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Old 02-16-2019, 05:38 PM
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Currently in the garage and need help with OEM Led headlights

I’m currently installing OEM LED headlights on my 17 lariat with factory halogen lights.I bought the morimoto harness and have installed the new led headlights.Im finding that it seems the DRL’s don’t seem very bright and also when I put on the bright lights the top light goes out...They both don’t stay on?

Any help would be appreciated as I have the whole front of my truck apart right now.

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Old 02-16-2019, 05:56 PM
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Can't help with the headlights , but it seems like I saw a post in the forscan thread about someone figuring out how to increase the brightness of the drl's .
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 06:06 PM
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Ok thanks,I’m on morimotos site now and watching YouTube videos to see If I can narrow it down.
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 06:17 PM
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I just don’t understand why Morimotos’s installation instructions show five connectors and my harness only has four connectors?
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 06:21 PM
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The [ ] lights are the only one that runs as a DRL on the stock lights, though with Forscan yes, you can make them brighter, and other parts of the light can be made to be the DRL as well.
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 07:07 PM
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Ok so I understand,Because my truck doesn’t come with factory DRL’s I have to use forscan to make them come on and bright?Cause right now the only way the [ ] are coming on is if I put on the parking lights and headlights.If no parking lights the lights don’t come on at all.

Im also gonna assume that forscan is the only way to make both lights come on when using the brights?
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 07:29 PM
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How is the quality of that wire harness? It’s $400, just wondering the quality and if it’s really plug-n-play
 
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Old 02-16-2019, 07:44 PM
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How is the quality of that wire harness? It’s $400, just wondering the quality and if it’s really plug-n-play
It looks nice to me.I found a discount code through Facebook and ended up only paying $70 for the harness in the end of the entire purchase including the headlights.

Honesty I’m disappointed right now because I thought “Plug and Play” was just that.It seems now I’ve got to get into Forscan and that was what I was trying to avoid as I’m alittle afraid of it.

As I sit here I really hope Forscan will make them bright and DRL cause I’ll be real pissed if I can’t make the truck work as factory.
 
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I also had to go to Settings/Advanced/Lighting on the truck to select "Daytime Lights" as well as making the FORScan adjustment.
 
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Yes, Forscan is the answer. Because it’s an American truck, yes you may well also need to select DRL in the settings like Pncho mentions. Then you’ll want Forscan to enable Bambi mode as well, leaves driving lights on when on low and high beam. You will also have to change a few lines code to enable low and high beams to be lit up at the same time. The Forscan thread will have all the codes you need and I can pull what mine are to get them.
 
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Where did you order you Headlights from? I'm interested in doing this swap also.
 
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Originally Posted by mhoefer
Yes, Forscan is the answer. Because it’s an American truck, yes you may well also need to select DRL in the settings like Pncho mentions. Then you’ll want Forscan to enable Bambi mode as well, leaves driving lights on when on low and high beam. You will also have to change a few lines code to enable low and high beams to be lit up at the same time. The Forscan thread will have all the codes you need and I can pull what mine are to get them.
man that would be great,Any help would be much appreciated!
 
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Old 02-17-2019, 06:30 PM
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Where did you order you Headlights from? I'm interested in doing this swap also.
https://www.theretrofitsource.com/

I used the code,LEDEVERYTHING and got a big discount.You could try it,I don’t know if it will still work or not.I bought them about 2 months ago and just got around to installing them.
 
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Nico, I will have to wait to get the computer from work and hook it up.
 
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Thanks, I hope it all works out for ya. If you don't mind, post some pictures when your done. Would love to see it. Once again, thanks.
 


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