2017 Sonic DRL Headlight mod

[SonicSouz]

I was wondering if anyone has taken apart the 2017 headlight to see how the DRL "strip" that runs from the upper outer corner of the housing to the bottom outside corner of the Hi Beam projector is connected/wired. I was wondering if it would be possible to replace it with a universal RGB strip.

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[SnotRocketRS]

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[JTee2017]

The factory DRL looks good to me.

 

[SonicSouz]

The factory DRL looks good to me.

There's nothing wrong with it the OEM look I'm just trying to replace the diodes with color changing ones

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[SonicSouz]

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So from what I found out, you need to cut the headlight open. No heating around that, they're permasealed.

I also found out that the DRL and sidemarker/parkinglight LEDS are integrated on the same board. It looks like they pull power from two different wires.

The black and red wires send power one LED that normally sits by the sidemarker when the assembled and the other two wires power the 6 or 7 LEDs for the DRL accent strip.

I looked up the wire color for the parking lights for the 12-16 models since there's virtually nothing for 2017+ models and it said that the parking lights positive wire was purple/gray for the Leftside. However, I saw two purple gray wires.

I'm guessing one is for the sidemarkers and one is for the actual DRL and that I wired my RGB LEDs to one for the parking lights and now my DRL only turns on at night if I leave the switch in auto. I'll have to try the 2nd purple/gray wire and see if that fixes the issue.

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[SonicSouz]

So heres how they look currently, I'm going to eventually switch to the other parking light wire and also see if I can get the side marker lights working again.

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[SnotRocketRS]

So heres how they look currently, I'm going to eventually switch to the other parking light wire and also see if I can get the side marker lights working again.

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On a scale of 1-10 how hard was it to do this? And can you get the headlights back together no problem?

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[SonicSouz]

On a scale of 1-10 how hard was it to do this? And can you get the headlights back together no problem?

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I'd say it's a 4 or 5 if you learn from my mistakes. You'll have to remove your front bumper fascia to remove the headlights. And like the 2012-16 models DO NOT BAKE. The headlights must be cut open using a hot knife or a rotary tool/dremel with a cut off wheel. I used a $30 Black and Decker Rotary tool for the cutting.

Also don't cut at the lens, cut at the black housing to open them. And make sure you disconnect the connectors on the LED boards before opening if you decide to do this.

By the way, I resealed them with Butyl rubber and SOME $5 epoxy where I cut.

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