HID Headlight Bulbs / HID Projector Retrofit

onsteder · January 30, 2015

Removed....doublepost.

Edited January 30, 2015 by onsteder

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

The only thing that is bothering me is that I kinda rushed installing them so when you look at the front it's not perfectly centered

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

The projector u see on the table is the stock projector and the projectors you see on the truck are the 3 inch fxr bi xenon

onsteder · January 30, 2015

Thanks for the pix......I just went out and looked at mine....not really any difference in the gap between the projector and the housing. I agree with the centering....that would bother me too.

How do you like your dmax otherwise?

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

I love it !!! But I don't think that the uncenter changes the light output

onsteder · January 30, 2015

I've not had a chance to check it out yet since I don't have a garage and its too cold to work outside, but how difficult is it to remove the headlights? Do you have to pull the grill or are there just bolts above and below the light?

I plan to tackle this job some weekend in my in-laws garage but I like to know what I am getting into before I start. I have to make sure I can get it done before the weekday since it is my wife's daily driver

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

1 remove the clips that hold the pastic trims under the hood

2 remove 4 bolts on top of the grill

3 there are 4 pastic tabs where the 4 bolts are that are holding the grill to the top. For this u need to lift the piece that the 4 bolts were holding down and back(lift up and bring the tabs back over the metal)

4 reach your hand behind the grill and start hitting the grille from the inside out popping the clips out from behind the grille. Make sure u get the few at the bottom then lift the grille up and out

5 remove the 3 screws you see holding the housing to the frame

6 remove the 2 bottom torx screws from the front of the wheel well plastic liner .... reach behind the bumber and remove the 4th headlight housing screw

7 one last tab holding the headlight the the truck .... take a flat head.. locate the upper most portion of the housing that connect to the truck should be the on that's next to the top fender..... press the meter in between the past with the flat head and pull the light out

8 unplug the connectors and there you have it

What I love about this truck is that the lights come straight out unlike my 2007.5 silverado 3500 hd where the light had to be slid out and some extra stuff needed to be taken apart this truck is so oooo much easier !!!!!

onsteder · January 30, 2015

Thanks for the info. I've watched a video on how to replace the grill so these instructions make perfect sense.

Sounds like it will be much easier than the 20hours i spent installing my Webasto coolant heater

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

Sorry if they didn't initially it's freezing outside or else I would have taken more pictures

latronbj · January 30, 2015

hello im new to this site and need some info on installing fx r 3.0 on 2015 Silverado with projectors heard about drilling the bottom to holes but any other info would be helpful such as what size and length screws how many washer s and were they were placed on projectors in front are on back also do I need splitters on highs on high beam

Evolution4935 · January 30, 2015

Post 901 should mostly help you there ..... I used splitters from TRS ..... and I guess each set up is different I didn't have to use that many washers .....

EaZ8 · January 30, 2015

Yes you can, my 35w kit has a capacitor built in the ballasts, no relays to the battery at all. I am sure you suffer performance loss from this though...

I got my 55w working, found a local shop that sells 55w ballasts too.

I am using one capacitor inline to the signal of the driver side so it retains the relay connection. Working fine for 2 days now.

Coming from both kits, I would recommend the relay and capacitor, HIDs are not going off and on as much as it keeps it on for close to half a second when signal goes off

ive run a lot of HID's over the years, luckily my vehicles never needed the harnesses as my DRLs were always wired to a different bulb.

but every other kit ive put in that needed the relay harness has had issues.

ive used DDM, Doop, VVME, some ebay ones... and i dont even know what else.

i just bought VVME for my sierra, with the harness and im going to give it a go, but what i really want to do is figure out how to get the ecu/bcm changed to run 12v for DRL's. in a couple months im going to talk to the dealership shop foreman. there has got to be a way to do it.