Originally Posted by Riff Raff
me? - I'm just a hacker...
who'll try anything
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Anyways, here's a copy of my PM:
Chime in people if I'm off the grid here.
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mikemol:
No prob. It's been years since I did this, so I'm going with splotchy memory...
For your headlights, it's a bit of a wiring job. I have an HID kit that makes things a bit easier... But for stock wiring it may be a bit harder. I had a dealer do mine and it cost $600 because he went to the root next to the steering column and used a series of relays to keep the low/high beams operational. Waste of money, I disabled that after a year.
First off, I would try to get your fog lights rated as your DRL, not the headlights. Not sure who's going to fill out the RIV paperwork, a dealer? or Canadian Tire?
If you get a hard time due to brightness, try to put in Hella Micro D or similar fogs in place of the stock. For me I run LED fogs as my DRL, no complaints yet.
The ON/OFF/ON/OFF on the headlights burnt out my HID bulbs too much - very $$$.
If you're doing the wiring yourself, it may be possible to tap into the existing wires with relay(s) run off the ignition wire. You'll have three wires going to your headlights, low beam - high beam - ground (i think). Use circuit tester to measure voltages in lo/high modes to identify them.
Insert a relay in the lo beam wiring (one relay to both headlights) the 12V power to the low beams should now come from a distribution block off the (+) battery terminal, not the lo beam switch from the steering column. Tying in the ignition wire to the relay will then close the circuit to the lo beams when the car is turned on.
For high beams, leave the wires in place, when you turn on the high on the steering column, it should then run 12V to the HL.
Preferably you'll add inline fuses (20A?) to the hot hires going back to the headlights to protect the ignition wire.
The ignition wire I tied into is in the wire cluster next to the power steering fluid reservoir. I think it's a blue with red strip - depending on the VX year. Use voltage tester. I'll take some pics.
Let me know how it turns out.
As for the miles to kilometer on the speedo - useless.
There is no gauge cluster you can put in to replace the Vehicross cluster. The typical solution for the dealer is to put stickers on the speedo to indicate that the ODO is in "miles" and put little numbers next to the miles as kmh equivalent. (i.e. "100 km/h" sticker next to the 60 mph tag.) My dealer thought it was dumb, so he just ticked off on the form that he did do it, but didn't. In the end I put in glow gauges that had Km/h and mph. (FYI - these are hard to find now)
I did it more for the look as opposed to getting km/h.
The dealer is also expected to put on French seatbelt, tip over, air bag labels too. Mine again didn't, but just ticked off on the form that he did.
Yours is a 1999, so it will also need child safety hooks in the floor behind the rear seats for RIV approval . Only 2001 came with them stock.
Good Luck. Let me know if you need more info...
Ken
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