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Headlight with HID Installation<br> Page 3</font></p> <p> </p> <p>Button the high beams back up by securing the wire tabs and putting the door back on. Here is a blurry shot of the low beam casing with the HID bulb in front. </p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image17.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>Pull the yellow wire from the bulb and wrap it up. This is the low beam power wire. If you were installing just the ellipsoids, you'd keep this plugged into the bulb. Notice the 4 prong connector to the left of the bulb?</p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image18.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>As much as I hate having to take knives to my car, if you are installing HIDs, you need to cut a hold in the low beam door to let the wires for the HID bulb come out. I unfortunately don't have a drill but with some muscle and a sharp knife I managed to make a small hole in the door to let the wires come out.</p> <p><font color="#FF3333">Update 11/05/2001: I've put some silicon sealant around the hole where the wires go into the back of the ellipsoids to make it waterproof.</font></p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image19.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>Before I plug the HID bulb into the outlet I wanted to clean if first. These HID bulbs could burst if there is any finger oil or other crap on them. I don't know who has touched them before I had them so I did this as a precautionary measure. I used some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. I made sure that the q-tip didn't leave any fibers on the bulb. Close that alcohol back up you huffer!</p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image20.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>Insert the bulb, route the wires through the hole and close up the low beam housing. I may get some silicon sealant to close up the hole. </p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image21.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>Here is the harness connector socket and the rubber shield.. This is the socket that connects to the round connector on the headlight unit that I pointed out earlier. Notice the four holes in the harness connector socket? If you look closely you'll notice that they are labeled 1 through 4. </p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image22.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>If I was installing just the ellipsoids, I'd cut both the high and low beam connectors. However, since I am installing the HID kit, all I need to do is cut off the high beam connectors. Don't cut too close to the connector because you might need them again sometime, but don't leave too much wire on the connectors because you will need some slack to route them through the harness connector. </p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image24.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p>Strip about 1/4 inch of insulation from the wires and crimp on the connector socket contact pins. They are barbed and will snap into the harness connector. Insert them into the connector using the following order:</p> <p>Hole 1 - Brown (ground) wire<br> Hole 2 - Gray (city) wire<br> Hole 3 - Yellow (low beam) wire<br> Hole 4 - Blue (high beam) wire</p> <p>For my installation, I only needed to insert wires into hole 1 and 4. I'm not using the city lights because I'd eventual like to try to put angel eyes into the headlight assemblies. Anyway, I'm not too impressed with the city lights. Make you you near a nice little snap when you insert the wires into the housing. The snap will let you know they are inserted all the way in.</p> <p><img src="images/headlights/Image25.jpg" width="640" height="480"></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="m3-headlights-page4.html">Page 4</a></p> </blockquote> </TD> <TD vAlign=top align=left width=10 bgColor=#3366ff height=856 rowspan="3"> </TD> </TR> <TR> </TR> <TR> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-938552-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </BODY> </HTML>