DIY - Euro Ellipsoid Headlight Installation

[ob_318is]

Okay now I am wiring my city lights from the side markers, and fuse 23 keeps blowing ;x

[ob_318is]

Has anyone ever tried to splice the city lights to the turn signals?
Seems to be similar to the side markers. Three wires..., ground, one constant power (parking lights), and one that blinks (for the indicator).

I wired my city lights this way, one wire to the ground on the turn signal, and another to the constant power (parking lights)... this works fine on the driver side, when I do the same wiring to the passenger side and turn the lights on, fuse 11 blows. this always happens and only when the passenger side is wired up.

Is it possible for the ground on the passenger side to be different from the ground on the driver side? Would appreciate input and help, thanks.

[TexasE30]

Installing my US ellipsoids today, Which blue/white wires that I covered up for high. I know there are 2 of them. Does it matter? I did tried use them both into one. It works but the bulb got hot fast, so I know I did something wrong with high. Thanks.

[Mastrcruse]

I thinking of upgrading from sealed beams to regular US ellips. Is this thread all apply to the US ellips or are they a little different. I know they don't have the city lights but what do I need to do or leave out in the description in this thread?

[Rhys]

I have installed euro smileys on my 87 325 is. The low beams and cities are working fine. The highbeam light in the dash and the high beams are coming on as soon as I turn the low beams on, and stay on no matter which position the high beam switch is in. Unlike the write up I have two positive wires going to my high beams instead of one and each wire shows a reading of 6 volts. This reading of 6 volts appears wether the high beam switch is on or not. Any ideas?

[Kwaaahhh]

Ok thanks! Guess I'll leave those 4 wires alone and do the jump relay tomorrow. :up:

[LovableSheep]

I believe the two wires are because the sealed beams have two filaments in each low beam, and when you turn on the high beams, it switches to the other filament in the low beams.

When I hooked my lights up, I kept the factory sealed beam connector and crimped spade connectors to the end of the ellip wiring harness. Then I just plugged everything in. There were three possible slots to connect to on each sealed beam low-beam connector, and two connectors coming from the ellips, so the one for the second filament didn't get anything plugged into it. I then did the relay jump so all the lights would stay on at once.

[Kwaaahhh]

Thanks, BTW installing the sealed beams on the 89 was actually simple, I bridged the extra white (one of the dual filament wires to the white on the low beam connection) therefore resolving the "all four lights on while the high beam on situation" I didn't bother taking pics or whatever cause I don't imagine anyone doing/having too, that... Thanks again for you help.

Wonder if this is what I have to do?

[Kwaaahhh]

OK thanks Jason. So what function do you think the 2 extra wires are for?

[JasonC]

Kwaaahhh, you'll have to do that relay jump that i was talking about in post #47.

[Kwaaahhh]

Hey guys, so today I went out and wire up my sealed beam to US ellipsoid. It was pretty much straight forward (the pigtails and my stock wiring were the same color), except the low beam had 2 of the same color wire. So I pretty much try each one, until I was able to get the bulb on. The high beams are also straight forward (also the pigtails were same color to my stock wiring), but there was one wire left. So here's my question, the 2 extra wires on my car are the same color. Could it be possible that those 2 should wire up to each other in order to have the low stay on when high beam is ignited? If not what do I do in order to have my low stay on when highs are ignited? Thanks! Here are some pics:

Testing which wire to power the low:


The extra wire from the low beam:


The extra wire from the high beam:

(Notice how the high and low extra wire are the same color)

the 2 extra wire side by side:

[One21Two]

Nice, thanks for the post. Should have done mine that way.

[///M42 sport]

OK heres a SUPER EASY way to hook up your ellipses. No splicing involved.

1 take out your sealed beams.

2 attach male prongs to harness wires

3 plug these into the sealed beam harness



As for the city lights, the same principle applies. You just plug into the sidemarker harness.

I did the wire jump this morning. It works great. I I have a hard time raising them up. Theyre pointed down, DAMIT.

I just adjusted mine with some washers behind the screws where you screw the lights in and tighened them accordingly.



In regards to your lights: I am going to do mine in a few minutes. If it worked with you i should have no problem. Did you use copper or aluminum wire. Does it matter? I have a ton of copper wire of different gauges

[ian e30 318is]

Have fun doing it cause they are hard to take out.

oh i will. haha