installed my Euro Smileys with motors

[attack eagle]

For anyone interested, basically color match the wires from the motors to the switch pigtail, black to black, brown to brown, yellow to yellow. Add a ground to the brown wire and 12+ to the yellow, and you have control...

Hurrah for stepper motors! To test the motors apply 12+ to yellow, and ground to borwn for one way, and apply 12+ to black and yellow, brown still to ground for the reverse motion.







black wiring, black car, black of night... not conducive to good pictures.



Forgive the poor quality (and unwashed car), I'm either working in 1/2 direct sunlight, 1/2 shade, or at night. Neither one is conducive to good picture taking on automatic, with or without flash.





Taking it one side at a time...

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1352.jpg




Harness before heatshrinking. It's 18ga wire in extra thick insulation (trailer harness). I figured if it can take the abuse of being exposed on a trailer, underhood should be child's play, especially after heatshrinking it.
PLus it was a LOT cheaper ($12) better insulated and more compact than buying 3 individual wires at autozone etc.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1353.jpg




bringing the now heatshrunk harness out for light motor 1


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1354.jpg




after heatshrinking everything to look as factory as humanly possible



http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1355.jpg

[attack eagle]

one side working, no check errors!!!



http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1358.jpg




City lights instead of parking lamp.


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1359.jpg






No more US spec

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1360.jpg




The switch. 0 to 1 is not a huge difference, but 1 to 2 or 2.3 (it goes a little farther than 2) IS a huge difference. I'll try to shoot some vid when I get around to plugging the headlight back in on the driver's side.



http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1335.jpg

Still need to go finish buttoning everything up. I just didn't feel like working on it with all the wind today. At some point I will take them back off and use SEM chipguard on the lenses.

[LunatiC]

Well done! And welcome to what the rest of the world already has ;)

*loves city parking lights :p*

[CharlesAFerg]

Dude, you've got some messed up rain wherever you live... Do you live next to a power plant or something?

[Elekta]

What's wrong with city light and parking light in blinker? That's the way mine was installed.

Now if you get a tow package, you can use the motors as intended.

good job

[attack eagle]

Dude, you've got some messed up rain wherever you live... Do you live next to a power plant or something?


That's not rain, that's from the tap water here.

IT makes washing a black car a real pain since you have to wash at night and dry it to avoid hard water spots, then wax to get rid of the ones that do turn up.

[Boone.Msi]

water spots are a bitch...

Nice Job!;)

[Macv]

Very well done. Much better than US spec

[indymdm]

get a water softner makes a huge diffrance helped me a lot with water spots and oh yeah the new lights are a very nice touch

[attack eagle]

Finished... and washed!!!


Parking lights off

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1363.jpg



Parking Lights On

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/AttackEagle/bimmer/100_1364.jpg