Official Retrofit Thread
07-10-2013, 10:21 AM
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What vendors or people are currently doing retros? Looking to have my OEM headlights retrofitted with a bi-xenon projector setup and have the housing blacked out.
07-13-2013, 07:53 AM
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Here's a mockup of what I have so far.
Cutting it close for the shroud size, but some of you guys have gone bigger with no issues. Also, on TRS's YouTube channel, it shows Matt mounting the LED ring in an Apollo 2.0 Flat shroud. I had a little trouble with the little nub the wires are soldered to. I ended up drilling a hole through the bottom of the shrouds to feed the wires through.
Cutting it close for the shroud size, but some of you guys have gone bigger with no issues. Also, on TRS's YouTube channel, it shows Matt mounting the LED ring in an Apollo 2.0 Flat shroud. I had a little trouble with the little nub the wires are soldered to. I ended up drilling a hole through the bottom of the shrouds to feed the wires through.
07-18-2013, 09:49 PM
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Someone help me. I got the mini h1 kit for trs and got everything in and good to go. I go to turn my high beams on and nothing happens. I tested the projector in my house to make sure it wasnt that and they both work fine. but when in the car they dont work. Any suggestions?
07-18-2013, 10:09 PM
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Yes the blue plug. The blue plug that normally plugs into the actual bulb is working right as per me checking it with a volt meter. one wire has constant power and one has power when i flip the high beams. So either the wire harness i got it backwards or the control module is bad. can anyone tell me the order of the colored wires on their harness?
07-18-2013, 10:49 PM
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yea i see that connector. on the drivers side i have the blue connector that normally plugs into the bulb plugged into the harness they sent me. Here is where its weird. It will not flip off low beams unless i put a bulb in the blue connector on the passenger side. But when i do that everything is backwards. With the high beams on it has highs. when i flip it to low beams the highs stay on. When i pull the light switch towards me as if i were to flash someone it goes to low beams
07-20-2013, 02:33 PM
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Alright need some help. So I'm wiring my halos for the retros. Tapped into the brown wire (positive) and black wire (negative) on the plug coming from the retros. Halos were on all the time and I couldn't control them.
Tried tapping into the orangest colored wire on the plug coming from the retros and now the halos shut OFF when I put my parking lights on. I want them to turn ON when I switch to my parking lights and be off the rest of the time. What am I doing wrong?
Not sure if it matters but I already have that black wire tapped into resistors for my switchbacks.
Should I be tapping into the wires on the other side of the plug (oem harness on the car)?
Tried tapping into the orangest colored wire on the plug coming from the retros and now the halos shut OFF when I put my parking lights on. I want them to turn ON when I switch to my parking lights and be off the rest of the time. What am I doing wrong?
Not sure if it matters but I already have that black wire tapped into resistors for my switchbacks.
Should I be tapping into the wires on the other side of the plug (oem harness on the car)?
07-20-2013, 03:51 PM
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first, a picture would be good.
Second, you're better off tracing which wire the OEM plug goes to on the headlight itself and tapping in there for a simple reason: when removing headlights, you only have to worry about one OEM plug, and all the wires/wiretaps are contained on the headlight itself. Saves you a lot of headache in the long run.
Third, from the symptoms you're describing, it sounds like you hooked up both wires that go to halos to two different positive sources, rather than hooking the ground to the ground and positive to whatever you want to power your halo. It's a good thing to do if you want your halo to alternate with your turn signal for example (highly ricer, but who knows, maybe you like it)... then you wire the positive to the parking wire, and the negative to the turn signal positive wire, that way when the turn signal is on, the halo shuts off. Hope that makes sense.
Second, you're better off tracing which wire the OEM plug goes to on the headlight itself and tapping in there for a simple reason: when removing headlights, you only have to worry about one OEM plug, and all the wires/wiretaps are contained on the headlight itself. Saves you a lot of headache in the long run.
Third, from the symptoms you're describing, it sounds like you hooked up both wires that go to halos to two different positive sources, rather than hooking the ground to the ground and positive to whatever you want to power your halo. It's a good thing to do if you want your halo to alternate with your turn signal for example (highly ricer, but who knows, maybe you like it)... then you wire the positive to the parking wire, and the negative to the turn signal positive wire, that way when the turn signal is on, the halo shuts off. Hope that makes sense.
