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Old Aug 23, 2017 | 09:20 AM
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Alright fellas tell me what you think. This concept took about a week of thinking and about a full weekend of fabbing up. I was tired of looking at the fogged up running lights and burning up bulbs every now and then. Plus I wanted something of my own design. I know it's not the best and I'll probably redo them in another configuration but they work just like stock. Didn't spend too much either, more time than anything. Bring on the comments, positive or negative.


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Old Aug 23, 2017 | 11:01 AM
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It is different, undecided on it.

How did it affect parking lights and turn signals?
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Old Aug 23, 2017 | 11:22 AM
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Again, everything works like stock, almost. I used an electronic flasher relay (EL12) so no hyper flash. The only thing I goofed on was, when I turn the headlights "on" the drl's turn "off" but the turn signals still work. Work in progress.
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I'm putting halo rings in my DRL's, just did the driving lights and they turned out great.
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Old Aug 24, 2017 | 04:41 PM
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I'm working on redoing my front end the DRL will be halos and I hope to have to middle blink for the turn signal. I also have halos around the fog lights.



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Old Aug 25, 2017 | 08:14 AM
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To the OP, if your in a parade it looks O.K. but for the street it looks chessy.


But it your car, you do what you want.
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@FRECHKN - were did you get your halo rings? i like them
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Old Aug 25, 2017 | 12:32 PM
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My fog lights are Hella 90mm. I have ebay Chinese Halos around them 102mm rings I had to trim a little.
the DRLs I'm still working on are 60mm I believe, same thing I went on ebay bought cheap ones.
My goal is to send the cheap ones to SuperbrightLED or Oracle and get some RGB style I want to be able to color change them mainly get the outer halos to match the headlights, that will keep them from seeming tacky (multicolor lights) if we work with our body lines and keep everything uniform small mods like this look like they belong on the car.IMO
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