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copied from my thread on another forum
Although I did it when I had the bumper off you don’t have to if you follow this. I am not saying this is the correct way but it works. Follow at your own risk.
I have included links to Halfords just to give you an idea of items used.
The DRL’s used are from Halfords but seem to be some of the most popular on eBay just more expensive at £24.99. They also do a slightly larger version at £34.99 which use the same mounting bracket so take your pick or buy others.
You will also need:
5-6 m of wire if your lights didn’t come with any.
Some connectors assorted and fuse holder:
Down to work:
Remove the lights and thread some stiff cable or wire along the metal bumper between them:
Attach the DRL bracket to the underside of the air intake with the screws provided.
Pass the short wires from the DLR’s up to the light housing.
On the right side, as viewed from the front, tape the loose ends of your red and black wire to the stiff cable you put in and pull through to the other side. Leave about 12 inches spare and cut. Attach 2 red bullet connectors to the loose wires and attach to the DRL’s following the correct colour code which on these lights are plain black for earth and white stripe for red or positive
Leave enough slack to be able to remove the DRL’s in case you have to.
Do the same connections on the other side.
On the left of the car you should now have 2 red and 2 black loose wires. Strip these and twist the blacks and reds together and attach 1 blue male bullet to each. The females of these bullets will be attached later after the wires are connected to earth and 12v respectively.
Pass a red and black wire up the side of the light fixing and thread through the existing grommet used by the existing lighting wires
Crimp a ring connector to the black wire and attach to the earth bolt just the other side of the grommet. (Not sure if the one in the pack will fit, if not cut it to expand)
Continue with the red wire and pass through next grommet after removing the plastic cover next to the battery one. This is hard and you will have to make a new hole.
Just below the wiper arm is a black plastic cover, remove a couple of its screws (you may have to move the wipers to vertical and switch off). Drill a small hole the size of the wire as shown and thread the wire through. When you replace the screws the cover tightens over a seal and keeps it watertight)
Inside the car remove fuse box cover and pull though the red wire and attach to one end of your fuse holder.
You now need to attach this to a 12v that is only live when the ignition is on. Not having heated seats I had a spare position 6 across on the top row.
Attach a small male spade connector to the other end of the fuse holder.
Attach the female bullets under the light described above. Tidy up all wiring, tape to any existing wires or cables to prevent rubbing etc.
Feed the end through the top of the fuse box and plug in:
If you don’t have a spare fuse position (check as although I don’t have heated seats I still had a fuse in the position even though there was nothing on the other end of it). Then your best bet is going to get hold of a ‘fuse tap’. Google it there are different types and some will do away with the need for a separate fuse holder like this:
A lot of writing I know but I don’t see this job taking more than an hour or so to complete
Hope this helps
Pacemaker1000
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