b1collins5

Yeah the splices. I did strip one of the wires back but not the one you tie into from the trucks harness.

FlawedXJ

yeah. sounds like you may be back in there.


That being said, having pulled these things in an out like 5 times for various reasons and headlight bulb changes, I highly suggesting pulling the tire, 3 screws and 2 plastic tabs in the wheel well liner and going in that way.

I just changed bulbs in about 15 minutes going that way rather than pulling everything. You could definitely get to your splices and wiring easily that way.

naplesbill

Instead of removing the wheels, you can turn the wheel with the front side of the tread facing out. Turn all the way left for the drivers side and all the way right for the passenger side. This will give you plenty of room to manipulate the wheel well liner and access the back of the headlights.

b1collins5

Right on that was my next choice. I also need to rotate the passenger side bulb I think. The "step" in the LED line is a little too durastic for me. And it seems the driver side bulb is a little more blue or brighter than the passenger side.

FlawedXJ

I tried that first, but I was doing some other stuff in there (ballast relocating and what not) and it was nice to have the room to sit closer to the working space. If all i'm doing is changing a quick bulb, definitely turning the wheel is easier.

b1collins5

How did you place the ballasts? Mine are just hanging. I have antiflicker ballasts and the led ballasts. They are just hanging in there now. I would like to find a spot to zip tie them up somewhere.

FlawedXJ

Double sided 3m foam tape in that little channel between the headlight and high beam. It was a little tighter on the passenger side because of the wiper fluid bottle.

That being said, I'm about to go to HID's and there's a bunch of bigger stuff with that too. With the wheel well liner pulled, you can actually double sided tape ballasts to the inside of the fender fairly confidently.

b1collins5

That's a good idea. I'll be doing that this weekend.

RichAP

I am looking to pick up the Anzo Switchbacks soon. Base on the experience y'all have had in this thread I think I will go for Morimoto HIDs for the lows.

For those running HID lows, are you using them as DRLs or did you make changes using Forscan to avoid that?

How bad are the stock Anzo high beams? Would something like the Philips X-treme Vision H7s be a good fit here since they won't get used as often?

FlawedXJ

I used the forscan settings for the anzos. I am glad I did.

The high beams aren't terrible but they are definitely not great. It's just that if you change your lows, you get a wonderful (sarcasm) color differential between highs and lows when you kick them on. I thought I was going to be happy with just LED's in the lows, but pair their low output with the color differential when using the highs, it was almost distracting me from the road.