How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
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Rule 1 - Is that you need to think very carefully before posting anything technical or asking anything technical relating to the security system of the car - See 'Security Issues' sticky for more info.
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
So pleased you don't have to go back to the drawing board!
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
Do you think the circuit could be modified so that the DRLs would just dim while the respective indicator is set, ie without them flashing? I know this is how they work on Audis for example.
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
The circuit is quite literally a black box so without ripping it apart it's difficult to say..if having the DRLs flash did fail the MOT then having them dim on the side that the indicator is flashing would be a good second prize..Mykel wrote:Do you think the circuit could be modified so that the DRLs would just dim while the respective indicator is set, ie without them flashing?
I do like the way the Audis do that..
I can't see how I could accomplish that just fiddling with the wires..even with a relay or two..fortunately I don't have to unless they change the rules!
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
As you say though, disabling the indicator flash function should be straightforward?
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
Oh yes..easy peasy...just disconnect the two wires from the control unit relay thingy to the indicators...
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
Oh nuts - I forgot to look at your car's DRLs on Saturday! D'oh!
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
Another opportunity awaits on Sunday, Rob...assume you are attending?
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
I'll be on the Stowe circuit competing in the Sprint for most of Sunday - it usually finishes around 3 if you're still around?
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
We'll probably still be around at 3....I'll PM my contact details...
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
Great - catch up with you then
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Re: How to fit LED Halo DRLs to my TF
A quick follow up to this thread...just passed the MOT test with these DRLs....a clean pass, no advisories....
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Re: ..and they would pass the MOT too!!!
Brilliant insight of how to, how are they now nearly eighteen months on, has anybody done the same to date.fatbaldingoldgit wrote:I spoke to my local MOT tester today to check whether these lights would fail the MOT. He said that these kind of issues with after market DRLs are well known in MOT tester circles..in this case where the DRLs flash white although in sequence with the amber indicators (so an apparent MOT failure..because they don't flash amber) it would generate an advisory...but it would still pass the MOT..that was an official decision not a discretionary one.
He was very comfortable with how the DRLs operate and saw no real issue with their effect in reality..even though they contravened the letter of the MOT regs.
I'm pleased with that, obviously..coz I think they are just right as they are..and I don't really want to disable the indicator function.
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