Headlight mod
 

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=...ght%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

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

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.

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?

yep. White LEDs would look ok.

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

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

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?)

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

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?

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

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?

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

Just any cheap black spray paint should do the trick man. I hit mine with some clear after as well. :/

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. :)

thats really tight makes me wanna do mine! :p

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

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

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