For about $75 online, you can get combination lenses & LED running lights like pic below. For about $110, you get both the headlights and front corner turn lenses. There are also black versions which look especially nice on grey Millenium painted front ends. I wired the new headlights' built-in LED running lights to the adjacent front parking lights. So now I often run in daylight using just those LEDs, without the actual headlights having to be on.
I used T-Taps wire connectors to tap into each respective side marker light.Skillet wrote:Next question: For the LED daytime running lights that are built-in, did you purchase a DRL harness or just wire 'em up with your own wire?
At the top of each light are two retaining tabs. You push them back to unlock them, then pull up about an inch. This frees the pins sticking out the back of the headlight assembly (be ready to catch the lens, although the bulb wire helps do that as well). The pic below shows the leftmost tab and its two pins. The other tab is half visible at the far upper right. As you can surmise, the headlight pins stick into the body holes and then through the large hole sections in the retaining tabs. Pushing down on the tab forces the smaller hole sections around the pins to hold them tight.Skillet wrote:Last question: I've been watching some Youtube videos on removing the headlights but was wondering since you did it, do you have a description on here where you explained the process? I think it would be easier to understand on here.
Getting them out is easy. It's getting the retainer slide tabs to lock again that's often difficult. Sometimes they just don't want to slide down over the headlight pins again, especially new ones. (Some people have even resorted to swapping in the old pins, which is often not possible)
I've used two tricks to help. 1) Dremeling a bevel on the top of a resisting pin to help help guide the retainer into place - as seen on the back of Pin 1 above, and 2) using a hammer to lightly tap on the top tabs to help them lock.