Ian C Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 This covers the dipped beam units from THIS THREAD. Foglights turned out to need a lot of modification so you’ll have to figure those out for yourself First off, there is an unused section of wiring loom and a rubber bulkhead bung provided in case the wiring had to go through a wing or something. This is unrequired on our cars, so you can remove it like so: This is what you’ll remove: I left part of the rubber bung in place on the wiring we do want just to keep the wires together. Unplug the OEM dipped light connecter (the brown one) Twist and remove the OEM lightbulb Unscrew the HID bulb cover and carefully remove the packaging collar that lets you take the bulb out. Don’t touch the bulb or the oil from your fingers will cause the bulb to pop Plonk the new HID bulb into the light fitting (pardon the blurry photo) Your ballast pack has two wires coming out of it: Connect the obvious one of these wires to the OEM light connector: Ballast pack to headlight unit.jpg The other wire coming out fo the unit splits into two. These connect to the HID bulb wire. You can’t get these wrong as they are male/female to female/male: (Those aren’t my hands btw) Now fire up your electrics and test the units. If they work okay, tuck the HID wiring and units away with the miracle of tietags and perhaps the supplied brackets: Lovely job. Incidentally, if you have trouble feeding a tietag down, under, and back up something, try this handy trick – bend the tietag 90deg at two points first: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 (edited) Attached are some examples of what the results are like Thank you Alex for providing the units and the previous experience of HIDs. Apologies for my car mysteriously having the polarity reversed on both OEM connectors Must fix that one day so I can plug the lights in securely -Ian Edited September 30, 2012 by Ian C (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 And I can't resist putting these pics up, in case you think this install is a bit tricky This is some of the wiring we found in Alex's new Soop! Cue a day of tracing and tidying up, and the fixing of many scotchlok bodges. The HID install deffo wasn't too hard after this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Nice one guys...will refer back to this once mine arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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