hi mate, today i finished my upgrade from 2010 C220 executive edition to front sport bumper from 2011 as i bought whole front set up together from a scrapyard. (Bonnet,bumper,headlights,led lights,wings...) but two issues that I'm having right now! I cut off old fog connectors cables and wired them to the Led's connectors cables and fitted them to DRL's. kind of straight swap :-) but passenger side (left) LED flicked few times and didn't come on while driver side led was on and steady! I used fog lights switch, any idea where did i go wrong or what's missing that i can't figure out, do i have to install a capacitor? any help would be much appreciated.
regards.
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hi mate, today i finished my upgrade from 2010 C220 executive edition to front sport bumper from 2011 as i bought whole front set up together from a scrapyard. (Bonnet,bumper,headlights,led lights,wings...) but two issues that I'm having right now! I cut off old fog connectors cables and wired them to the Led's connectors cables and fitted them to DRL's. kind of straight swap :-) but passenger side (left) LED flicked few times and didn't come on while driver side led was on and steady! I used fog lights switch, any idea where did i go wrong or what's missing that i can't figure out, do i have to install a capacitor? any help would be much appreciated.
regards.
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Looks like I will be taking on this project on my 2010 C300 Sport. Was able to find the connectors with cable prewired. Also found a DRL controller that connects directly to the battery and it should allow it to dim and get bright depending if the headlights are on or not.

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DRL controller works just need find another source besides the battery and hook up one of the wire to the head lights so it dims when the headlights are on. And because I put smoke film on it, the light output doesn't match my setup now. For now I'm leaving it off. I kinda like it off.

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I accomplished the same using second parking light signal in the head light


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I need to tap into the headlight so my DRL controller will dim the DRL when the headlights turn on. Does anyone know which wire I need to tap into on the headlight connector?

you need a custom made circuit that reduce the voltage when headlight is on, car by itself cant because the sam is not the one that has bumper drl circuit

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I have a drl controller box attached (see my post a few post above) to my drl that's what I'm needed to hook up to a fuse. And one of the leads on it needs to tap into the headlights (low beam) wire so when it's on the drl dims to 50%. Finding a fuse or acc to tap onto is easy but figuring out which wire is for the low beam is what i need to know. I did find an info online. See attached screenshot. Looks like I need to tap into the yellow wire. I will be trying it today.

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This is the DRL controller I bought on Amazon. I've already tested and my drl do not flicker with this one. Once I have it tapped to my low beam I'm hoping it does what it's supposed to and dim the DRL to 50% when low beam is on.



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Looks like it's the yellow/black wire. I just tapped into the socket on the head light connector with it detached. It dims temporarily only. Not sure if it's because the headlight connector is detached.
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yes you can tap it on the back of the headlight but make sure the socket is connected to the headlight or else the sam will cut off the power immediately because it thinks the bulb had a fault...

Thank you that is very useful info! Will try it once I get the correct wire tapper. The one I got is for higher guage.

Anyone have a solution to this?

I bought ebay chineses lights and hooked em straight up (No Cap or Resistor) also I did not tie into the running light.
With fog light switch on they will flash on & off about 4 times then cancel out. If I lock the car with the FOB they will flash a few times on and off as well.

I then installed a capacitor 25V 100uF, No change



What I've tried:
-Wires straight to LED
-Installing Capacitor
-Flipping the wires on the light.
No changes, they act the same no matter what I've done lol. Any Ideas? TIA

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How I wired the light in w/capacitor
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The lights I bought https://www.ebay.com/itm/40440195631...3ABFBMmJ-c16Bj
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The Capacitor I used.