hey guys as the thumbnail says we're going to be installing those hd motion headlights today on my
is if you guys saw my last video we did a full review unboxing and testing on the bench of all
the different features of the hc motion today we're going to go ahead and put them on the car
once we get the headlights on the car we'll go ahead and put it in the driveway 25 feet from
the door and we'll measure the light levels and see what we get and then i'll compare them to
the vlans and then the islands leds i have on there now and we'll see how the output is and
after that i'll go take it for a test drive and we'll see how it shines on the road so stay tuned
before we get started we want to mark where our headlights are
so we can aim the new ones you also want to mark where you park your car so that way
you can put it back right on the same spot and aim it
all right we got the car up on the lift putting this max jacks
in use got it high enough where i could take the bumper off easily and access the headlights
all right we got the bumper off so we got to take the three screws that take the headlights
off so you got one screw right here on the fender you've got one more right here tucked under this
guy right here so make sure you don't break it just to get that one right there and then you got
one right here and that should be the three that hold it together and then your clip on the side
here your clip on the side is pretty easy you just pop this thing out and you just just bend
this white clip and it just pops that thing right out if you got an older car or one that's been in
the rust belt you might have to wiggle this thing because the pins might be corroded on the inside
like i said earlier just make sure you pop this clip right here out of the fender
a lot of people forget about that and kind of wedge this thing out or they force it out and
they end up breaking this tab right here but you just kind of pop this guy right out of the thing
oh yeah got my depo led retrofits right here those things have been serving me nice for four years
really too because i haven't really barely used them because i was riding on those vlans for a
while but those are gonna be up for sale right there if anybody's interested let me know so my
headlights had all these extra harnesses here for my depots down there that i just showed you
all part of my wiring that i did a lot of it was just wiring power for the drls and other
options that are added onto there your car probably won't have this big old mess of wires
yeah look at that jumbo mess of wire that i just pulled out for my depot custom ones
uh whoever ends up buying this i'll go ahead and just make sure i label everything i go through
the harness again and clean it all up so that way it makes it plug and play on your car so
if you guys recall from my last video on the review there's only two wires that we need to
connect to make these hc motions work we need to connect this one wire right here to the fuse block
and then the other red wire that just fell to the ground right there we have to connect that
to the battery so on my car since i already ran the drl before i have the fuse right here
and i actually have it going through the actual fuse block down to the bottom underneath all this
stuff so i took it all out i ran one wire down to here and it came out right here which is the
blue wire i just ended up clipping it from this application i'm just going to cut the
hc motion one and solder it right here so i don't have to do any work as for the power
for the actual constant power i actually tapped it out of this guy right here uh for your case
on the hc motions you can just go straight to the battery terminal the positive terminal right here
and just tap into this nut right here or there it doesn't matter which one as long as it's on
the battery but mine's already tapped inside of here as you can see right there that little red
heat shrink onto that lug that's where i pulled the power and it's actually coming out right here
and there's an inline fuse that i've got right here and it goes down to the side and then out
right down here so i've got that wire right there so i'm going to use that as my constant
power for this application so i was looking at the harness and it looks like this harness is for
a right-hand drive car just because the way they taped everything together so for our car in the us
you just remove the tape right there because you want the this side of the harness on the battery
side which is up here on the passenger side and then you want the other end of the harness
on that side which is where the fuse block is that's one of the things i noticed to make your
life easier so you don't end up routing these wires all over the place when you don't have to
to fish the wire across the radiator support you want to use that hole right there
pro tip take the fuses out of the atta fuse put it through that hole first before you put the other
harness through and it goes right through easily on this side it's a little bit tighter because the
cable for the hood release is here so you just gotta make sure you wedge it through
there but like i said remove the fuses on here and this thing will slide through slowly
as long as you put it through first before you put the other end right here
so as i was fishing this thing across i noticed that this wire is probably like six to ten inches
too short because the harness actually needs to go right over to here to plug up to the headlight
and then when you put it across the radiator support is barely enough length
to get it through i don't know if they were expecting you to run it across the front right
here but i'd rather run it across the radiator support just because it's cleaner that way so
i may have to extend these hopefully i don't have to there's enough room but it's going to be tight
i made my connections for the drl power which goes up to this fuse right here so
you just add a fuse into that slot and then over here we made that connection
up to there up to my existing power if you guys are doing this from scratch
you just run that same red wire up to there and make that connection
almost jumped the gun and installing those i forgot you gotta transplant your brackets both
those brackets and possibly the metal brackets for the actual harness you got to transfer over
all right got them up they're running now and working
so we'll test them when you hit the unlock it goes into the sequential motion
it stays on for like 10 seconds
then once it shuts off and you hit lock
lock just turns on it doesn't do the animation during the lock
as far as the wiring goes you just gotta tuck the harness under here it doesn't have any provision
to mount that little bar that this thing clips to so you just end up just tucking it right here
uh if you're in an area where it gets wet a lot you may want to make sure this thing doesn't
gather any water or collect any water inside the harness plug on this side the driver side
is a little bit hard to get to when you get into there so just make sure you have your enough slack
in here to work with passenger side you have much more room to work with since there's nothing down
here so you got a lot more room to get everything connected and everything i just tucked it right
here against that harness so as far as adjusting goes right now with the way they set it you can
see the adjustment motor right there and you just get a screwdriver in there and turn that thing
or if you can get a wrench down there maybe a 10 millimeter you could turn that white knob the side
to side you can see that little hole right here on the fender that's where you get the screw right
through there to reach the side to side adjustment the passenger side is a lot easier to get to you
can see it right there next to the intake and then that little cutout on the fender and get
the screwdriver in for the side to side adjustment there so this is actually a better position than
trying to get the oem adjustments so we'll go ahead and go outside and adjust these to the right
height now you can see the initial beam looks pretty good as far as the headlight to headlight
goes it's a little bit low compared to what i had it on so i'm going to go ahead and adjust
it up a little bit to where i had it before just to see how the output on the road ends up being
all right the horizontal adjustment doesn't go anywhere i tried to go in both directions
and it barely moved anything so i'm just gonna leave it as that it is spaced about
the same as my previous ones were i'm gonna pull it back 50 feet and see if they merge
but right now we'll go ahead and take the light levels and see where we're at on these
start right at the cutoff and the step so we're at 250 lux we'll move down down
i mean this is much better than the vlans i can tell you that
yep when we compare it to the vlans it's like half the output these are comparable to my
buy leds nothing close to my d2s is on my is-300 but very respectable as far as output goes
right now we got the bi-led high beams right now
you can see the high beam right there that's where the high-beam output is not that great
yep not as good as a low beam but good enough to
light up the trees and the signs when you're in the back of the dark roads
so about 50 feet back and the beams haven't merged yet like my is-300 but
i think when it goes further down the road it'll merge eventually
you already know before i move any further i'm going to be coating these with some armor shield 9
ceramic coat just to protect them from the sun and from damage if you guys want to get a discount on
some armor shield for yourself check out the links down in the description i have a coupon for 20
off your first bottle check them out it's a very easy diy ceramic coat if you haven't
seen the videos of me putting this on the car go ahead and check out those videos too
all right we got this baby back on everything looks good now the one thing i notice is that
the brackets for this thing for the bumper and everything doesn't snap in correctly anymore
with these lights so the alignment is not that great as far as that bracket goes
because it before with even with my depots they were a little bit iffy on the snapping end but
now they're not even close i could actually see the nub that is supposed to snap into it's about a
eighth of an inch a quarter of an inch off on this side
on this side same thing before on that other one it would snap in properly now it's not
even close which kind of annoys me maybe i'll take it apart and adjust it again one day the
last thing you need to do for this install is to pull the afs fuse if you have hids and afs
on your car as you can see it's pretty easy to pull out it's just one fuse just find it pull
it out and you're good all right we're gonna go for a little spin around the neighborhood as you
can see my neighborhood is pitch black really can't see much out here but we'll go ahead and
see how this looks compared to the is-300 this thing is not gonna be as bright but i
figure it'd be better than those vlans it might be better than those islands as i had on the depots
distance kind of sucks i'm used to the is-300 now that this thing uh is kind of garbage i
for sure i need to aim these up a little bit higher the step is just way too low right
now there's a dark spot maybe like 50 feet in front of me that's the high beam right there
but yeah i definitely gotta aim these a little
bit higher this is kind of garbage on the driver's side
so went back and adjusted the lights up more and it's much better now i can actually see
on the road and that cutoff or the drop off on the step is not as noticeable anymore you can still
see it on the road all the way down all right so i'm trying to adjust the horizontal i discovered
something weird about the horizontal adjustment on this headlight you guys go here and look at
the beam you see right here is there's like a little cut off or a dull line right there and
it's brighter down here and i've been adjusting it trying to go this way but all i've been doing is
lowering that one i think that side screw lowers one of the projectors but not all of them so there
is no horizontal adjustment on this it's only like a vertical adjustment on the main beam and then
that lower beam right there which is one of the other two beams another way you can see the beam
too is right there on the floor you can see those arches right there as you adjust the horizontal
the arch closest to you moves right here and that closes the arch on the outside is that
other adjustment so after messing around with this i got a better idea of which one of these beams
does what now so the middle beam right here does a step so if i cover up the middle beam you can
see it loses the step the inside beam gives you that intensity right at the middle it gives you
the intensity right there right below the cut off you can see when i put my hand over it gets dark
and then the outside does your width so if i put it there you can see the width disappears
on the driver's side for some reason i can't get that inner lens to go up anymore see
it's right there at the bottom that's as high as it goes and then on the outside here that's how i
basically have it as high as i can go there on that width so you can see that and then
the middle is the cut off so i think this is as best as i'm gonna get as far as the output goes
i've got everything lined up it's as high as i can have it without blinding people it doesn't
give me that big dark spot in the middle and i can actually see everything now on the road
with that inner driver's projector lower than the other side you can see where the
high beam or the bi-xenon or bi-led high beam suffers on the driver's side you can see on the
passenger side you get a much bigger beam and a much bigger pattern versus the driver's seat
see with the exposure down you can see the distinct beams from each one of the projectors
i talked to hc motion my headlight right there the left one for the driver's side is defective
so that little spot right there is supposed to be up here where the cutoff is so you get intensity
up there when you're driving so you see over here that same hot spot is right on the cut off
where the intensity needs to be not down here so mine has that white spot or the bright spot
closer to the car instead of in the distance so they're actually going to take care of this and
send me a new drivers one once they send me that driver's one i'll probably make another video
to see what the output looks like see if it matches the passenger side one and how the
output looks downfield ice in my veins i've been driving this train years in this lane there's no
stop in this flame cause i came to the game and i changed it to play how i like rearranged it to my
own domain yeah i got what it takes made lots of mistakes taking shots skipping breaks feeling lost
feeling great popping off singing straight never stop never changed all the squad here to play
and i've got something to say yeah i work hard each and every day i get lost in the words i say
i don't push pods no i push play i won't stop till i make a change i withdraw on the things i make i
turn flaws into flawless traits i build tall never trapping space i won't stop till i hear him say
uh
six am and i'm up again i got tired eyes need a couple blends that's right in the am that's
my only friend no light just the sun coming up on the horizon i lose track of time yeah
hey guys thanks for joining me all the way to the end of this install video on those hd motion
headlights as you can see the output on them is a much better than the old vlans i had on here
and they're about as comparable as the islands as i had on my depots the initial beam that i
had on the road wasn't that great once i adjusted it up it was a little bit better
if you guys are interested in the same headlights check out the links down
in the description i have links to the ebay store that hdmotion has set up and
you can order directly to them right now it's pretty much all shipped from china but i
figure in the near future they're probably going to have usa stock so that way you get it a lot
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