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.

 

How does everybody wire the halos for their retros? I'm not going to wire them to switch and I don't want them to be on the all time. Going to be installing them within the next couple days and could use some help.

 

Wire into the DRL's..i believe it's the brown wire

 

Anybody confirm its the brown wire? And is that on the OEM harness or headlight harness? Last thing I want to do is tap into the wrong colored wire.

 

Brown wire is parking lights.

 

yep.. its brown positive and one of the black grounds (which should be the obvious one)

 

Thanks guys.

 

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.

 

^looks great! Id love to see those on the car.

 

selling a set of used retros if anyone is interested I have a for sale thread up in classifieds.

 

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?

 

did u plug the plug from the high beam solenoid to the plug on ur relay harness?

 

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?

 

there is a separate connector from the blue one for the high beam solenoid
there should be one on each side

 

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

 

correct me if i'm wrong but if i recall you need to switch 2 wires somewhere (and i honestly don't remember what ones) to have functioning high beams

 

Yep i got it. Power and ground were reversed. Pain in the ass but they are oh so worth it

 

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)?

 

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.

 

I ended up just leaving them so they'd be on all the time which I'm fine with. On a side note I don't have any high-beams and have no clue why.

 

Definitely sounds like a wiring issue. Mine did the same thing until I messed with the wiring a bit and got it nailed.

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I guess I need to repin the blue connector to get hi-beams.

 

ya you do, the plugs come wires for a 9004 socket. you just need to swap 2 wires for the proper 9007.

 

That's what I've been reading, but I can't find out which two wires.

 

Yes sir. Just gotta play around with it a little bit.

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