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Greetings, everyone!!

This DIY will show you how to install the SFR 7,000-K white LED angel eyes (AE's) to a '07-'08 FL2 Tiburon. The car in the following DIY is NOT my car--it is my girlfriend's 2007 Tiburon GT V6. After seeing the SFR angel eyes on my '04 Tiburon, she just had to have it for her car as well. :3_chubby:

We completed the installation yesterday (3/27/08 Fri) and it took a LONG time since the positive and negative city light wires weren't clearly differentiated by different colors. Instead, both the positive and negative city light wires were gray in color. After some trial and error, however, we figured it out and now the AE's are lighting up.

Well, onto the DIY and pictures!! :3_pimatyo :3_winkthu

**Parts Used for this DIY**:
[1] 10-mm wrench (to disconnect the negative battery terminal wire)
[2] 10-mm socket and ratchet to remove the headlight bolts
[3] Screwdriver
[4] A strong glue. I used the Locktite Stik-n-Seal Ultra adhesive that has a shear resistance strength of ~750 psi. I bought the glue from a local Home Depot.
[5] 20-gauge stranded wire (red)
[6] 20-gauge stranded wire (black)
[7] Solder
[8] Soldering iron
[9] Soldering iron tip cleaner (optional)
[10] Heat-shrink wire wrap
[11] 22 to 18-gauge inline splicers
[12] Black silicone


**DIY Steps**

[1] First thing you want to do is check to see if your SFR angel eyes work before you install them to your headlights. Here is what the angel eyes look like.
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To test whether or not the angel eyes are working, I connected the blue positive wire from the angel eye to the positive terminal of a 9V battery and connected the black negative wire from the angel eye to the negative terminal of a 9V battery.

Here is a picture of me testing out the low-beam AE:
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Testing out the high-beam AE:
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[2] Now that I know the AE's work, it's time to disconnect the negative battery terminal from your car.
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[3] Take off the plastic piece located between the headlights then take off the headlights after pulling out their power connectors and unscrewing the bolts.
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[4] With the headlights out of the car, take out all the headlight bulbs--H7 high-beam, H11 low-beam, turn-signal bulb, and the 194 city light bulb.
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[5] Now, it is time to put each headlight into the oven!! :3_chubby: Before placing the headlight into the oven, remove two screws from behind the headlight unit. One of the screws is readily visible and is located near the tip of the headlight. The other screw, however, is partially hidden inside a recessed area. If you do not take out these two screws before you try to pull the headlight apart into two, you'll either not be able to open up your headlights or you'll crack the black bezel. Trust me, I found this out the hard way~~lol, pre-heat your oven at 200 degrees Farenheit for ~10 minutes. Also, place some aluminum foil on top of the oven rack so the headlights won't melt on it. Once the oven prep work is complete, place one headlight into the oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees F.
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Re: ==Install SFR Angel Eyes on '07-08 FL/2 Tiburon==

[6] After 10 minutes, take out the headlight then begin to pull it apart into two pieces. Along the top and bottom edges of the headlight, you'll see several tabs. Your goal is un-clip all the tabs and pull apart the headlight. To help expedite the process, I recommend wedging in a long flat-tip screwdriver into the headlight connection line and pulling up on the screwdriver handle to separate the two parts. It will also help if you have a helper who can stand by to cut the sticky silicone goo with a pair of scissors.

Here is what the headlight looks like once it's been pulled apart into two pieces.
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[7] Now it's time to glue on the angel eyes. Pick up the first half of the headlight and take off the clear lens and the black bezel. Then take off the high-beam and low-beam plastic caps and glue on the appropriate angel eyes.

This picture shows the high-beam AE glued on to the high-beam plastic cap.
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This picture shows the low-beam AE glued on to the low-beam plastic cap. Note: The low-beam AE wasn't large enough in diameter to sit flush to the outer border of the low-beam plastic cap. So in order to install the low-beam AE, I pushed it into the headlight cap until it fit there snug and tight.
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[8] Once the AE's have fully dried (I waited for 2 hours), put the high-beam and low-beam headlight caps with the AE's glued on to them back onto the black bezel. Also put back the orange reflector plastic piece and the clear headlight lens to reassemble the first half of the headlight.

[9] Now, it's time to do the wiring. Here is what you do:
a. Take your loom of red 20-gauge stranded wire and cut out a length of 12". Strip one end of the wire using a wire stripper (I stripped off around 1" in length). Leave the other end alone as it will later go inside the inline splicer.

b. Strip about 1/2" length of wire from the high-beam and low-beam positive wires (they were blue for me).

c. Thread together the positive AE wires onto the stripped end of the red 12" 20-gauge wire. Just twist the wires together firmly.

d. Since just twisting the wires together won't be secure enough, use the soldering iron and some solder to make the connection permanent. I used some silver-containing solder and a 40-watt soldering iron. If you've never done soldering before, here is a video tutorial I found very helpful on YouTube.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLfXXRfRIzY[/media]

e. Place some heat-shrink wrap around the connection points you just made then shrink the heat-shrink wrap by applying some heat to it. I used the low-flame setting on my cigarette lighter to shrink the heat-shrink wrap.

f. Do the same for the negative AE's.

[10] Now it's time to splice the 12" wire to your headlight's positive and negative city light wires so that your AE's can turn on at the same time as your city lights. See the pictures below to see how I spliced the AE wires to the positive and negative city light wires.
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[11] The above pictures from Step 10 were for the passenger's-side headlight. Repeat the same steps for the driver's-side headlight.

[12] With the wiring job complete, it's time to put back together your headlight. Before bringing together the front and back halves of the headlights together, apply some black silicone to the indented space along the border of the back headlight piece.
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[13] Squeeze together the front and back halves of the headlight as tightly as you can using your hands then place the headlight into the oven for 5 minutes at 200 degrees F. Then take out the headlight from the oven and squeeze the headlight together again until all the tabs are clicked in to their original states.

[14] Now it is the moment of truth!! Install your headlights back into your car, reconnect the headlight power connectors, reconnect your negative battery terminal wire, and turn on your headlights!! If the wiring was done correctly, you'll get a result like this!
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Congratulations!! Now you've got beautiful Angel Eyes in your '07-08 FL2 Tiburon!!

Needless to say, my girlfriend is very happy and thrilled with her newest mod.

I'll post some daytime pictures later on when we have both of cars together for a dual Tibby shot with angel eyes! =)
 
#3 · (Edited by Moderator)
Re: ==Install SFR Angel Eyes on '07-08 FL/2 Tiburon==

Picture of my car and my girl's car with the same SFR 7,000-K white LED angel eyes.
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I was too lazy to scan this diagram I drew up so I instead took a picture of it with my camera. It shows how the wiring is set up for my '04 GK Tiburon. The concept is still the same for the '07-08 FL2 Tiburons--just the locations where you splice into the city light wires are different (high-beam light bulb compartment for the GK and inside the headlight for the FL2).
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AFpilot22 said:
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!! This is EXACTLY what I needed....I would have paid money for this information......... you are god
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LOL, NewTiburon says I'm a god now. You're very welcome! I'm glad my DIY is useful for you! :3_winkthu

AFpilot22 said:
Where did you buy your led's and for how much? i have 08 Tib
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These LED angel eyes were bought from SFR, Seoulfulracing, for $100.00 flat with shipping. The link to the product is here:

http://www.kdmstuff.com/shop/step1.php?number=2468

AFpilot22 said:
lol ALSO!, what where the dimensions of the led's you bought?
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The outer diameter of the low-beam AE's are 80-mm and the outer-diameter of the high-beam AE's are 100-mm.
 
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AFpilot22 said:
I saw that your 80mm LEDs were a little too small, so do you think it would be better to get earlier year of the sets which are 100mm and 90mm?
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Woot! Late reply, but yea, maybe you can ask SFR for the 90-mm ones.

It's been a couple months now and the AE's have not moved a bit! That glue is super resilient! :3_winkthu
 
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Re: DIY: Install SFR Angel Eyes on '07-08 FL/2 Tiburon

One question... I live in PA so the seasons here are pretty crazy sometimes. I'm worried about the lights not being sealed as good after taking them apart like that to put the angel eyes in... how do you make sure they are going to be sealed really good after?
 
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kevinjmay said:
One question... I live in PA so the seasons here are pretty crazy sometimes. I'm worried about the lights not being sealed as good after taking them apart like that to put the angel eyes in... how do you make sure they are going to be sealed really good after?
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Before putting the headlights back together, I squired a liberal amount of black silicone around the headlight grooves where the two pieces come together. After squeezing together the headlights as much as I can, I then put them inside the oven for 3-4 minutes, take them off out, and squeeze together some more. I haven't had any condensation problems.
 
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Well I finally did put in my angel eyes, and I love them. I would like to add tho the experience I had doing it. Your guide was awesome, and most of the it went smoothly. Here is some things that I'd like to add for people planning on doing this:

1. The glue they use is a b*tch! I think I spent most of the time trying to pry apart those 2 pieces then any other part. After I took it out of the oven, I first did the tabs and then worked from the outter tip down. I suggest having 2 people and working on both sides together.

2. I had different color wires, on both the angel eyes and inside the headlight. I had black and grey for angel eyes, but I just replaced where ever you said blue with grey (no prob). Inside the headlight I had 2 black wires, there wasn't one with a strip or anything. I checked for which one was negative by plugging it back into the car and using a reader. I found out that if you look at the plug and it has the clips on the one side, that would be the negative wire. Positive being the side without.

3. Putting the 2 pieces of the headlight back together was a bit tricky, but I just pushed it together as much as I could, heated it up a bit, and then worked the tabs back together. Then used black silicon around the cracks on the outside instead.

All in all... was a fun project to do, and it was worth it. Is it something that I would want to do again because I'm bored? Nope. This took me a good couple hours =/ So plan accordingly.
 
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I have little confusion about the actual wiring and connecting. So once you have the AE on the headlight you have to connect the high beam AE and the low Beam AE together, positive to positive and negative to negative, by twisting them together? then take the twisted wires and splice them accordingly to city lights positive to positive, negative to negative? I may be over thinking it but i just wanna be clear so i dont mess anything up and take too long doing it all. thanks for the help I just got these from Paul by the way if that would have anything to do with anything lol
 
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jbizzleb said:
I have little confusion about the actual wiring and connecting. So once you have the AE on the headlight you have to connect the high beam AE and the low Beam AE together, positive to positive and negative to negative, by twisting them together? then take the twisted wires and splice them accordingly to city lights positive to positive, negative to negative? I may be over thinking it but i just wanna be clear so i dont mess anything up and take too long doing it all. thanks for the help I just got these from Paul by the way if that would have anything to do with anything lol
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What I did was to solder on the positive wire from the low-beam AE to the positive 12" wire then solder on the positive wire from high-beam AE to the positive 12" wire, just in a different spot close to the first solder point.

If you want to connect together the positive wires from the low- and high-beam AEs first by twisting them together, that's okay too. I preferred to use solder because the connection is more solid that way.
 
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i was readying and it says to wire this to your day light driving lights... i might be wrong but if you do that wont it be on all the time until you turn your lights on?..... Could i just wire it to the low beam harness so they turn on the say way my low beams do?
 
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iTooch said:
i was readying and it says to wire this to your day light driving lights... i might be wrong but if you do that wont it be on all the time until you turn your lights on?..... Could i just wire it to the low beam harness so they turn on the say way my low beams do?
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If you wire the AEs to the daytime, or city lights, then it will only turn on the city lights + AEs and NOT your low- or high-beam lights.

So the AEs turn on when you click forward the light lever once. If you click it forward twice, then you'll have city lights + AEs + low-beam lights.

I wired mine to the city lights b/c sometimes I just want the AEs on WITHOUT the low-beam headlights on at the same time.
 
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okay... see i was told by a friend that my citylights turn off when i turn on my headlights.... but ill just try that instead.... and are the angel eyes brighter then the regular headlights just curious?
 
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Thanks so much for the guide, it was a great help! I thought when I bought the AEs from SFR that I would get an installation kit and instructions, but no.

I got one side done last night and am trying to get the motivation to finish the other side today. I didn't realize what a pain it was to get those two headlight sections apart. Took me about two hours to get one apart. Which brings me to my advice. Work quickly! Once you take the headlight out of the oven, you only have a few minutes until the black silicone turns back into cement again. I had to put it back in the oven three times before I got it apart.

I might have to rethink wiring them to the daytime lights. I got the red AE's and they're on whenever the lights are on. I'm worried local law enforcement may not think that it's as cool as I do. I guess I'll figure out a way to wire them to a switch somehow. Suggestions, anyone?
 
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Sushi Aniyuma said:
Thanks so much for the guide, it was a great help! I thought when I bought the AEs from SFR that I would get an installation kit and instructions, but no.
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I'm glad my DIY is useful. Enjoy your cool-looking and bright angel eyes!
 
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You could just wire them to an an entirely different ciruit. Or wire them To the Daytime Running Lights or City lights but throw a switch line in between the Positive AE wire. THat would allow the City lights to turn on freely with the toggle and you to manually turn the Red AE's on and off aslong as you City lighs ( at minimum) are on. I'm getting the Red AE's too and they are a tad...illegal. So we both need them to be on a switch. Once you figure out the flow of the current, you'll get it.
 
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This is great. I'm about to order some AEs but I'm gonna get double ring ones.. outer ring blue inner ring red. And I want them hooked up to switches. I'm glad I found this its gonna help a lot. I think my only problem now is gonna be figure out how to get wires for a switch up to my dash, but I'm sure a little more digging will provide that info. Also, i ve also got a 08. I thought the city light reflector wasn't removeable.. but I see in your pictures you removed it. Does anyone know where I can buy just that piece clear or white? I was going to buy whole new headlamps just to have that white just because I was under the impression they weren't removeable
 
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Ya know, i believe they are removable. You could just paint them Black and re-insert them. Or get a Tint cover or Bezel cover for JUST the reflector. They have them on import shark. They are metal looking covers just for the Side reflectors. Importshark.com isnt displaying the picture so if anyone can get a picture of it, that'd be cool. I ahte the yellow sidemarker personally, but im ordering New headlight pods and keeping those nice and clean then putting my Halos and all other tint mods to the Old headlights. So i have 2 pairs to swap out.
 
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Tuscanirider said:
Great DIY

and I hate you, they look damn good.... I am just not gaving gutt to put them in oven :(
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lol, thanks, Hassan! Trust me, it will be OKAY to put your headlights inside the oven. I've done it like 3-4 times already just on my headlights and I've also done it for a friend and for my girlfriend. You won't regret it!!

Here is another teaser~~
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My son and I did the AE install this weekend and it turned out wonderfully. He really likes them and has been getting a lot of compliments. It took us a good part of the day to do them both, but it was worth it and I expected as much. It's cold and dry this time of year in Kansas City, so I guess time will tell if I sealed the lenses up well enough to prevent any fogging. I'll take it up to the car wash when it warms up a bit to see if I have any problems. That is my biggest worry. I did use a liberal amount of silicone and was able to snap all of the clip locations back together fully. Another concern I had was the loose wiring I had to leave inside the light bezel and the back of the module. I tried to stuff the wiring in as best I could, but there is still some loose wiring floating around. How hot do the light reflectors get? Do you think there could be a problem if some of the wiring is up against them? Melting?

Here are some pics of the completed job.

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kc300c said:
My son and I did the AE install this weekend and it turned out wonderfully. He really likes them and has been getting a lot of compliments. It took us a good part of the day to do them both, but it was worth it and I expected as much. It's cold and dry this time of year in Kansas City, so I guess time will tell if I sealed the lenses up well enough to prevent any fogging. I'll take it up to the car wash when it warms up a bit to see if I have any problems. That is my biggest worry. I did use a liberal amount of silicone and was able to snap all of the clip locations back together fully. Another concern I had was the loose wiring I had to leave inside the light bezel and the back of the module. I tried to stuff the wiring in as best I could, but there is still some loose wiring floating around. How hot do the light reflectors get? Do you think there could be a problem if some of the wiring is up against them? Melting?

Here are some pics of the completed job.

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The AE's look great!! Congratulations!!

When I did the wiring, I taped them down with some black electrical tape to prevent touching the light reflector.
 
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As you know from my previous post, I finished my angel eyes install. However, there was a problem. A few days after I installed them, one of the lenses fogged up....crap! The car had never been out of the garage and I have water in it??? I took it out, pulled off the twist on bulb covers and ran a fan into it hoping to clear , what I thought was, water vapor. After a couple of hours, the fog was still there. I stuck it back in the oven and pulled it apart. The lens wasn't wet. The vapor from the silicone sealant had etched the plastic lens! I looked at the tubes of silicone I used and sure enough, the tubes were different types. One was a silicone meant for windshields (this is the one I used on the still good headlight), the other tube was a silicone to seal gaskets on engine blocks. Both tubes looked very similar , but the tubes had different numbers. They were both hanging on the same peg at the auto parts store. I just didn't pay attention.

Now what was I going to do? I'm thinking now I have to buy a whole new headlight assembly, which new is over $300.00 and used is around $200, $#&T. After mulling it over, I thought why not try one of those headlight restoration kits. After two hours of peeling away all of the bad silicone from the edges of both sides of the headlight assembly (I didn't want it to fog up the lens again by leaving it). I tried the 3M restoration kit. A half hour later, I had a perfectly clear lens again. Hew, what a relief! I used the windshield caulk I had used on the other headlight and now I am back in business. Just waiting for it to cure and I put them back in tomorrow.

Thank you for this great thread!
 
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jesco12000 said:
can these step be followed with the 03' lights? if not, does anyone have any info as far as mounting the lights on the bezels? maybe some step by steps?
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The '03-04 AE install is almost exactly the same as the '07-08 install except easier. For the '03-04 Tibbys, the AE's get glued to the same round headlight plastic covers like the '07-08. The only difference is in the location of the splicing of the AE wires to the turn-signal wires.
 
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