Wiring... Salvage with a headlight mess.!

Mark Shipley · May 25, 2020

Blackhawk_09 said:
2007 gmc Yukon

Front end electrical is a mess. To say the least. Anyhow. I had it in the shop last week for suspension and brakes etc. They told me they could wire my heads to make em work without a brand new harness. Wrong. Passenger side good. With high beams. Just put leds in. But the wire colors on each side are different. Can't get my drivers to work... Signal, side marker fine. But this is the mess im dealing with. I can solder them. Just don't know which is which. Ima beginner female on electric, so bare with me.

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Sorry about your wiring problem but I can tell you I was thinking about retrofitting my factory lights on my 2011 Suburban just like you did but it was a lot easier and cleaner to replace the whole assemblies with sharp looking assemblies that were already set up as LEDs by spider auto.com. did the same thing with the rear tail light assemblies. The nice thing was I could just unplug the old head lamp assembly and plug in the new headlamp assembly in that was it. Good luck

Doubeleive · May 25, 2020

Mark Shipley said:
Sorry about your wiring problem but I can tell you I was thinking about retrofitting my factory lights on my 2011 Suburban just like you did but it was a lot easier and cleaner to replace the whole assemblies with sharp looking assemblies that were already set up as LEDs by spider auto.com. did the same thing with the rear tail light assemblies. The nice thing was I could just unplug the old head lamp assembly and plug in the new headlamp assembly in that was it. Good luck

The problem she is having is it appears someone cut the wires previously, a ready made assembly is great if you have the money to spend and can find something that isn't complete garbage or breaks the first time you drive down the road and unfortunately that requires trial and error because nobody stocks aftermarket headlight assembly's in stores to go look at it.

Mark Shipley · May 25, 2020

Doubeleive said:
The problem she is having is it appears someone cut the wires previously, a ready made assembly is great if you have the money to spend and can find something that isn't complete garbage or breaks the first time you drive down the road and unfortunately that requires trial and error because nobody stocks aftermarket headlight assembly's in stores to go look at it.

Duly noted sir

Tonyrodz · May 25, 2020

Floep said:
In your first question re headlights, you made a typo that made it funny, There is a vast difference in: bare and bear ! Hope this makes your day.

Missy · May 26, 2020

I replaced the housing assemblies few weeks back to black instead of the stock chrome. I believe it would of been more disastrous had I bought pre assembled. Wish I could figure out how to just straight wire it somehow.

Missy · May 26, 2020

Well. I can wire it directly to the battery. Got it to turn on finally after weeks of no driver side. But think I'll need a toggle switch, otherwise it will stay on

BG1988 · May 26, 2020

Blackhawk_09 said:
I can solder them together, just can't figure out the hi and Lo ones. I believe it's ground to ground. But this harness is different then the passenger side.

mutimeter would help abit as you can see which wire has power and does not

it's like 5$ for a cheap one at harbor freight

this will let you know which is the running light and headlight hi or low wire
so you will have 4 hot wires and a ground(possibly more then 1 ground wire)

4 hot wires as follow:
2x running lights (shared?),1x turn signal, 1x low beam,1x high beam

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