Daytime Running Light install - United Bimmer Community

**BaLAnCe17** · 05-31-2006, 12:04 AM

Hey guys, now that im swapping my zkw's over to the m3, i want to wire up the drl lights. i wanted to back w/ the 328 but i didnt know how to do it correctly and i didnt want to mess up splicing. as the m3 sits now i cant drive it

cuz there arent any headlights in it. so i was hoping that either habbie or someone whose wired these things could help me out.

there are 3 small wires that come out of the signal. what wire (color???) is it that goes into the turn signal when the lights are turned on that the turn signal lights up (the one i would be wiring the drl's to)...i still have the 2 gray wires that came w/ the zkws that i will plug into the back of the headlight and i would splice that w/ the wire i need.

this was a horribly structured post haha. thanks for the help, get back to me asap because i need to have the car going my tomorrow night. cya

**Rooz** · 05-31-2006, 01:07 AM

If you have a test light just ground it and see what wire lights up wehn you turn the daylights on

that's what I did

You know what, I'll just take some pics for you

Gray and purple on driver side

Gray and yellow on passenger side

**BaLAnCe17** · 05-31-2006, 02:33 PM

ok, so those are the wires that i would splice to for drl's?? thanks

**Rooz** · 05-31-2006, 09:01 PM

Yeah, those are the "parking lights" I cut those off from the corners and wired them into the DDE's

**BaLAnCe17** · 05-31-2006, 11:11 PM

haha, i cant cut mine, ill have to splice them. wish me luck

im doing it right now. later

habbie · 06-01-2006, 01:56 AM

you mean city lights? drl is totally different then city lights.
drl requires a canadien spec drl light module, city lights only require you splice into your grey wire from the turn signals(grey with purple stripe on one side, grey with yellow stripe on the other)
hope that helps.

**Rooz** · 06-01-2006, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by BaLAnCe17

haha, i cant cut mine, ill have to splice them. wish me luck

im doing it right now. later

If you just splice into them then you'll have the coners on at the saem time than your DDE's will be on... is that what you want?

**BaLAnCe17** · 06-01-2006, 03:14 PM

yup

...every thing works well

ya i meant "city lights" i guess. the previous owner had the side markers spliced to the gray wire so his sidemarkers would go on too...i dont really understand why he did that unless me made a mistake...pics should be up soon

later

**newsong** · 03-03-2007, 09:34 AM

Where are those pics?

**BaLAnCe17** · 03-03-2007, 01:26 PM

hah this thread is pretty old...click on the link for the pics...
http://nwbmwclub.com/bmws/davids_m3.htm