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Fender2004
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Angel Eyes Power?

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I'm busy installing Southernboy's clear indicators lens covers in the head lights, so while I was on I thought that I would also install some angel eyes. I know that you can power the angel eyes by connecting to the side lights, but you have to have the side light on for the angel eyes to work. If possible I would like the angel eyes to come on with the ignition.

I'm sure I've read on here that you can connect them to the fuse box, (number 21 fuse I think) can anyone give me more information about how you do this? :rtm:
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Yes you can, did mine like this recently although I cannot remember which fuse it was but any that use the ignition circuit should do. It was one at the front of the fuse box, you will need to remove the top cover to access the wires and then join your positive wire from the angel eyes into one of the positive wires connected to the ignition circuit. Then the other wire will go to a ground somewhere.

Gookah did mine, maybe he will be along soon if he can remember which number fuse we used.
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Did you take both sets of wires to the fuse box or join them together and just take one wire to the fuse box?
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The ones I have go into a receiver box as they are LED so only have one power and one ground and then both sets of lights have wires coming from the receiver.

It can be done either way, you can join both angel eyes together and route one wire or do them separately with two wires.
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g8jka wrote:Yes you can, did mine like this recently although I cannot remember which fuse it was but any that use the ignition circuit should do. It was one at the front of the fuse box, you will need to remove the top cover to access the wires and then join your positive wire from the angel eyes into one of the positive wires connected to the ignition circuit. Then the other wire will go to a ground somewhere.

Gookah did mine, maybe he will be along soon if he can remember which number fuse we used.
Fuse 34 I think
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g8jka wrote:Yes you can, did mine like this recently although I cannot remember which fuse it was but any that use the ignition circuit should do. It was one at the front of the fuse box, you will need to remove the top cover to access the wires and then join your positive wire from the angel eyes into one of the positive wires connected to the ignition circuit. Then the other wire will go to a ground somewhere.

Gookah did mine, maybe he will be along soon if he can remember which number fuse we used.
Having a rethink, one of the easiset to get to is fuse 42, which is a 5Amp.
Remove the lid from the fusebox which is four T10 screws and turn it over to expose all the cables, then connect into the Violet/Green wire which is the circuit 'after' the fuse so is protected.
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Thank for all the info but it looks like I'll not be installing them after all as the angel eyes I bought will not fit into the head light, even though they were sold with a photo of a Z3 on the sellers page :head:

I can't ask for my money back as I painted the white wires black so that they wouldn't show up as much within the head light :| so even if I sent them back the company can not sell them to another buyer.
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Fender2004 wrote:Thank for all the info but it looks like I'll not be installing them after all as the angel eyes I bought will not fit into the head light, even though they were sold with a photo of a Z3 on the sellers page :head:

I can't ask for my money back as I painted the white wires black so that they wouldn't show up as much within the head light :| so even if I sent them back the company can not sell them to another buyer.
You can still get the money back... They were sold for a z3, so they couldn't sell them to another seller anyway as the advert is wrong - standard invitation to treat law. (Sorry to sound boring but thems the facts that will get them to accept incorrect advertising)
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I did contact the seller he said that there were 4 types of headlight? (News to me) and I must have the difficult one.
He said that he normally had to make a 2mm gruve in the headlight to make them fit. So if you had to do that it must mean that the angel eyes were a stand size just put into different boxes.
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Fender2004 wrote:I did contact the seller he said that there were 4 types of headlight? (News to me) and I must have the difficult one.
He said that he normally had to make a 2mm gruve in the headlight to make them fit. So if you had to do that it must mean that the angel eyes were a stand size just put into different boxes.
Are you trying to fit them in front or behind the inner lenses? Most if the angel eyes now have to go behind so you need to separate the back part of the headlight as well. Then they are still too large so you have to cut the groove at the bottom of the headlight for them to sit in.
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