High Power LED Daytime Running Lights
08-30-2014, 06:22 PM
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High Power LED Daytime Running Lights
have you tried to install this? If so, please let me know how it works and to install?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/130944184176
http://www.ebay.com/itm/130944184176
08-30-2014, 09:27 PM
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2010 C350 Sport
You can get them cheaper from here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=311022165978
That's where I bought them from. I wasn't sure at first but after I installed them I was very happy that I bought them. The install is simple and doesn't take too long if you don't mind leaving things as they are. I like to take my time and make things neat so it took the better part of a day.
The way I installed them is to be 100% brightness when the car starts, then shut off when the parking/side lights come on. The control unit has multiple modes you can enable using the connectors that come out of it, or you can make the LED blink with the turn signal.
If I remember correctly, you can have it be 100% or 70% with the headlights off. Then when the headlights come on it can either be 100%, 70%, 50%, 30%, or 0% brightness.
The control unit is sometimes annoying though. There is supposed to be a built in relay that will shut the unit off or make it do one of the above things. But sometimes it will act up and either not shut off the LEDs when the headlights come on, shut only one off, not turn them on at all, and so on.
Just today I actually added a relay and disconnected the purple trigger wire that tells the unit to shut off when tapped into something. Now the power from the headlight goes through the relay, when the sidemarkers turn on, the relay completely cuts the power off, so now I don't have to worry about them going off the fritz occasionally.
If you do decide to buy them I can post more information on what I needed to do to install them and which wires I tapped into.
That's where I bought them from. I wasn't sure at first but after I installed them I was very happy that I bought them. The install is simple and doesn't take too long if you don't mind leaving things as they are. I like to take my time and make things neat so it took the better part of a day.
The way I installed them is to be 100% brightness when the car starts, then shut off when the parking/side lights come on. The control unit has multiple modes you can enable using the connectors that come out of it, or you can make the LED blink with the turn signal.
If I remember correctly, you can have it be 100% or 70% with the headlights off. Then when the headlights come on it can either be 100%, 70%, 50%, 30%, or 0% brightness.
The control unit is sometimes annoying though. There is supposed to be a built in relay that will shut the unit off or make it do one of the above things. But sometimes it will act up and either not shut off the LEDs when the headlights come on, shut only one off, not turn them on at all, and so on.
Just today I actually added a relay and disconnected the purple trigger wire that tells the unit to shut off when tapped into something. Now the power from the headlight goes through the relay, when the sidemarkers turn on, the relay completely cuts the power off, so now I don't have to worry about them going off the fritz occasionally.
If you do decide to buy them I can post more information on what I needed to do to install them and which wires I tapped into.
