Sweet mod.. Looks awesome !

 

read the thread.

no.

 

They aren't illegal...the signal markers on the front/back are required to be amber in color. Most cars don't even have side signals on their mirrors...and as I remember, some trucks have red flashing arrows shown through the glass on the side mirrors.

 

^very true

 

I didnt think so, that was my point. 1/2 the cars and trucks dont have the turn signals in the side mirrors like that, and as long as the front and back are amber who cares...

Its a pain tho to try and change them. I really want to but there is no one i know that can do that.

 

but the light emitting from those arrows are pointing REARward... not to the sides..

 

yeah yeah....well that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

I won't be changing them out anyways...looks too hard. I was in there, taking them apart to smoke-out the glass, and couldn't figure out how to get inside until I saw the posted instructions.

Nicely done, by the way...

 

I know that this write up is mad old, but it still works for the '07's too (big surprise - it seems they are not changing the design for a while... but if it works, why fix it right?)

Anyways. Thanks!

 

Just FYI - the lights on the mirrors that are red are legal because, as stated, they face towards the rear.
Though the law does change from state to state, the general idea seems to be the same. Most laws clearly state the any lights facing towards the front must be white or amber. Any lights facing towards the rear must be white, red or amber. Thus you can have white turn signals in the front and rear and be ok - even if the glass for the bulb is blue, as long as the bulb emits white light.

Furthermore, lisence plate lights are supposedly supposed to be white. But they can technically be red because they face the rear. I am not sure I want to try and argue this though because some cops like to pull you over for that kind of stuff (been there - done that) and I am not sure how well this will hold up in court. If you are going to get a lisence plate light, I would suggest you leave the factory light in place and install a light around the lisence plate that can be turned off by a toggel switch - or even better, a toggle switch that allows you to choose what light you want.

But I am getting off the subject - the law does not state anything about the color of side lights other than they can not be destracting to other drivers. I am not bothered by turn signals... are you?

 

i know i know, this is probably a nOOB question, but how do you get all of your lights to come on??? hi's and low's and parking lights (blinkers and s uch)??? it looks sweet, i have blue, but they only come on when u lock and unlock, how do i make them stay on?
thanks

 

the lows stay on when you turn on your high beams..

 

I dont think that you can, well from what I was told. I think though they would have to be re-wired into our head lights, and you would just leave your head lights on all the time. ( thats what I do since the shut off by themself after you turn off the car and open the door )
But you then wouldnt have use of your turn signals and would have to find out how to disconnect the front from the side markers with you from the front and rear.

 

awesome diy...took me about an hour or so...thanks

 

i kinda want to do this. do you think putting in some luxeon LED would be ok?http://www.luxeonstar.com/item.php?i...rtno=5027-PW14
or
http://www.luxeonstar.com/item.php?i...=7007-PWC-05-3
i also want to clear out the mirror lens so the LEDs can double as roadside luminate as well

 

^^ that would be nice to find out if it works, lemme know if you di it, and getting clears lens sounds cool, how would u go about this?

 

this has been done on the HID forums many times. what you do is start with 100grit sand paper to sand the inner texture side of the lense until smooth. then you wetsand working your way up 220>400>600>800>1500 grit sand paper. finally, buff it with a polishing compound using a rotary tool with a felt wheel. it should look like glass now.

but before i even consider it, i really want to know if the circuit will handle a luxeon LED since those things are about 1watt give and take some. i plan on using 2-3 on each mirror. 2 aiming directly 90 degrees and the 1 aiming at 45 degrees.

 

Yeah, those should work. But from what I have read about the luxeon, I am not sure that the link is what you really want. Those particular ones don't seem to provide too much light as per the lumens rating.... but I could be wrong. I know that some luxeon LEDs can get pretty bright.

However, the majority of your problem will come from the lack of power. The turn signals are designed for a superflux LED, so you are prolly only getting about 3 v.... the higher end luxeon require about 5 v for max output, but will still work with lower voltage only not as bright. Thus, you might be better off just going with regular LEDs.

But, like I said, they should work. At least they shouldn't mess up the circuitry so feel free to try it. Let us know how it goes.

 

are there only 2 wires at the mirror? if i can get to these wires from the kick panel or fuse box, i can run a relay circuit where i can use it's lower voltage to control a higher voltage circuit. then all i need is a 5v voltage regulator to limit current to the mirrors.

updated: i just check the wiring diagram and it looks like there's a resistor inside the mirror lense housing. can someone run a voltage test on the 2 wires that goes into the housing? i suspect they are 12v since that's before the resistor if i am correct. if that's the case, then luxeon's will work by swapping out the resistor for something else or a VR, no relays required.


also... does baking the lense work to open it? i think this was already asked, but i don't think it was answered. thanks a lot!

 

Yeah, there are only two wires that go in there, and I haven't seen a resistor yet - if it's in there, it's hidden pretty well... unless they are using the abundance of metal as a resistor. But I am going to be doing this mod for someone coming up soon, so I will look in there for the resistor and I will check the voltage for you.

Also, the only method that I know of to open these things is by cutting. It's not quite the right material to bake.

 

thanks a lot! keep us posted :D