Soo, i've wanted to do this for a wee while, and finally it came to fruition today!! Just thought i would post how we went about doing it, and the end results.
So, front grille was a bit of a pest, pull it off all round, with dodgy plastic clips. The parking sensor wires prevented it from completely coming away from the car, and were too fiddly to disconnect, so i made do.
SO i then discovered that the bolts in the back of the LEDs weren't long enough to reach through the grille, to bolt on. I took them out of the plastic holders, and discovered it was a very snug fit in the grille, so with a little super glue, i slotted the two top ones in, with super glue added, and wa-la, sorted.
Unfortunately, that's where the luck ended. The bottom two wouldn't fit snug in the grille, as the grille is bigger at the bottom. This presented a problem, as i had no longer bolts. I ended up cutting two blocks of wood, and screwed the brackets on through the grille to the wood behind. This is just going to be temporary, until i can get to JRD / B&Q for longer bolts.
So, it was then my time to step back, and lewisp 's turn to step up. He tried scotch locks to wire the positive to the side lights, but the scotch locks i bought were crap, so he resorted to terminal blocks to connect to the side lights. He decided to do the connection from inside the headlight unit, as there was much more access to the wires inside, and it was much easier to see which wire we needed, compared to trying to connect at the harness plug. He drilled a small hole through the wee access cover for the lead to go through, and left some lose to give some play with the units being removed etc.
He then wired the negative / earth to an earth point for each side.
I didn't want them as DRLs or anything like that, just to be on when the side lights are on, And this is the results:
AND even better at night
Fairly simple, if you know how. But i am well chuffed with the results
With thanks to lewisp
So, front grille was a bit of a pest, pull it off all round, with dodgy plastic clips. The parking sensor wires prevented it from completely coming away from the car, and were too fiddly to disconnect, so i made do.
SO i then discovered that the bolts in the back of the LEDs weren't long enough to reach through the grille, to bolt on. I took them out of the plastic holders, and discovered it was a very snug fit in the grille, so with a little super glue, i slotted the two top ones in, with super glue added, and wa-la, sorted.
Unfortunately, that's where the luck ended. The bottom two wouldn't fit snug in the grille, as the grille is bigger at the bottom. This presented a problem, as i had no longer bolts. I ended up cutting two blocks of wood, and screwed the brackets on through the grille to the wood behind. This is just going to be temporary, until i can get to JRD / B&Q for longer bolts.
So, it was then my time to step back, and lewisp 's turn to step up. He tried scotch locks to wire the positive to the side lights, but the scotch locks i bought were crap, so he resorted to terminal blocks to connect to the side lights. He decided to do the connection from inside the headlight unit, as there was much more access to the wires inside, and it was much easier to see which wire we needed, compared to trying to connect at the harness plug. He drilled a small hole through the wee access cover for the lead to go through, and left some lose to give some play with the units being removed etc.
He then wired the negative / earth to an earth point for each side.
I didn't want them as DRLs or anything like that, just to be on when the side lights are on, And this is the results:
AND even better at night
Fairly simple, if you know how. But i am well chuffed with the results
With thanks to lewisp