LED Halo Head Lamps

Great writeup, and an excellent option for RHD Delicas!
I'd say the red wire for the LED halo goes to ignition (so it acts as a nice bright DRL whenever the engine is on), the white wire goes to the lower marker light (so the halo dims to marker light brightness at night).
Thanks Grant.
That makes sense... except I don't want DRL's (I want the ability to run the engine/drive with minimal/no lights).
When I tested it, I didn't get the halo illuminated with just the white and black wires connected... it was probably too bright out for me to notice the dimming effect with both wires connected (it was fiddly, I didn't make proper connections).
 
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Yeah that’s how mine is set up - spliced the halo into the marker light. No lights at all with ignition only, bright halos with parking lights set. I also changed the marker lights to bright LED, they now have the same color temperature as the halos, looks much better than the old reddish incandescents.
 
Steven/SK66 cross-posted his install. The Canadian site is still fun (and it has the technical reference library) but they seem to be moveing away fgrom L300s into L400s, which I have little experience of.

Welcome. Your post on adding a sunroof was the most epic piece of do-it-yourself I’ve ever seen,

A legend walks among us.

(And I don’t like L400s much either).
 
Mine arrived yesterday and I spent some time figuring them out/installing and documented what I found... they come with no instructions. I bought the smoke version as shown in the OP. They're not very dark at all, but a lot less shiny/silver than the corner lights that come with them. I just kept my original corner lights because I thought they matched better. If you do replace the corner lights, there is no wiring required. The original bulb holders fit right in place (better than the replacements IMO).

BTW, make sure to get the LHD versions, not the RHD versions linked to in the OP!

First off, they are way brighter than the originals, and a lot "whiter." The headlight lenses are actually glass as advertised.... kind of surprising given the price and the trend to poly lenses these days. Here are some pics of the install after doing only the driver's side for comparison (I didn't get around to aiming them yet).

The LED ring light I connected to the lower marker light.
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Low Beams
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High Beams
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I cut the plug off of the old headlight and used it to replace the new one (solder and heat shrink). These are the color matches I found.

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I bundled all the excess wire and secured it to the mounting bracket behind the headlight.

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To connect the LED ring to the lower marker light I pulled the two spade terminals from the plug, soldered the red and black wires to them, and reinserted. I left the white wire disconnected as I couldn't figure out what it was for; maybe daylight running light switching which I don't have?
(if anyone does know what it's for please let me know!)

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Plug everything back in, reinstall the lights, and repeat on the other side. Don't forget to move the two plastic square nuts from the old headlight over to the new ones before installing (the ones that clip into the square holes and are for securing the trim).

TBH, I kind of prefer the look of the original 4 light headlights; but the dimness and poor RHD pattern was something I just didn't want to live with any longer than necessary.
LHD due to light direction?
 
I just ordered these lights on Monday afternoon and they just arrived today (Wed) from Taiwan. I didn’t even put expedited shipping. Said arrival estimated to be Nov 13-25. I’ll take it!

Time to not blind people and be able to see around right hand turns.
 
TBH, I kind of prefer the look of the original 4 light headlights; but the dimness and poor RHD pattern was something I just didn't want to live with any longer than necessary.

SK66: I noticed the same seller on eBay has the original style (dual light) for sale as well. Did you perhaps just not see them, or was there a reason you didn't choose them?

MD
 
I just bought mine a couple weeks ago. They definitely didn't have the projector headlights available. Must be a new item. Bummer as I would have bought these instead.
 
Thanks to sk66's excellent instructional posts on installing the halo headlights I got the job done today. They are awesomely bright! Now I need to figure out how to adjust them properly. Any advice in that regard is much appreciated.
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Anyone know what the plug at the end of the right side parking light wiring harness is? There wasn't one on the left side and I didn't see anything inside the front bumper that it could plug into. It's the plug in the lower-right corner of this pic...
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For customs and duties bringing into Canada, does anyone know what the last year these fit L300's? or are they still making them?

It says '99-present in the ebay description
 
I don't see what's broken...

The whole inside assembly was loose. Finally got replacements after they made me ship them back all the way to Taiwan. Over $400 shipping cost for them, seems a bit ridiculous when I just told the guy to just send me one new light.

It looks like they added a bit of potting to my version
 

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Any idea if these will work as well? The Mitsubishi Express is just a rebadged Delica, correct? This one is about $50 cheaper than the “Delica” specific unit


$318


$370
 
if you reach out to the seller with your year hes suuuuper helpful and will tell you what will work...he helped me
 
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