Stu

I did the high beam > low beam conversion and hated it.

I also tried Silverstar bulbs ... they were better but both nulbs burned out in a year .... so now I want to get 80 watt low beams and wondered where I can get a heavy duty wiring harness so I dont fry the wires ?

Any other problems with making this happen that I should know about ?

 

bl420

http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ORD-L...s-no-23756.htm

basically any harness that uses relays and draws power from your battery is good.

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92drls

Wow, thats a perfect answer to what he was looking for. Lets see that more often

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Stu

Yes, thanks ! Just what I need. I will get a set of those and bingo, I can see at night ( I hope)

bl420

installation will be pretty straight forward.

it has 2 "in" connectors where you plug one low beam plug and one high beam plug. you'll use the plugs from the driver side. so you wont even use the passenger plugs.

then it has 4 "out" connectors.

this kit will allow you to have highs and lows at the same time.

i noticed with this kit my lights never dim when my system is playing... even though every other light dims.. like my gauges.

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telafonic

bl420, thanks for the link.
I was just curious what you meant by 'have highs and lows at the same time'.
If I understand you right, the OEM setup does exactly that when you put your brights on, because we have 4 single-filament bulbs, 2 lows, 2 highs, so the lows are already on all the time, and if the highs are on (center headlights), without your bright switch active, you'd still have your brights on. I don't know if that made sense. Maybe I misunderstood what you wrote. :p

bl420

i dont know if i remember correctly but i just did some searching and you're correct since our cars have a 9005/9006 combo (4 bulbs) we can have both high beam and low beam on at the same time.

i would go out and test it but i dont have my car right now... bhg repair

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Stu

here is an interesting link

http://www.caamanitoba.com/web/magaz...ved-ss-32.html

Stu

Will this product actually install in a Legend, or am I going to get a product that doesn't work on out particular car ?

Description: 9005, 9006 Heavy Duty Automotive Head Lamp Wiring Relays Kit

It does NOT list cars which it fits ... it just says
For: For Most Car

Kinda concerned, which is why I like to buy things locally and have them installed !

bl420

well i have it installed in my legend as you can see in my 2nd post... post #5

the reason why it says for most cars is because... not all cars have 9005/9006 bulbs

9006 is your low beam and 9005 is your high beam

theres a whole slew of other types of bulbs... thats why it says for most cars...

and the reason why it doesnt list for what car it fits is because they already said what type of bulb it needs. (9005/9006)

you're not going to go to an auto parts store and look on the back of an oil bottle and find your car listed on the back... reason being your suppose to know what your car uses.

btw the reason why they sell a 9005/9006 harness kit is because the cars that have 9006 bulbs as their low beams have also have 9005 as their high beams...
the two go hand in hand together because they're single filament bulbs.

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bl420

btw your local parts store is probably only going to have what they call a heavy duty wiring harness which is basically a female 9005 or 9006 connector that just has a thicker wire going out of it...

like this





(no relays or anything to draw power from your battery) pretty much useless since its still dependant on the original wire. and if you want to make that cheap harness better your going to have to use relays.

they also have something called plug and play kits which is basically the same thing so that you wont have to splice or solder into your existing connection.
but its still the same thing...

so why not just get the kit.

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Stu

Here is a nice description for you technical guys

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...ys/relays.html

Stu

I wonder what a dealership would charge me to install it ? Don't like getting my hands dirty, lol

bl420

if you can do the 9005 > 9006 bulb conversion than you can do this

its as simple as it sounds... plug and play

all you have to do is connect 4 wires... ground... high beam connector... low beam connector... and one wire to the battery postive terminal.

this seriously took me less than 10 mins to install

and you can probably use some zip ties when feeding the passenger side harness to the other side and zip tieing them to the bumper... thats it

im sure you probably dont want to drop off your car at the dealer and wait a couple hours when you can do it yourself in less amount of time than it takes to get it to the dealer no less mention how much of your arm they're going to take off to install a headlight harness.

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Stu

So I guess you didn't you use any relays or fuses at all ?
I have done some reading in the links I posted and I think its more complicated than 4 wires.

Anyone heard of this guy Daniel Stern ?