hey guys welcome back to the channel so as the title says i finally got my hc motions in the
middle and we're gonna be installing today so you saw a couple weeks ago
i removed my old vland tail lights to install the stock ones back on that video was pretty
highly viewed just for me removing those so today i'm actually go ahead and unbox them
do a quick review see all the details in them and then install them on the car so stay tuned
the first thing we're going to do is go ahead and unbox this baby and see how it looks
pretty much packaged just like the vlands it comes with instructions a bunch of resistors
that it comes with so we'll have to figure out what these are all for we've got the wire harness
these are between the trunk and the outside so you get the sequential motions with the inner piece
they come with the actual harness that plugs into your car that's good the switch i think the switch
lets you turn off the different modes on here and then it's got the built-in resistors for the turn
signals i don't know why they have the resistors on the inside because it's not the turn signal
unless it's for the sequential part of it because it goes between the trunk and the outside now with
the sequential obviously we got the outside pieces yeah it looks pretty good it has the
same plug that plugs into your oem with a little switch to turn it on and off you got the rubbers
here the only thing that it's missing and i read this on the reviews before i got the was a little
weather strip between here you could take it off your oem tail lights and just glue them on
here i have another solution where i'm using a rubber gasket for a lip that i had laying around
other than that it looks pretty good so these things look pretty damn good their quality
so far just looking at them is just as good as the vlands if not better as far as the clarity and how
everything looks the instructions over here are obviously chinese with an english translation
i figured out what all these resistors for they said that if your car still hyper flashes
you might need a bigger resistor so they included three different resistors in case you have that
issue with yours and then these wires obviously i mentioned earlier for the sequential between the
inside and the outer which is not something that comes with oem i won't need them for sure because
i have a led flasher on my car already but if you still have your conventional flasher you might
need these depending on if you have an older model or a new model is with how much resistance is in
there then i figured out on the back side here why the resistors on the inside instead of outside
since we have a sequential on this they actually pass the signal through over here onto the other
side so that's why the resistors here and not on the outside like you would expected if i had
this turn signal on the outside here and for some of you guys on my other video that asked me about
the fog light so this light actually uses these three right here on the inside as a fog light
and the thing comes pre-wired already if you have a non-usdm car which i think in europe
is required to have a taillight fog light it's already pre-wired so all you really have to do
is connect it up you know use those three right there as a fog light so both sides have that
already so you shouldn't have to worry about that as far as fog light goes i know depending on the
model year you have as far as the oems and the style tail lights they use different parts of
the tail light as a fog light earlier ones had a separate section for fog light and then the newer
ones they use different parts of the brake light as the fog light so i'll go ahead and take some
pictures and show you guys some up close of the front and back and then we'll start the install
so as i mentioned earlier i'm going to use this part number right here which is off like an 07 or
06 camry sport and it's the rear lip little trim with the kit that comes with that thing so this
goes between the lip and the bumper to protect it it's the perfect shape it's like a t-shaped rubber
with some 3m double-sided tape that fits perfectly in that groove i'm gonna go ahead and tape that on
for that added protection to keep that water and moisture from the edge of those tail lights so
we'll go ahead and fit this onto here first what i want to do is just get it the right size cut it
make it a little bit longer than you need you could always just trim it later
so you want to stick it with the tape side to the red because that's going to get through the
most surface area i'm going to peel the orange sticker off exposing the 3m gray
just start on the corner here and just kind of wedge it in there
yeah you just want to tuck it into there for now and then you don't want to stick it yet until you
have it all perfectly aligned you did with that so that's a nice good seal there i'm
gonna take a little one of these little wedge pry tools and just kind of push the back of
it so it sticks to the lens and once it goes on the car it should wedge against the body
there it is added a little weather stripping right there so we got to do the outside part now this
one's going to be a little bit harder because a much longer and then we have to curve down to
maybe like an inch around the curve here and that curve is going to be the hard part to try to get
this thing through it should be the same as that other side where we just wedge it against the red
start on this side first and then we'll pull it around
this time i'm going to do a little different on that side i think i'm going to just
hold it down first pull the tape i just pull it as i go
kind of like how you're supposed to do spoilers too you use 3m tape
all right so we got all four of those things on there nicely as you can see it's got a good seal
now all around the edges right there so the one thing i noticed on the version i got it looks
like they notched out the top and the bottom there for the 2006 to 2008 trunk lids i know some of the
early versions of this didn't have that notch and you had to bend the metal on your actual
car to remove the taillights there's three screws up here and three screws for that that hold it in
uh to take this apart you basically have to remove all the clips on here don't make the mistake that
i always do and unscrew the fourth one because the fourth one holds this panel on on the ones
back here you just you have to remove this little hook right here and then in this clip right there
and you should be able to fold this back and have access to the screws there the wire harness is
down here so i'm gonna go ahead and take all this apart and i'll show you guys the details inside
so here we got it so this is one of the harnesses for the center that one that you can see that's
the screw for the panel and that's the screw for the light right there now the two screws on the
outside so those are pretty easy down here once you take the clip out right there and the hook
over here this thing just bends back and you get the access to three holes right there so
down there you'll see the harness plugged into the body right there and you can just pop that out and
just plug your new harness in one of the things we have to do is we have to run that sequential wire
through this thing there's teeth that grab both sides that go clamped in so it's a little bit hard
so as i said earlier look at that they did notch it out perfectly so i don't have to
bend these two little thingies right here if you happen to get a version that doesn't
have the notches you just have to take some pliers bend this inward
and you'll fit the tail lights under there i put the one on this side it fits pretty snugly once
i bolt it down it should fit better that gasket that i put it doesn't sit the same as the oem but
it works and it provides a little seal right there so hopefully that holds and that's good
so as i mentioned earlier with the fog light since this is a usdm car we only have three of
the four wires that go on here but on the taillight side there's actually a fourth
wire which is that green wire and that's going to be your probably your fog light
there the other wires of the ground the reverse light and the parking lights and brake lights
the outer tail light comes out pretty easily the trick to getting that harness out is basically you
need a like a little pointy or tiny screwdriver and just push down from the top here to release
that clip once you put that flat head or that that pointy screwdriver right there you just pull the
harness straight out and it should be good don't go breaking anything by trying to force it out
another little detail i just noticed is since these tail lights bulge out a little bit more
that little lining right here doesn't fit as well and snug right into there like the
oem tail light or even the vlands i believe the vlands had matched this curve perfectly
where so now you can see there's about a quarter inch to a half inch gap right there between this
spacer and the lens it's no big deal it's more aesthetics when the trunk lid is open
so popping that cover wasn't as hard as i thought there's actually
three sets of clips one on each end one in the middle and then one down here then it's got like
a little tooth on there that kind of holds it onto these things in here so you just kind of
pry it a little bit just got to be careful see those little white marks right there
they were caused by too much force but i was able to get it out without really breaking
anything so these should snap right back on just be careful when you're doing that
on the trunk side as far as fishing the wire goes you can basically
plug it up and then fish it through the back side and then there's a hole right here by the arm
that just goes right perfectly along the arm and it goes down the arm and then you just go
through the panel and right down there and plug it in i'm gonna go ahead and zip tie this with
some wire management to get it all nice and neat and then we'll put the covers back on so we got
everything zip tied and managed all the wires go through here i used the existing holes on the arm
just to zip tie it on so it goes down to there you just gotta make sure that this thing freely swings
and there's enough slack at the bottom because the arm actually goes further in so you need some
slack there and you just pull it over to here and just plug it into the side over here down there
and then just if you want to you could zip tie some more back there to get some wire
management i'm just going to kind of leave it loose and hanging back there because it's
not really interfering with anything same with this side this side you have the trunk harness
already so i just zip tied it to the mounts for the trunk harness and it's just following that
oh yeah there we have it look at that looks good as hell on here now i haven't put everything back
together yet i just went ahead and just checked the gaps and checked everything and it looks spot
on right now so i'm gonna go ahead and turn on the lights and see how this baby looks
so this thing comes in basically two modes so you just push this once to set it into one mode and
then again to set it back to solid so show mode is when it comes on and animates every time you
turn on your parking lights and then just on it'll never animate or do any of that the non-animate
selection also doesn't do the sequential turn signals it just does straight solid turn signals
hey guys thanks for joining me all the way to the end of this video on installing these new
hc motion tail lights on my car this is a huge upgrade from the vlands with the new sequential
signals that match my vland headlights even though those are going to be given away soon once i get
around to that if you guys are interested in these same tail lights that i got i'll leave
some links down in the description both for ebay and for aliexpress i got these from aliexpress
they shipped in about four weeks from the time i ordered them until the time i got to my door
it was pretty quick considering all the supply chain and shipping issues right now so i was
pretty happy with that with all these different projects i do on my cars or my house or in the
garage if i can do it you guys can do it too that's why i make these videos so you guys can
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