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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #20 on: 20 June 2013, 12:27 »
Ill try the sidelight then am I best getting scotch connectors ? Also where is the best place to find an earth under the bonnet

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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #21 on: 20 June 2013, 12:32 »
Ill try the sidelight then am I best getting scotch connectors ? Also where is the best place to find an earth under the bonnet

anywhere metal!!!!

Cheers fella , I'm hoping its easier to do then what I think !
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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #22 on: 20 June 2013, 12:37 »
Ill try the sidelight then am I best getting scotch connectors ? Also where is the best place to find an earth under the bonnet
yeah scotch connectors are fine.

personally id proberbly just use crimps cause there easier to find.


take out lights, trace the +ve and -ve wires back a few inches, cut, crimp in another wire then connect up to the drl's. like as shown below

                                                     ___________________ new wire to DRL +ve
+ve From car -----------------Crimp-------------------------------existing wire to side light+ve

                                                    ___________________ new wire to DRL -ve
-ve from car -----------------Crimp-------------------------------existing wire to side light -ve


then the same for the other side

obviously both the new wire and existing wire are going into the crimp but you get the idea. not ideal having 3 wires in a crimp, but possible, ive done it before, or if you can get them there are three-way crimps, but there harder to find in shops and id imagine more costly.
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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #23 on: 20 June 2013, 12:40 »
if you want to go really all out then get some heat shrink too, and put on the wire before you crimp then once you have crimped it and tested, move the heat shrink up over the crimp and run a soldering iron over to give a water tight seal

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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #24 on: 20 June 2013, 12:49 »
Should of brought the drl's with the moduel would of been so much easier ! Just a sham on mk4 you don't have much space for your hands lol
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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #25 on: 20 June 2013, 13:21 »
do the 2 lower from grills just unclip off ?
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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #26 on: 20 June 2013, 13:36 »
ive got 2 splicers on one wire, no problems


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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #27 on: 20 June 2013, 14:31 »
do the 2 lower from grills just unclip off ?
yes, pull the top down and they will come out.

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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #28 on: 20 June 2013, 16:35 »
do the 2 lower from grills just unclip off ?

If you were closer to me I'd do it for you, no offence but if you're asking questions like that I can see this ending in tears :whistle:

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Re: Led day lights help
« Reply #29 on: 20 June 2013, 18:15 »
Hahaha got to start somewhere   :laugh:
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