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Old Sep 6, 2014 | 09:43 AM
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R53 2003 Driving Light... which headlight wires

Hi guys, I searched but can't find a cut and dry answer (unless I'm missing something)
I'm about to dig into the wiring for my ff500 Hella driving/fog lights and to keep it legal, the Driving lights need to hook into the 12v High Beam lead and the Fog lights into the 12v Low Beam lead.

Could one of you please share the color code of these two wires?
The internet searches I've found over the last two days have been frustrating to say the least

You'd be saving my *** with the extra help.
Thanks in advance!!!
Kev
 

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Old Sep 6, 2014 | 11:56 PM
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High beam wire is green/yellow IIRC.
 
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Old Sep 7, 2014 | 08:44 AM
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Thanks Eric.
Any idea of the Low Beam color?
 
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Old Sep 10, 2014 | 09:17 AM
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After seeing that so many viewed the thread and only one reply I wanted to update this today. Just finished hooking everything up yesterday and it works as planned. Thanks to my new FB pal Drew for saving me allot of time and worry...
WIRE COLORS VARY guys!!!

Eric was correct on the wire color for mine but yesterday I found out that some Highbeams leads are Grey too, so....

What's important is the location of your High & Low beam wires on the 9 prong plug. If you pull the plug off of one of the Headlamp units the Highbeam lead is #6 and the Lowbeam is #9.



Mine ended up being as follows
Highbeam Yellow/Green
Lowbeam White/Green


Hopefully this saves some head scratching for someone else down the line.
 
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