OK. With much PM help from Blown I will be installing my HHR fan tomorrow. However, UPS arrived a while ago with my new Hella lights. After a quick reading of the instructions I see that they say to hook up the lights to the high beam headlight wire. I found the wires headed into the headlight unit and it looks like it will be a tight area to work in. If you have installed lights did you by any chance use a fuse in the fuse box for this connection? what # is the fuse? Or where did you connect . Thanks.

 

My pleasure to be of assistance. Good luck with the rest of the install and the new lights!

 

Ya do that to make it easier to hook everything up.

I hooked mine up to the highbeams as well.
I hooked the power for my lights up to the positive terminal in the fuse box with one of those water tight fuse/housings inline. and the ground is to the batt ground on the side of the engine bay.


Here's a pic of where I mounted my relay for the lights. worked great for a location, if you have one in the kit you got.

 

I've installed four sets of Hellas, two for me and two for other people and I've yet to mess with running the wire to the high beams.

Latest was on my Jeep where I decided not to even mess with the switch since I had two NEVER used HomeLink buttons anyway.

Used a $14 to the door wireless relay (w/ 2 key fobs) and programmed the homelink buttons off one of the key fobs.

 

wait a minute....you can now turn your lights on with the homelink button? That has got to be the Macgyver project of the year! instructions please!

 

Pretty simple, actually. First you need to get one of these:



$14 and change shipped from Amazon.com (I've seen them at Radio Shack but for more than double the money).
Basically nothing more than a standard 15A relay but wireless with a couple of key fobs.

As seen in the pic on my previous post, I also used a 40A relay for power and am simply using this wireless one to turn that one on/off. If using a couple 55 watt Hellas, the wireless alone would be fine, but I switch between a couple Hellas on a light bar I made and a couple 130 watt lights on my winch, so I needed the higher Amperage relay.

Because I swap between my winch and a home made light bar up front, I ran the power wires to a plug I picked up at my local flea market for $2.



Now I have a plug for the lights under my front grille making the swap between winch and light bar take all of about 2 minutes.





The final step was programming the HomeLink to turn the lights off and on, which is no different than programming for a remote garage door opener. You simply train the homelink buttons using the key fob. I saw absolutely NO reason to run a wire and mount a switch with two perfectly good, unused buttons already in there. Plus now, when using the winch at night, I can turn my off-road lights on/off with the fobs without having to go inside my Jeep to do so.

Button #2 turns my lights on and button #3 turns them off...

 

I mounted my relay for my lights on the fire wall just below the cowl. found a bolt that it fit on ill post pics later also my are ran on a switch not my highbeams

 

too cool.....doing this asap! thanks!