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The factory headlight connectors on our cars are horrible at keeping moisture out and prone to corrosion. My passenger side burnt out on me right before winter started and I couldn't find a factory replacement so I had to hard wire it together to get my lights working again. It was a pretty ghetto fix but now that its nicer out I wanted to do it right.
I ordered two of these 6 pin Allstar weatherproof connectors off Amazon, I think I paid around $8 a piece. You only need a 5 pin connection but I couldn't find a set, I think Summit sells them but at a higher price. The 6 pin works just fine.
They're pretty tedious to assemble, I soldered mine but you could probably get by without that step. Each wire has its own rubber gasket making it completely water proof.
I used wire the same gauge as what was on my headlights. Tied the wires together with butt connectors and covered with heatshrink.
Repeat the process with the wires from the car. The purple wire coming from your lights (eagle eyes anyway) are connected to the blue wire from your car. There IS a purple wire wrapped up in the harness but it isn't part of the headlight wiring. In hind sight I should have used a smaller gauge wire, the factory wiring from the car is actually extremely small and using butt connectors made it a little tricky. I would've liked to have soldered everything together but was running short on time and daylight.
Test the lights then clean up the wiring.
Success!
I ordered two of these 6 pin Allstar weatherproof connectors off Amazon, I think I paid around $8 a piece. You only need a 5 pin connection but I couldn't find a set, I think Summit sells them but at a higher price. The 6 pin works just fine.
They're pretty tedious to assemble, I soldered mine but you could probably get by without that step. Each wire has its own rubber gasket making it completely water proof.
I used wire the same gauge as what was on my headlights. Tied the wires together with butt connectors and covered with heatshrink.
Repeat the process with the wires from the car. The purple wire coming from your lights (eagle eyes anyway) are connected to the blue wire from your car. There IS a purple wire wrapped up in the harness but it isn't part of the headlight wiring. In hind sight I should have used a smaller gauge wire, the factory wiring from the car is actually extremely small and using butt connectors made it a little tricky. I would've liked to have soldered everything together but was running short on time and daylight.
Test the lights then clean up the wiring.
Success!
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