Headlight mod

[Tuse31]

Hey guys, I'm planning on clearing my corners and nite shading my headlight bezels tomorrow. While I was planning it out, I thought of an idea for something else I could do. I remember seeing blue LED light strips at walmart and was wondering if there would be a possible way to wire them to light up like in an Audi R8, as shown here: http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&q=Audi%20headlight%20led#i=11

How would I go about wiring it and what about legality? It's just an idea. I believe others have thought of something similar. What do you guys think? Should I try it? Or just stick with the clear corners and tinted bezels?

EDIT: I saw something about a fuse tap and a wire coupler on another forum. How would I go about doing that? If possible..


Thanks!

-Tom

[Redog]

Blue lights in the front of a car, impersonating a cop, big fine

[sleepyalero]

dont use VHT on your bezels use nice like gloss black paint. i used Valspar primer and gloss black paint from lowes. it looks good.

[Tuse31]

Yeah very true Redog... blue wouldn't be smart at all.. Thank you for pointing that out. Would white work? I think the autozone or oreilly near me has white LED strips. And ok I have some gloss Krylon I think. Would that work?

[cavaliers60]

yep. White LEDs would look ok.

[heineck]

who started this niteshades on the bezel idea? some one else wanted to do it too. i just went home depot and bought a can of quick color paint, never had an issue. 2 bucks

[whiterider00]

nightshades over the chrome wud give like a black chrome look. some people might prefer that over completely black.

[Tuse31]

Well I would be going for the black chrome look but I went and got some duplicolor gloss black enamel for them instead. (I realized I was out of Krylon) Niteshades likes to bubble and fade I've noticed. Also walmart has some white LED strips that can be cut and shaped. I may do I write up for this mod if anyone is interested?

I am still wondering about the fuse tap and wire coupler though. Anybody have any advice about that? (maybe Cherry?)

[Ttop191]

run from a spare fuse in your fuse panel to a toggle switch somewhere, then from there to the heads, if you dont have a sunroof, i know there is a spare fuse on the passenger panel that a lot of ppl use, already has power supplied to it, simply wire in your switch, then go to the led's. easy as pie lol

[Tuse31]

Well I read somewhere that you can wire it to your parking lights or headlights to just come on whenever those are on. That way, I wouldn't need a spare switch. Is this possible?

[robalero]

it is, but are you going to solder into the connection? because if not your risking an electrical fire with just using electrical tape and hoping for the best while it gets abused in weather

[Tuse31]

If i was to just wrap the wires around one side of the fuse i would need to solder it, which i've read is one option. I don't know if a fuse tap needs to be soldered, does it?

[alero_bmxer]

here's my audi strips. also did turn signal strips that flash with turn signal bulbs

[Cashdollar2009]

Just any cheap black spray paint should do the trick man. I hit mine with some clear after as well. :/
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo331/Terrortodadeer/downsized_0801000057.jpg

[sleepyalero]

Yeah very true Redog... blue wouldn't be smart at all.. Thank you for pointing that out. Would white work? I think the autozone or oreilly near me has white LED strips. And ok I have some gloss Krylon I think. Would that work?

i used the gloss krylon black on my first set of headlights, it turned out bad for me. you can try it... but i recommend the valspar spray paint from Lowes. :)

[sleepyalero]

here's my audi strips. also did turn signal strips that flash with turn signal bulbs

thats really tight makes me wanna do mine! :p

[Tuse31]

alero_bmxer, that is sweet. haha. Thanks for those pictures. That is exactly what I am looking at doing. How did you go about doing your LED strips?

[alero_bmxer]

alero_bmxer, that is sweet. haha. Thanks for those pictures. That is exactly what I am looking at doing. How did you go about doing your LED strips?

got some 24 inch side firing LED strips from autozone, took the headlights apart and stuck them on the bottom of the bezel, ran the wire out of the headlight, ran that to a toggle switch and done

[lord2heart]

bmxer, you got any more pics like a complete front pic and a close up one, as well as a distance pic to see whats it looks like at a distance? really contemplating on doing this or not but looks pretty intertesting

[alero_bmxer]

some shitty night pics. will get better ones during the day tomorrow.

[lord2heart]

nicee, those suckers are actually pretty bright

[Tuse31]

Yeah, I personally like that look myself. Now I just wish I could afford some HID's to go along with the strips. Lol. Oh well, I can probably get some Silverstar headlights pretty cheap to match. Lol Thanks bmxer! This really helped!

[Lucalare]

Yeah, I personally like that look myself. Now I just wish I could afford some HID's to go along with the strips. Lol. Oh well, I can probably get some Silverstar headlights pretty cheap to match. Lol Thanks bmxer! This really helped!

Don't get silverstars, they suck.

[pimpalero2003]

Um ddm hids like 25-35 for them you'll pay that for crapstars

[cavaliers60]

I have silverstar Ultras in my car and I never had an issue with them.... Don't know why you all don't like them. :lol:

You could look into something like this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300471625594&crlp=1_263602_304652&ff4=263602_304652&viewitem=&guid=b99abc6c1250a0b583c3c4c3ff7c28bf&hlp=false&rvr_id=154150319348&ua=M#ht_14278wt_941

[lord2heart]

same here, i got silverstars in mine. there good in my opinion. think there like 9005 or 9004? either way they're better than what came with my car originally

[Tuse31]

Where can I find an HID kit that cheap? eBay? I would prefer to buy local from an auto parts store where I can discounted prices. What about cool blues? Or are those even worse than silverstars?

[robalero]

www.ddmtuning.com

[Lucalare]

Silverstars have a really short life span, it even says so on the box they come in. Plus I've heard lots of stories about them overheating and either breaking or damage the lens of the headlight.

[Alerojester]

we run silverstars in my other halfs Escape and we've never had a problem with them the shortest they've lasted was about a year and a half.. she likes them and i told her i wanted to HID her Escape but she doesn't want them so i guess we're sticking to silverstars

[Lucalare]

I run Wagner true views and the ones in my truck are about 3 years old now.

[CrazzyCavanaugh]

i was looking around on diffrent forums and was wondering how to do the mod for, when you have your brights on your dims also come on with them
then ones the brights are tuned off only the dims come on,
its a 99 alero
any help would be awesome lol :scpimp:

[03glgold]

i was looking around on diffrent forums and was wondering how to do the mod for, when you have your brights on your dims also come on with them
then ones the brights are tuned off only the dims come on,
its a 99 alero
any help would be awesome lol :scpimp:

I already told you on the first thread you said this on that you had found it...that is what it was for

[CrazzyCavanaugh]

i seen them but i dont understand how?
like i need how to instructions do do the mod, need help, kinda a noob when it comes to aleros

[03glgold]

did you read the first page, it was a step by step how-to...If you don't understand it, I would suggest starting on other simpler stuff and working your way up until you understand what it is saying...I would even say look at a relay to see how the pins are set-up, look at how the harnesses are that go into the headlights etc... everybody starts somewhere, most of us weren't born knowing what we were doing with this stuff, it all had to be learned

http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21715

[CrazzyCavanaugh]

thanks for the link and feed back
i know alot about cars, i just didnt know about the headlight thing