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Old Mar 29, 2012 | 08:54 PM
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k fellas i just bought the CCFL halo projectors for my dak, wondering if anyone has any tips on how to wire the leds to main power, any body changed out the bulbs, apperntly high is H1 and lows are like H4 or something but i took the ruber covers off and it looks alot diffrent then a normal headlight would.. and theres this relay box resistor thingy majigor wheres a good spot to mount it? heres pics..
love when truck stuff comes to my door
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the relay thinger not sure what to do with it
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the pretty new headlights so exited to get them in..
truck.jpgdont have tourqe set on hand so ill have to wait till i get to work and get one of the mechanics tools n just worry about wiring up the leds after
 
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Old Mar 29, 2012 | 09:06 PM
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Looking good! The running lights should tap into the power wire for your parking lamps. Just use 3M double sided tape to mount the relays to the sides of the engine bay. Also, socket is a T27 Torx on mine..you'll need a 1/4" drive and an extension as well! Don't forget to post pics after installation
 
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Old Mar 29, 2012 | 10:51 PM
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OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG...I gotta get me some of those!!!! Seriously, I forgot you can get these for our trucks....I wonder how they would look painted....let us know how the aiming of the goes, I just put some halo's on my Mustang and the aim is absolutely terrible and cannot be adjusted. Are these HID? Can you replace the bulbs?
 

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im excited to see the light comparison! PICTURES
 
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Old Mar 29, 2012 | 11:35 PM
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I think the low and high beam are halogens and that if you do convert these to HID the housings are supposedly terrible for reflecting light. But thats what was said about our stock housings and my HID's work great so whatever haha. They would look good painted and on your truck IMO..atleast just an eyebrow and the grey frame.
 
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Old Mar 30, 2012 | 02:15 AM
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I have the same lights. I love mine. Here is the link for my thread
https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen...eadlights.html
 
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Old Mar 30, 2012 | 09:52 AM
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haha ya snyder these are from the ebay link you sent me.. cant wait to get them installed apperntly the "halos" are 6000k the bulbs are hard to say if the discription on ebay is to the T. apperntly you can buy these already set up with HID although i cant say for sur... just got off work so ganna hit the sack n get up in the afternoon and get them hooked up, when i go on days off im ganna be painting the grill or bed lining not sure what to use yet i want to be able to pressure wash it without problems so i gota look into what to use.. another post soon to come haha, but im ganna atempt to take the lens off with out breaking anything and try to paint that gray trim black aswell but dont worry fellas, before an after pic will be up tonight.. and btw keaton if your interested i would say go for it, just by lookin at snyders pics you can see how awesome they look, he loves em^^ im quiet sure i will to and i got mine for 180$CAD including shipping to canada off ebay..
 
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Old Mar 30, 2012 | 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by marcsnyder05
I have the same lights. I love mine. Here is the link for my thread
https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen...eadlights.html

Well look at that ****, I said I was going to buy these a year ago!! D@mn I got CRS disease....
 
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Originally Posted by jkeaton
Well look at that ****, I said I was going to buy these a year ago!! D@mn I got CRS disease....
Better now than never!
 
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Old Mar 31, 2012 | 01:39 AM
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so heres the update, went together pretty well, took a few trys to get them to work the way i wanted it to, on my headlight connection i got the 3 wires, black-ground white/blue stripe and white/green stripe and its connected to the white and blue one so i have them working only on my low beams, driving lights and high beams the halos go off..
hooking them up to the white/green there only on with the high beams.. so im stumped on how to get it to work as long as the lights are on, it would look sweet if you could have them come on even with the parking lights so it would be just the 2 orange markers and the halos and other leds on with no light on the main bulbs, youd really be able to see the "angel eye"s.. so if anyones got any input?

as for the aim, out of the box there not to bad at all, its a pretty solid an level line up top but down low i have a black space just under the lights and the left side is a little bit farther out, decent enough for a few days till i can go out to a field at night and play with them a bit, ganna try and find some tips or how-tos on aiming your lights and see what happens.

and with only running them for 30 min maybe a bit longer quiet a bit of condensation built up at the bottom by the 5 little LEDs on the bottom and u can feel the heat the give off its definatly warm

but anyways heres the pics i love it makes a huge diffrence even makes the ****y chrome grill look better haha, but ya they look awesome at night im super stoked

top view get a good look at the halos with out the low beam blinding the cam like the next pic
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and just the parking lights, you can actually see the condensation on the left light at the bottom
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