motefaint

I purchased an aftermarket illuminated LED grill star and have removed the stock star and popped the new one in. Now my problem is figuring out which wire to tap into to power it. I figure I can ground out the second wire anywhere on the body but I can't figure out which hot wire I should splice into. I would like the star to be lit with the day running lights and also at night and preferably even when the doors are locking/unlocking. I haven't seen any guides for installing one of these on a w204. I've attached a picture of the headlight wiring harness on the passenger side. Can anybody help me figure out which wire I need? Thanks in advance.

motefaint

Also the only instructions that it came with were to connect the red wire to ACC, black wire to the earth. I'm not sure what ACC is or if it will do what I'm hoping for.

motefaint

After mining the web for a couple of hours I came to find that the gray/white wire powers the passenger front standing and parking lamp. I used this to splice in the hot wire on the LED star and it works great. Connected the other wire to a grounding nut nearby. Now my LED star illuminates when locking/unlocking and runs with the daytime running lights and also at night with the normal headlights. Hope this helps out someone else. My car is a 2013 C250.

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MB Marko

https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...ml#post6084089

check out this thread theres some PDF files you might like to take a look at

heres another thread

https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...ated-star.html

should be all you need

ghlkal

Great. Thanks for the follow up post. I appreciate it when posters follow up with the answer

ghlkal

Did you get your star off of eb*y?

Demvang

I got it from Aliexpress for less than 60 bucks. Highly recommended there.

Chaldean