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Parts/tools
Disassembly we all know how to do that right? All the little clips around the headlamp pops off the glass comes off, with the gasket. we will skip the boring stuff.
Cut off mod, done the easy way.
- take the round screw off cap off.
- there will be 3 silver screws to take off in the first picture
- the following three shows the screws to pull off
- then the bulb housing comes off the projector
- take the bulb housing and trace the area around the bottom to make a 1/2 moon
- get some sheet metal shears
- cut the trace out like in the pictures
- drop it in and use some of the 3m thin quality double stick tape and stick it down
- proceed to put the bulb housing back on and crew into place
- the metal shield you just made will get sandwiched onto the old shield
LED STRIP mod
using the led strip in the first picture
- you flip the lense cover over and razor blade off the silicone off the four tabs that hold the clear reflector cover
- after the cover is loose you will take the lense off
- with the lense off the led strip has 3m stick tape that can be stuck to the insode of the reflector housing, pics are self explainitory
- you see on and off pictures
these LED strips are the same ones i used for this mod on my XC90. the ones are my 90 are white too
LED STRIP PROJECTOR RING MOD
unfortunatly i didnt take much of this.
what i used was a side emitting LED strip that is 20" in length and went around the projector bulb and stuck it on .
HIDz
I used a step tool, or a UNI-Bit to drill my holes
You then run the hid wires out. and used the supplied grommet to seal the hole like so
I had to remove one side of the clip so i could put the bulb holder down correctly like in the pictures.
Power connections:
Tan is ground
Yellow is positive
Projector install onto car
Take the corners off first
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- Each side has 3 10mm bolts
Found it easiest to take the side one off with a finger thru this hole in the side near the fender
You can figure out how to reinstall the headlamps right? The corners are pretty tricky. make sure both tabs slide into the headlamp slots. the next picture will show the seam is virtually seamless. this is when the headlamp and corners are seated right.
tthese corners have T harnesses so the bulb inside the headlamp gets wired up.
NOTE:BULBS ARE NOT INCLUDED WITH THESE HEADLAMPS, SO NO LOW BEAM BULBS, NO HIGH BEAM BULBS, NO TURN SIGNAL BULBS, NOT EVEN THE NEW BULB IN THE HEADLAMP HAS A BULB(it takes a 168 push in bulb)
I honestly dont remember if you can get to this parking light bulb with out first removing the glass from housing and disassemble it to get to it. i think you may be able to get to it thru the high beam bulb hole
another NOTE:
If you had HIDS and figured you can save a step by reusing the twist off covers for the low beam bulb. so you can save 10 minutes and not have to make another hole in the new cover? Dont do it, they will fit, it will seem tight, THEY WILL NOT SEAL TIGHT. I know this because it rained on the way home and i cheated, look at my pictures i used the old covers. I had moisture come in, so will you. use the new ones, dont make the same mistake i did. I did it because it was 5:45pm and i wanted to close up shop and go home by 6pm
Here's first pictures
Videos
Here are all the pictures i took today, if you wanted to see what i did..
http://photobucket.com/abmwriteup
Impressions/review
A little about me, i sell alot of aftermarket lights. Alot of cheap crap and alot of good stuff. TYC,Bosch, Hella, No name cheap cheap china crap. I was a skeptic for many many years about these for my x70's i had over the years. I bought over the years new OEM's, New aftermarket OEM, New 03-04 C70 Jewels, used jewels, used oem and finally my first set of ABM projectors.
I was going to spend $700 of new OEM jewels. Instead, since i never tried this and @ $400 a set (almost 1/2 of the jewels) why not.
I must say i am pleasantly surprised that the light output is great, cutoff is perfect(with the mod of course. cant tell you how it is before). Much better than stock, still cant say i like these better than my jewels. I might change that statement one the HID fogs are in. Since i am comparing a really low C70 with jewels, hids lows and hid fogs to just a stock ride height v70 with only hid low beams. Still love my lights in the xc90(hid low beams, HID high beams, hid fogs, hid reverse, LED reverse LOL)
If you are thinking about doing these headlights, even without the mods.....
If you are thinking about a cheaper alternative than OEM Jewels from a 03/04 C70......
If you are thinking you can cheap out and get HID in the OEM frosty headlamps....
If you think you can see at night, You need to check your headlights and see if the lense has deteriorated and it has little to no more reflective coating inside.
You Need to buck up and buy these lights.
You dont have the money? Save up, charge it, borrow it, do what ever legit means to get it.
You will not regret it, i know i sure didnt and i am a hard man to please.
Have fun!
UPDATE:
The original way these lights come... You will get alternating flashing of the corner lamp and the marker lamp inside the headlight
This following MOD allows for the markers to STAY on with the parking lights and not ALTERNATING FLASH
Cut the black wire coming from the headlamp
Take the black wire you just cut and connect it to the Green / yellow
Also here is the step tool / uni-bit in action drilling a hole into the low beam caps. like i said earlier, dont reuse your old caps from the other headlamps, they will not seal correctly.
Just drill it to the size of your HID grommet
