DIY RS headlight install in Non RS car Help

[amanc96]

Originally Posted by christianmotox

Wow, Its a shame that AAC does not make the harness any more, it had a lot of potential, all it needed was to include the OEM harness (35 bucs each from GMparts direct), and this would have been a true plug and play harness.

They didn't include the OEM plugs??

[l008com]

Nope, just these sketchy little clips, you clipped one on each pin.

[amanc96]

This is what you need from Otto Body



Just send him an e-mail, he'll set you up!
tcotto65@gmail.com

Their wiring harness has the plugs so all you have to do is pull out the old headlight, put in the new RS headlight, plug the factory headlight plug into the Otto Body wiring harness and then the wiring harness into the RS headlight. The white wire is for the Halo, and for that they said to cut the middle wire on the turn signal bulb and connect it to that.

Here is and RS headlight powered by their wiring harness. I didn't connect the halo yet since I won't get my other headlight until Monday.

[l008com]

amanc96 now are your low beans your DRL's with that harness?
Also if you wire the the halo's into the turn signal, won't that make the halos into turn signals?

[amanc96]

Originally Posted by l008com

amanc96 now are your low beans your DRL's with that harness?
Also if you wire the the halo's into the turn signal, won't that make the halos into turn signals?

Correct, the low beam are my DRLs with the harness. The headlights act the same way as your non RS headlights but now you have the halo's.

Its actually wired into the parking light part. Theres 3 wires running to the parking light, I'm guessing one is ground, the other is the turn signal wire, and the middle wire is the parking light wire. So the halo's will stay on constantly even if the turn signal is running. I don't have the wiring for the car so that's just a guess.

To get the halo's on, you have to run your parking lights.

Hopefully that's not confusing.

[l008com]

I really want my halos to be my DRLs, so they're on all day when i'm driving around. And I really don't want the low beams to be the DRLs. That sucks.

[amanc96]

You can always turn the low beams off and just run the parking lights. The only thing you will see from the front would be the halos.

[l008com]

I don't want to drive around with all my parking lights on, and i don't want to have to play with switches every time I get in my car either.

[christianmotox]

Originally Posted by amanc96

You can always turn the low beams off and just run the parking lights. The only thing you will see from the front would be the halos.

Thats a really nice and simple harness. do you still have high beams with that?

[christianmotox]

Originally Posted by l008com

I don't want to drive around with all my parking lights on, and i don't want to have to play with switches every time I get in my car either.

All you need to do is disable DRL by removing the spring that makes the lights knob stay at auto. by removing this you will be able to set the knob to off, and just turn it to auto at night.

and for the halos, you will need to run the cable to the fuse box, since they already have ground from the harness, you just run a positive cable to a fuse, so when you open the ignition you're halos will turn on.

Thats how i have mine set up.

Good luck.

[amanc96]

Originally Posted by christianmotox

Thats a really nice and simple harness. do you still have high beams with that?

High beams work.

Originally Posted by christianmotox

and for the halos, you will need to run the cable to the fuse box, since they already have ground from the harness, you just run a positive cable to a fuse, so when you open the ignition you're halos will turn on.

which fuse did you run it to in the fuse box? I was looking around in there and wasn't really sure what would be a good one to run it too. I was thinking about doing this and just turning off the headlights since i do that now already. Then that way the halo's are always on and i don't have to cut up the parking light wires...

[christianmotox]

Originally Posted by amanc96

High beams work.




which fuse did you run it to in the fuse box? I was looking around in there and wasn't really sure what would be a good one to run it too. I was thinking about doing this and just turning off the headlights since i do that now already. Then that way the halo's are always on and i don't have to cut up the parking light wires...

i used the #20, ECM/Ignition fuse. Nothing fancy, i just ran a cable up to the fuse.

BTW, i sent OTTOBODY an email to ask him about the harness. How much was it?, thats a much cleaner set up than what i have now.

[l008com]

Let me know if he gets back to you.

[amanc96]

Originally Posted by christianmotox

i used the #20, ECM/Ignition fuse. Nothing fancy, i just ran a cable up to the fuse.

BTW, i sent OTTOBODY an email to ask him about the harness. How much was it?, thats a much cleaner set up than what i have now.

I picked up one of the Bussmann add-a-circuit to use. i'll just connect both halo wires together and add it in. I think i was going to use #61. if something goes down then i don't mind having a heated mirror not working while i'm out driving around...