, I stripped the gears. Chance, accident/? No idea. So, I pinned the new bronze gears to the rod holding it. It will not be an issue anymore..
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From: Hartford WI
Team Owner
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 28,466
Likes: 3,288
From: Hartford WI
I did the hellas years ago via Daniels recommendations. I did not do his harness though. I used Osram bulbs. I can see great. I get flashed allot, then I hit high beams, and they realize it was my low beams.
My headlights are properly adjusted..
One thing to remember is the headlights were designed to spin those light plastic headlights. When I put the heavier ones in, I stripped the gears. Chance, accident/? No idea. So, I pinned the new bronze gears to the rod holding it. It will not be an issue anymore..
My headlights are properly adjusted..
One thing to remember is the headlights were designed to spin those light plastic headlights. When I put the heavier ones in, I stripped the gears. Chance, accident/? No idea. So, I pinned the new bronze gears to the rod holding it. It will not be an issue anymore..
Drifting
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From: Orange, CA
I got a set of Genssi and used THIS to make the LED work without cutting, splicing, etc.
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Oh, actually, that's a good point. I forgot to mention that if you swap to LED headlights, it will cause your foglights to no longer work. You need to make a single modification to the fog light relay under the passenger dash (or, as aklim posted, put in a load resistor on the high beam circuit). I don't like adding load resistors because that increases current draw, which just ends up as heat. I swapped LEDs to drop current on purpose.
Last edited by Theman5; May 15, 2020 at 11:20 PM.
Drifting
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From: Orange, CA
LED fog lights work perfectly fine on their own.
But if you install LED headlights, there isn't enough resistive load to pull the fog light relay ground low, so it floats and causes the circuit to malfunction (fog lights won't work properly, high beam indicator on your dash will glow, etc). As noted above you can either add a resistive load to pull down the circuit (but this draws additional current and wastes it as heat), or you can cut the light green wire coming out of the fog light relay and connect it directly to chassis ground (what I did).
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From: Katy Texas
It applies to any year that had the functionality where turning the high beams on would turn the fog lights off. It does this by having the ground for the fog light relay pass through the high beam filaments. That way if the high beams are energized, then both sides of the fog light relay would have 12V across them, meaning the relay would turn off.
LED fog lights work perfectly fine on their own.
But if you install LED headlights, there isn't enough resistive load to pull the fog light relay ground low, so it floats and causes the circuit to malfunction (fog lights won't work properly, high beam indicator on your dash will glow, etc). As noted above you can either add a resistive load to pull down the circuit (but this draws additional current and wastes it as heat), or you can cut the light green wire coming out of the fog light relay and connect it directly to chassis ground (what I did).
LED fog lights work perfectly fine on their own.
But if you install LED headlights, there isn't enough resistive load to pull the fog light relay ground low, so it floats and causes the circuit to malfunction (fog lights won't work properly, high beam indicator on your dash will glow, etc). As noted above you can either add a resistive load to pull down the circuit (but this draws additional current and wastes it as heat), or you can cut the light green wire coming out of the fog light relay and connect it directly to chassis ground (what I did).
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It applies to any year that had the functionality where turning the high beams on would turn the fog lights off. It does this by having the ground for the fog light relay pass through the high beam filaments. That way if the high beams are energized, then both sides of the fog light relay would have 12V across them, meaning the relay would turn off.
LED fog lights work perfectly fine on their own.
But if you install LED headlights, there isn't enough resistive load to pull the fog light relay ground low, so it floats and causes the circuit to malfunction (fog lights won't work properly, high beam indicator on your dash will glow, etc). As noted above you can either add a resistive load to pull down the circuit (but this draws additional current and wastes it as heat), or you can cut the light green wire coming out of the fog light relay and connect it directly to chassis ground (what I did).
LED fog lights work perfectly fine on their own.
But if you install LED headlights, there isn't enough resistive load to pull the fog light relay ground low, so it floats and causes the circuit to malfunction (fog lights won't work properly, high beam indicator on your dash will glow, etc). As noted above you can either add a resistive load to pull down the circuit (but this draws additional current and wastes it as heat), or you can cut the light green wire coming out of the fog light relay and connect it directly to chassis ground (what I did).
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