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mlightfoot

Member Since: 10 Jan 2009
Location: Cheshire
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2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

Wiring a DRL bumper??

Hi all,

I've gone all chavvy with my new 90XS and bought a Alive Tuning DRL Bumper. Now the instructions for wiring that I've been given are "It's a pretty simple three wire arrangement though, and one of those is an earth. Run a length of twin core cable up to the steering cowl, and wire in the permanent live and dip beam feeds off the light switch. The control box monitors battery voltage, and so will enable the DRL's as soon as the alternator starts to make charge. Again it will kill the lamps shortly after the engine is stopped, as the voltage drops down below 13.8v"

Now that sounds simple, but has anyone else done one of these and if so what advice could they give?

Happy for any advice given

23rd Feb 2012 4:36pm

LR90XS2011

Member Since: 05 Apr 2011
Location: bickenhill
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2011 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Galway Green

I think there is a diagram and instructions on both the RING and Halfords web sites
yours Rob DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,

I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy

23rd Feb 2012 5:33pm

mlightfoot

Member Since: 10 Jan 2009
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 86

LR90XS2011 wrote:
I think there is a diagram and instructions on both the RING and Halfords web sites
yours Rob

Thanks Rob - I have a look on Ring but can't find anything, I'll look at Halfords.

23rd Feb 2012 6:23pm

Killer90
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yer are simple to do mate i run the two wires from the automatic box one on negative battery terminal and the other on positive, if you want to wire them up to the sidelights all you would have to do is scotch lock it or cut and rejoin them both together i havnt bothered with the sidelight option so mine are on all the time whilst driving

23rd Feb 2012 6:52pm

LR90XS2011

Member Since: 05 Apr 2011
Location: bickenhill
Posts: 3615

mlightfoot
there is a wiring diagram on the halfords web site type Halfords DRL wiring into google and it comes up with a few sites including a RING wiring diagram it looks just like Killer90 describes
there is also a video showing you how to do it on the RING web site sorry but I havnt worked out how to paste in web addresses yet but again I just typerd RING DLR wiring into google and moved about the RING site till I found the video
all the best Rob DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,

I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy

23rd Feb 2012 7:19pm

mlightfoot

Member Since: 10 Jan 2009
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 86

Killer90 wrote:
yer are simple to do mate i run the two wires from the automatic box one on negative battery terminal and the other on positive, if you want to wire them up to the sidelights all you would have to do is scotch lock it or cut and rejoin them both together i havnt bothered with the sidelight option so mine are on all the time whilst driving

Thank you. So the box that comes with it will handle being directly wired to the battery?

23rd Feb 2012 9:24pm

Killer90
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Location: Hertfordshire
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yep thats the one mate will all be fine they are very easy to do

if your kandy has added alarms etc they may take a little longer to turn off once the engine is off

mine blink a couple of times

24th Feb 2012 9:38am

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