Hella lights installation

Hella 5. Description Customer Reviews Finally! Especially for cars that came with the very basic Sealed-Beam style stock headlights, which are horrible, especially by today's standards. Previous solutions involved higher wattage bulbs, which can melt your wiring due to the added heat and stress. Other solutions involve either converting to expensive and hard to find ellipsoid style lights, or hokey hack-job solutions with poorly controlled light output.

We've seen and tried some of the Xenon and LED conversions out there for classics like the E30, E24 and E28, but they aren't the engineered solution we'd want for ourselves. The OE lighting supplier to BMW, and trusted lighting manufacturer since literally the s , to be exact. Hella is is known as a pioneer of automotive lighting technology, with advances in halogen, xenon, LED and even laser light.

Plastic Cable ties, very cheap but handy. Steel Clamps, These are from my work we used these to clamp Fibre Optic cable. Couple of No. Measuring tape Table Drill and lathe machine I used a friend's friend place near his service center. Images Enjoy!! PS: Sorry couldn't take too may images of the install this time, as it was too damn hot and had to check too many things on the car.

Knocked off screw on the Cross Member. Final Install!! My mechanic friend asked why install a steel rod instead of just mounting on the screw that was bolted on chassis. Well i am a computer guy with Physics degree. Principle is simple, and same way as strut braces work.

Will pay for everything if some good souls here buys and ships it to me. Thanks for taking time to read. View My Garage. Really nice effort as a DIY! But IMHO - its spoiling the looks of the car. The rod and the brackets on either side of the number plate looks out of place on an otherwise curvy car.

Would have suited those Indicab's, but no - not a brown Ritz. Neatly set up, Sir Alec. For all my DIY's I try to avoid cutting anything - especially the visible areas. While you have done cuttinf of the bumper, it is still very neat. I Liked the way you have set up the switch. I need to mount 2 switches in my Sumo, but am not finding a place the switch bank is already full, with OE stuff.

Same with the Ikon - not able to find a place to mount the switch for the aux lamps. Normally open relays Wipe-wash interval relays Time relays Other relays.

Clamps Insulating tape Cable ties Heat-shrink tubing Battery-terminal clamps Earthing straps Solder connectors Piggy back spade connectors Cable junction boxes Crimping and squeezing pliers Cable connectors Cable connector sets.

Horns Trumpet horns. Plugs Sockets Plug housings Adapter cable. They were especially developed to cope with the requirements of rugged situations, because people who expose themselves and their vehicles to hardship and exertion must be able to rely on their lights whatever the circumstances. I like having mine wired into the high beams, one less switch to flip when you have oncoming traffic, just my preference. My issue is my lights flicker when I turn the headlights off.

Just wondering why they are getting power briefly? I tapped through the Left High beam fuse under the hood. Thanks for your time everyone! Not sure on that issue. Maybe make sure all your grounds are connected well?. Some residual power somewhere? Are you using a relay? They can also go bad and cause flickering from what I understand. Hope this helps. Okay sounds good. I am running the hella relay that comes with the kitt. I will re check my connections and grounds.

Thank you for your insight, I appreciate it. Originally Posted by SlickTR4. I appreciate your response. When the driving lights are switched on, I installed a toggle switch on the trigger wire to the relay The driving lights will flicker when I turn my headlights from on to off. No dash lights or indicator's flickering either. They do not flicker when I turn the headlights on. The lights operate properly with the high beams and ect.

I tapped my left hand high beam fuse for the trigger wire.