C4 Corvette Line Locks Auto X 2011 Schedule
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Article by Fred Jensen For some reason, only known to GM, your C5 (and maybe other generations) turn off your Low Beams when the High Beams are turned on. With stock Pop ups I did not see it as a problem. But, I just installed the DEPO Projector Headlights, mostly as I was tried on the Pop ups and fixing them. As they look installed: The Depot headlights are very good, but the high beams must have been designed thinking the low beams also stay on as these high beams hardly “touch the road” near your car when they are on. However, with lows on and “flashing” the highs lighting is excellent. So, I decided to do a mod to have the lows be on when the highs were selected. I also wanted to do it so even if I wanted to go back the stock Pop ups, I would get all the light my car could provide (all 4 on at once). The below mod works with stock and non-stock headlights for under $15 and is a quick and easy to do. The basic design is to use a relay SPST (single pole / single through about $6 at Radio Shack or elsewhere) to switch on / provide power to the low beams when the highs are turned on. The connections that need to be made from passenger side wire harness are: High beam (black wire) to relay coil Ground (green wire) to relay coil Low beam (Ivory wire) to switched side of coil A wire from the battery terminal under the fuse box cover by the battery to other switched side of coil. (This is where the power to light the low beams comes from, goes through the relay when it is energized / engaged and into the Ivory low beam harness wire and flows to both sides of the car) (Polarity is not an issue, but obviously which of the 4 connections each wire is connected to is) As per the photo everything can be done in the engine compartment on the passenger side. |
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