The headlights should go off with the car off, or when the switch is turned all the way to the left. Check the exterior lighting settings, as when it's dark out the car lights up like a firework for 30 or more seconds to let one see when they're approaching/departing the car. If your headlights don't go off, then see below.ok need some felp form you smart people....just did this tonight with a friend and we are not alble to turn the headlights off with the switch. for example when the car is running i cannot turn the headlights off....the tail lights and parking lights do but not the headlights, even when i turn the car off.......any ideas, is something wired wrong? or is that just how it is because it is getting power from the battery??
THanks Ryan
Can you take a picture of said capacitor?Yes it is very possible it was wired wrong, but I know there wasnt any arrows anywehre on the capacitor, we checked as xtreme mentioned that in the how to, so we made sure to look for arrows but there was none. But I am sure we could have found a way to do it wrong lol
Ryan
Should be in the main writeup unless the pictures disappeared for some reason. I used a non-polar capacitor so I didn't have to worry about which way I wired it. Unfortunately, that also made it 2x as big.The arrows on mine looked more like >>>>> than regular arrows. They also had a + and a - to designate which end went where. + would be the power feed wire, while - would be the ground wire.
It's also possible you had it wired across two different terminals, or something shifted after installation.
Xtreme, is there a picture of your capacitor, and where to install it? My harness uses a different relay than your harness.
Nice find! Looks like we don't need fuses after all! This harness was built better than I expected it to be! You saved a lot of people quite a bit of work and a few bucks.Just a note to people who feel it's necessary to install in-line fuse holders in this harness. From what I can see it's a needless expense and addition of connectors to a very nice harness. I got my harness yesterday and took it out to look it over today( it actually got here before my car!). It's a well built harness, much better than most relay harnesses I've seen in the past. I got to thinking that even the cheapest harness I've bought in the past included a fuse holder for circuit protection, yet this very nice harness didn't. After closer examination of the harness, I discovered that the 2 black wires that plug to the red wires for power supply are actually labled as fusable links. I was curious as to why they were black yet plugged into the red power wires. Now I know why. I won't be putting online fuse holders on mine as there's no need to fuse a fusable link.
Nice find! Glad to hear my concerns about it not having fuses were unfounded!Just a note to people who feel it's necessary to install in-line fuse holders in this harness. From what I can see it's a needless expense and addition of connectors to a very nice harness. I got my harness yesterday and took it out to look it over today( it actually got here before my car!). It's a well built harness, much better than most relay harnesses I've seen in the past. I got to thinking that even the cheapest harness I've bought in the past included a fuse holder for circuit protection, yet this very nice harness didn't. After closer examination of the harness, I discovered that the 2 black wires that plug to the red wires for power supply are actually labled as fusable links. I was curious as to why they were black yet plugged into the red power wires. Now I know why. I won't be putting online fuse holders on mine as there's no need to fuse a fusable link.
Well said. I don't have any before and after pics, but I can assure you that it is indeed brighter. I don't know of anyone who's done this modification who didn't notice an increase in brightness and visibility. The sheer number of high beams I got in the face right after this modification was proof of that. I didn't get high beamed before, and must have had the lights adjusted way too high before the harness went in.Nice work, I may want to try this. Like a HID upgrade thread, anybody have before/after shots to compare? I am obsessed with brighter headlights but didn't want to upgrade to HID's w/out doing a proper retrofit. This looks just as productive and doesn't turn your headlights into a glare kit, lol.
This tutorial will show you how to upgrade your wiring harness. The purpose for this upgrade is to improve the output of the factory lighting while retaining DRLs (daytime running lights).