Author Topic: Depo Projector Style Headlights (Read 41913 times)

bad devotions · « **Reply #60 on:** May 26, 2016, 05:51:03 pm »

right then! i have had my Depos delivered and hid kit delivered too.

I was somewhat taken aback by the amount of wires but it all looks pretty straightforward.

A couple of questions though...

1. the wires that come from the Depo are yellow and black. The wires that go from the HID kit to the Depo are red and black. I am assuming that black goes to black and yellow goes to red. Can anyone confirm? (and yes i did RTFM :D)
2. where does the ballast live? looks like there is a similar shaped space/hole under the light unit. I'd need to hack some bits to make the kit fit exactly, but should i mount the ballast there?

any help would be massively appreciated!

thanks

r5gtt · « **Reply #61 on:** May 26, 2016, 06:11:39 pm »

Hi wires do look scary but are straight forward to fit.

holes will be required in the covers approx 22mm
Yes red to yellow and black to black. You can situate the ballasts under there as I did mine the same way but if one or both fail it's off with the bumper and headlight out as I had done. buy cheap maybe get lucky or unlucky in my case

bad devotions · « **Reply #62 on:** May 28, 2016, 12:23:20 pm »

right, got it all installed, wasn't too bad in the end. The only thing that doesn't seem to be working though are the sidelights. Although it's difficult to tell in day light.

r5gtt · « **Reply #63 on:** May 28, 2016, 01:34:33 pm »

Sorry what do you mean don't seem to be working?.

Do you mean the running lights when car lights are on?.

If yes you need to go into vagcom central electric 09 and then into long coding and select one of the bytes can't remember which one. Daytime running lights and set that to what ever percentage you want. I went for 40% lights out put and then press enter on laptop and you'll see that it's selected in the box next to where you typed 40% or your spec. Then X out of it and it should come up another Bix thay says do it click on it and thy will be done

bad devotions · « **Reply #64 on:** May 28, 2016, 02:24:15 pm »

Neither front left or front right parking lights are working. The dashboard is reporting both are faulty. Need to investigate but have another problem now where my bonnet won't open :(

r5gtt · « **Reply #65 on:** May 28, 2016, 02:33:09 pm »

oh sh*te check you messages.

bad devotions · « **Reply #66 on:** May 28, 2016, 04:09:23 pm »

Bonnet fixed, headlights aligned just need to sort the side lights

bad devotions · « **Reply #67 on:** May 28, 2016, 08:53:34 pm »

i'm a numpty.... i didn't realise the side lights are in the same housing as the indicators.... they look like a right pita to get out.

r5gtt · « **Reply #68 on:** May 28, 2016, 09:12:40 pm »

They are

RetroRaz · « **Reply #69 on:** May 29, 2016, 09:05:34 am »

Twist the holder left and right a bit to loosen it then pull it out

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bad devotions · « **Reply #70 on:** May 29, 2016, 02:42:16 pm »

Bought some wonky needle nose plyers to get in there. Passenger side was done in 10 seconds. Need to sort the drivers side when I get home

Can't see squat in there!

r5gtt · « **Reply #71 on:** May 29, 2016, 03:07:29 pm »

Lol its a pita

Try use your phone camera reversed if you can or a piece of mirror so you can see where the bulb is situated then try blind as I did. When I had to replace the led bulbs for normal ones but still have a dash bulb out error for the fronts and now rears as I have the double brake mod done.

bad devotions · « **Reply #72 on:** May 29, 2016, 07:30:51 pm »

The other side ended up being g a 30 second job :)

I just moved a black bottle thing out the way then used the wonky pliers. Easy peasy!

r5gtt · « **Reply #73 on:** May 29, 2016, 07:48:46 pm »

bad devotions

akbarirfan · « **Reply #74 on:** June 07, 2016, 10:30:31 am »

Nice job - have you got a picture of the wonky plier? I want to change my sidelight bulbs but recall what a pain they are to get to!!