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Thats concerning but I'm in to far now and I'm pushing on with the install . I would imagine that i won't have the car in two years and it rarely sees the light of day so hopefully i don't get the problems you've had .
I am seeking some guidance around how everyone has installed the wires though . My understanding is there is a pair of loose wires for each angel eye and a pair of loose wires for the top light . I don't see the need for the top light so thinking i should leave it unconnected . Anyone wish to share how they wired the angel eyes , di you use a relay and take power back to live or butt into existing sidelight wires .
Also what bulbs did you use to . I currently have small led type which give a nice white sidelight but main beam is the old yellow tone .
 
williamdefender said:
Thats concerning but I'm in to far now and I'm pushing on with the install . I would imagine that i won't have the car in two years and it rarely sees the light of day so hopefully i don't get the problems you've had .
I am seeking some guidance around how everyone has installed the wires though . My understanding is there is a pair of loose wires for each angel eye and a pair of loose wires for the top light . I don't see the need for the top light so thinking i should leave it unconnected . Anyone wish to share how they wired the angel eyes , di you use a relay and take power back to live or butt into existing sidelight wires .
Also what bulbs did you use to . I currently have small led type which give a nice white sidelight but main beam is the old yellow tone .
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There are 3 pairs of wires for the angles and a pair of odd LEDs between them. I would suggest only connecting the angels, no idea what the central LEDs are for. I have a changeover relay to have the top 'eyebrow' as the parking light with Philips 4000K W5W LEDs (OSRAM are equally good) and the angels wired to the other pin to come on when the IGN is on.
If you use Philips or Osram LEDs you will need to code out the bulb check. If you use resistors then you'll not have any power savings.

How you wire them up depends on what look you want to achieve. Figure that out and I'll give you some wiring possibilities.
 
Thanks Steve , I'm thinking it would be nice to have the angels come on as daytime running lights and side /mains dip all run as normal via light switch . Think my previous 08 lci 520 used to do that . I do remember having to change the bulbs in those a few times so I'm concerned that i would have to take of the bumper again as natahanz4c has commented . Can you confirm is this correct , surely sonar would have figured out that this wouldn't be the way to go . Hey Tomzo check out your motor , looks about ten years younger , super job there m8.
 
Think you'd only need to remove the bumper to replace the halos (which would involve pulling apart the headlights anyway).
Access to the main bulbs would be as per the normal headlights, ie, through the hatch in the wheel arch liner.
 
The halos on my past 5 series was a glass tube which just took a bulb . It wasn't a case of replacing the ring , are you sure you're right about this enzed4 ?
Im thinking that if your adding angels to existing lights then you're fitting some sort of aftermarket led round strip but surely with a headlight that is built with halos then there must be a bulb .
 
Hia Williamdefender - I was so up for drl's when I bought the sonar's but I am so glad that I got the garage to rig them without drl's and simply left it to the lights dial! The lights are not bright enough to even be considered as drl's anyway.

I occasionally switch on the side lights for the drl effect - previously I would be concerned that my back lights were on but who cares?

I think the headlights look amazing with no actual light whatsoever and I rarely drive the Zed in the dark anyway - my main aim after seeing them was to blank out the top strips and make them completely redundant - in my opinion they are worthless and make the car look at tad silly if rigged up

Tomo
 
ah ok got you enzed4 that makes sense . Ok so now I'm thinking not having the rings running all the day as i don't want to over do it with them and tomoz4 advice makes great advice also . So thats it then , going to wire them with the sidelights , don't think i would need a relay for that just a case of butting into the sidelight live , scooba steve maybe you can confirm this .
Tom you've discussed blanking out the top strip , how did you go about this ?
thanks for the great discussion folks , i just want to get my plan ready as i reakon they will be here before the weekend . :thumbsup:
 
I find my halos are plenty bright enough - perhaps they were swapped out at an earlier time (the headlights looked like they'd been opened before).
Agree with tomoz4white that the top strip lights are useless so I blacked out the top strip when painting the inners, and now you can't see them :thumbsup:
 
williamdefender said:
Thanks Steve , I'm thinking it would be nice to have the angels come on as daytime running lights and side /mains dip all run as normal via light switch . Think my previous 08 lci 520 used to do that . I do remember having to change the bulbs in those a few times so I'm concerned that i would have to take of the bumper again as natahanz4c has commented . Can you confirm is this correct , surely sonar would have figured out that this wouldn't be the way to go . Hey Tomzo check out your motor , looks about ten years younger , super job there m8.
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If you get Philips or Osram LEDs they will last a long time, I have been running a pair of W5W sidelights for 3 years with no issues.

You have a pre-facelift so it's not possible to code sidelights as DRLs (as far as I have seen). The sidelight feed, as is, will light the 'eyebrow' as I call it, the strip at the top. This has W5W bulbs in which seem to need the headlight off to replace. It's possible to run the wiring so you can change it later and I have literally 20 changeover relays if you want them wired up like I plan to.

PM me your email and I can send the wiring diagram and give you all the lighting possibilities I can think of.

You anywhere near London?
 
enzed4 said:
I find my halos are plenty bright enough - perhaps they were swapped out at an earlier time (the headlights looked like they'd been opened before).
Agree with tomoz4white that the top strip lights are useless so I blacked out the top strip when painting the inners, and now you can't see them :thumbsup:
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Thats a mighty fine job you've done there m8 . Im not for opening them up so reason i will just stick a bulb in and not wire it up.
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As Scooba said - yes I wouldn't use the top strips - pointless.

We both made them redundant in different ways - you can black them out or simply remove the bulb and buy the resistors so you dont get an ECU warning which is what I went for. The resistors are pennies from ebay. Either option does the job mate. Pics please once done!

Tomo
 
Here a quick snap of the current leds which are in my car at the minute . Im not getting any dash alarms and they shine a nice white . Hopefully i can transplant these and be error free sidelight_led.jpg

Don't you just love the cameras in phones nowadays , flipping great
sidelight2.png
 
You wont have to really change any bulbs mate with the Sonar's - just the main headlight bulbs to osram's for brightness as they are pretty dull.
 
The rings are fixed and if you are cancelling out the eye brows (top strips) you wont be using any side light led bulbs from your previous set up. Just buy some Osrams for the main lights and transfer your main beam bulbs from the originals. Job done
 
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