Little Green

from Phillips. Really nice but I need to know where to tap into a positive and ground(that one is easy) in the engine compartment. I know about the posts for charging and jumping but it doesn't lend itself to wiring there.
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Caesar

911PERVY

Please post some pics of this mod!!

craigius

Again please post pics of this mod.... you could pick the power up from the fuse box if you get the wires through the bulk head......im looking at doing this mod myself next......

Little Green

I Will later today. I get a set of fuse taps at pep's

Little Green

Here is the pic of the package. Will grab pics of the car shortly.
Super easy install. Figured out the wiring with help from co workers.

Little Green

Here are pics on and off

deilenberger

I know we asked for pics - but mebbe you could resize them to something other then gigantic.. mebbe 800x600 (which works nicely on most browsers..)

BTW- I only see OFF, no ON..

Little Green

I can't resize. It's from my iPhone.

ArneeA

hold down CTRL + scroll your mouse scroller. For most browsers, this should zoom in/out...

or you can also zoom in/out the hard way.

Works great with other applications as well... i.e. Excel, etc.

911PERVY

Looks good! Have you fixed them or just wedged them into the grille? Where did you pick up the feed from?

craigius

Nice i like them would be nice to see some shots at night as well!
How did you get the power to them?

Little Green

Good Lord those are big pics. Sorry. I shot them with my iphone and loaded them from the iphone.
Anyway. Install is fairly straight forward and I am not adept at this sort of thing.
I used 3M mounting tape(Spongy double sided super sticky stuff specifically designed for car applications) both on top and underneath the light. The light happens to fit almost perfectly between the slits.
One light comes with a 9 foot lead the other with a 6 foot.
Steps I took were as follows:
Remove both headlights
Put the wire through the grill slits and fish them up towards the top of the engine using a wire hanger
Work the wire from the passenger side towards your driver side.( I zippy tied the wire to my intake but you could easily just leave the wire in the grill and run it to the drivers side)
Put 3M tape on both top and bottom of the light and place them where you want them


From an electrical connection perspective:
This Phillips unit comes with a quick connect system for the lights that atttach to a control box.. Attach the light connections to the box connectors.
The control box has 3 wires. A positive(red), Ground (Black) and an orange one.
For the Power I used a fuse tap(got it at Pep Boys in their electrical section) and tapped right into the fuse box in the engine compartment. This is incredibly easy to do.
For the ground I just unscrewed a small bolt that was near the fuse box that was holding together two pieces of metal.
For the orange wire: The kit comes with one of those quick connect wire clips. There is no splicing. You just put the orange wire in the clip and connect it to another wire and close the clip.
The wire that the orange wire connects to is part of the headlight plug that is mounted in the car that the headlight mounts into. I used the 3rd wire from the left on the top row of wires.

Then I just zippy tied (using heavy duty wire holders) the small connector box inside the hole where the headlight mounts.

This sounds way more complicated than it really is. It's literally 20 minutes start to finish. The really cool thing is the lights come on as soon as I put the key in the ignition. They shut off about 3-5 seconds after the car is shut off.

I will take pics of my wiring and mounting later

The difference between this kit and all the others is that little black box. IT allows the lights to work properly. There is no on/ off switch or anything like that. It works like OEM. I wish they were just a little longer.

GermanCarSpecialists

that actually looks like a clean set up.

911PERVY

Caesar inspired me on this one! My take was to use 2 units per side and I used black silicon mastic to "glue" them in




As Caesar said, the Philips ones are very good quality, glass not plastic, and the control box is a clever bit of kit which makes it all work automactically

craigius

little green could you post some pics of the connection of the orange wire please............... as i have looked at the same kit myself, dies this kit dim the drl when you put the side/headlights on or do the drl's switch off i know there are 3 kits in the phillip's range you see.