Zkw Wiring!!! Help!! - United Bimmer Community

**Spieluhr** · 04-28-2005, 09:46 PM

dude, i am fed up with umnitza. my ZKW's w/ DDE came w/ NO wiring diagrams, and when i called for help they didn't even knwo the color of the wires that came wtih my PNP system.

for those of you w/ zkw's or those of you who know how they are set up, I have a silver wire (DDE's), white, yellow, and brown wires. now where do they go on the headlight unit? please help me.

**jrhaile** · 04-28-2005, 10:09 PM

Hey man call me.. I can walk you through it. No one else call me! :P

off the top of my head though, if you're looking directly at the back of the light it's BROWN on the bottom, white on the top, yellow on the left and grey on the right.
Could be yellow on right and grey on left too I always forget.

**komodo** · 04-28-2005, 10:28 PM

I really need to take a pic of my setup.

Some mod call me tomorrow around 4 and remind me. Okay? haha, I'll make a mini-diy on it or something.

**Jon@MPerformance** · 04-28-2005, 10:47 PM

Try THIS LINK

**Spieluhr** · 04-29-2005, 12:02 AM

i figured it out, but thanks for the help guys. for future reference it is brown (ground) on top, city light at 3 o'clock (grey), low beam at 6 o'clock (yellow), and high beam at 9 o'clock (white).

btw, expect pics and a review in the next couple of days.

**BaLAnCe17** · 04-29-2005, 03:52 PM

lol i had the same problem but i didnt have the dde's. sounds like you have everything figured out. umnitza has great service but horrible install instructions lol. i was searching the internet for a while for install ?'s....the only downside about that company. later

~dave

**delmarco** · 04-30-2005, 02:26 PM

Yeah...ZKWs are something you just gotta adapt to...
don't forget to splice your DDEs and DRLS to your PLs!

And most importantly if you have a HID ballast.....disconnect your batteries before anything else.

**BaLAnCe17** · 04-30-2005, 11:02 PM

lol del do u really think he knows what drls are? lol and i dont even know what PLs are. he didnt get HIDs. if you have the plug and play, they plug right into the back, and w/ the ddes you have to splice one of the wires in ure turn indicator. later

**delmarco** · 05-01-2005, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BaLAnCe17

lol del do u really think he knows what drls are? lol and i dont even know what PLs are. he didnt get HIDs. if you have the plug and play, they plug right into the back, and w/ the ddes you have to splice one of the wires in ure turn indicator. later

ha ha ha....

PLs = Parking Lights= three wires, brown is always ground, color 1 is turn signal wire (this wire is factory spliced with fender bulbs-so you can look for this splice to find out which wire is which) , color 2 is "parking light on" wire, this wire is important to you for getting your DRLs or DDEs to work well.

DRLs= daytime running lights usually the white 3 oclock wire. I have these instead of DDEs. they look just as cool and are less PITA (pain in the ass) than DDEs-especially in colder weather which tends to fcuk up one of the rings.

DDEs = fancy upscale angel eyes work similar to DDEs for function or just simply for style...not sure about wire colors or locations for this but they splice the same way DRLs do into the PLs

**BaLAnCe17** · 05-01-2005, 07:41 PM

hey delmarco, i have that DRL wire and i know which one to splice it to, but is that all i need to do and it will turn on when my fogs are on? its just that little blub in my high beams right!?