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I bought these fog-lights on a local advertising site:
The nice thing about these, is that they have these guards in front of them. Those will nicely “hide” the DRL’s.
Then I bought these DRL’s through the german ebay:
This DRL kit consists of 2 x 10 small round LED’s with a 2 cm diameter. The kit came with a drill for drilling the holes. Sadly the holes where just a little to small, so I had to file the 20 holes a bit to make the ligths fit.
The kit also came with the before mentioned module, but that’s not in the picture. It’s a little black box with wires coming out of it.. you get the picture… 🙂
The glass of the fog lights were attached with sealant. I carefully cut away the sealant and then I could gently pry the glass from the housing. Then I used the glass as a mold for the plastic inserts that will hold the DRL’s and will fit in the place where first the glass was.
I used the guard to draw the grid on it, and precisely determine where the holes for the DRL’s had to be drilled. I screwed the piece of plastic to a left-over piece of chipboard to make sawing the thin plastic easier. I then first drilled the holes, and afterward sawed out the insert with a jigsaw:
Then I made some support tabs inside the fog light housing. The insert will be screwed to these tabs.
And I put the DRL’s lights in and glued them to the insert with a hot glue gun:
Because there wasn’t enough room inside the fog light housing for all the connectors, I cut them off and soledered the wires together:
I’ve now got 40 waterproof connectors in surplus.. 🙂
And done!:
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