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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Roarin_8
I wanna use them all the time , which wire do I connect the halo red wire to on the DRLs? Gonna do this tomorrow and it should only take 5 min.

I believe the wires were blue brown and black. Black is ground though.

I would take the time to solider the wires.

No way did it take me 5 minutes to take off the lights then put them back on to solder the wires.

Also the black rubber trim came off on mine, so I had to reglue it and even now part of the black rubber stick out a little on the edges.

Also you have to be very carefull when and if you losen your fender bolts to properly fit your headlights, because if not payed attention to alighment, the halo lights will leave a gap that is not aligned with the outer hood/fender lines.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 02:28 AM
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how do you turn off the automatic light sensor? thats been bothering me for years!!!
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 08:00 AM
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nice bro, I just bought halo's for my black SS, good to see what its gonna look like when I get em on


how about a day time shot?

God I can';t wait to get my car back and see this with the 3 inch ss hood to
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by MasterCraft
nice bro, I just bought halo's for my black SS, good to see what its gonna look like when I get em on


how about a day time shot?

God I can';t wait to get my car back and see this with the 3 inch ss hood to
I took my sweat *** time no hurry I think after having to readjust some things and soldiering the wires I think it was 1 hour job.

Night driving is where you are going to be able to adjust you headlights for road viewing. Be preprared on a little gap showing at the bottom -not to bad after I added washers- but the look will be well worth it.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 03:42 PM
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where's the best place to get halos? are the ones on ebay worth a ****?
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by raginazn616
where's the best place to get halos? are the ones on ebay worth a ****?

I have heard the ebays ones are good, but I got them at k2moter.com
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 04:16 PM
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are they good headlights? are they known to leak or anything?
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 04:27 PM
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Mine don't leak. I don't have experiance with the ones from ebay.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 04:30 PM
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I haven't heard of any one buying bad quality halos and my general belief was that most people on this forum buy from ebay, or at least thats what I gathered from doing searches and reading reviews on here about the halos
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by ChaseSS
how do you turn off the automatic light sensor? thats been bothering me for years!!!

I got this one...


The VERY easiest way is to take out the stereo and reach up and behind the black DRL box to yank out the light sensor itself. It's the wire that's right next to the blinking red light alarm LED on the top of the dash. Just take the sensor and put it in a safe place...no more auto headlights.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:13 PM
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Hey that's good to know, I finished my halo wiring and it took me 10 min. I didn't need to take out the headlight harness again because I just needed to get to the wires. I do have a gap on both sides, its worse on the passenger side though and I used the stock brakets. I'll adjust them when I can. I wired the halos to the fogs instead, now I'm going to take that sensor out. Here are some pics and someone asked for a daytime shot so here it is with my smoked corner lights and yes the halos are on in that pic.







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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:15 PM
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And another closer up

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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:21 PM
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man that looks bitchin
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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You know, the corner lights were ALOT easier than these headlights. Thanks for the compliments.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 09:34 PM
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 11:38 PM
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Disabled the automatic headlights just now. It was a bit more than just yanking it out. Yanked it out and ripped the little housing where the sensor and alarm light go onto off the bottom of the dash. Now I gotta glue that back on when there is some daylight. Didn't know that the sensor has to be twisted and then it comes out. Then after that, used another wire tap to short the sensor out, bam no more auto headlights.
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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 11:39 PM
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those look really good. i might have to get some for the SS. with the SS, i think ill get a fog light switch and wire up the halos to it.
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Old Sep 5, 2005 | 12:12 AM
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I have 1 empty slot and potentially 2 others if I take the camaro plate off. I'm going to use the one free one for my line lock though. And I like the camaro plate on there. I'm happy with the way it sits now, just a few minor tweaks to fit the lights with the body and this project is done.
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