Hey guys/gals,

**This is a long question/post** but I need your help....

I am installing Depo ellipsouds with the preinstalled regulare white colored AE's on a 98 M3 sedan.

Anyhow, the wiring instructions are just horrible. There is not euro screw cap like the Zkw's so you ahve to slide each individual pin over each connector then slide a rubber gromet over for moisture protection.

It comes with a "plug and play," harness, but the only instructions I found on the internet was.......

Step Two: Take out the handy-dandy "PnP wiring harness" and take a look at it. It has two U.S. Spec 9005/9006 connectors and a rubber boot with copper / brass pressure connectors on it and one mysterious gray wire.

Using your hemostat's and being very carefull not to dork anything up, grab the brown wire brass pressure connector for the ground in the PnP wiring harness and slip it over the headlight housing connector pin at the 12 o'clock position.

Grab the yellow wire brass pressure connector for the low beams in the PnP wiring harness and slip it over the headlight housing connector pin at the six o'clock position.


Grab the white wire brass pressure connector for the high beams in the PnP wiring harness and slip it over the headlight housing connector pin at the nine o'clock position.

Grab the gray wire brass pressure connector for the high beams in the PnP wiring harness and slip it over the headlight housing connector pin at the three o'clock position. Strip about 3/4 of an inch of insulation off the other end of the gray wire.

Now when I do all this and turn on the headlights one with light up high or low then when high beam on nothing. Angel eyes eyes come on automatically when headlights are on and the grey wire hasn't tapped into the corner power and the relay system isn't hoked up either.

Are the instructions above correct? Would tapping into the corner lamp solve this?

Your help is GREATLY appreciated!

Tom

you have to tap the gray wire into either the blue or the blue and yellow wire that goes to your turn signal light... I'm not sure which one, I'm still trying to figure that out myself..

from what i've been hearing you connect the grey to the purple/ grey wire on the parking light.

Just forgetting about the grey wire for some reason I use the PNP harness and follow the instructions and all I get is when low beam on = passenger side ellipsoid lit up/no high beam driver side ellipsoid NOT lit up,but high beam on.

When high beam on = same thing as above? WTF??

BTW - I t-tapped into the mainly purple wire on the driver side and it solve anything. Also, without the grey wire the AE's use to turn on, now they don't.

Tom

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Here ya go....

http://www.understeer.com/ellipsoid.shtml

And make sure you click on the picture to make it full size. Notice the position of the small shapes on the outer edge of the socket. These are crucial to the placement of the wires coming from the plugNplay harness. Depo's are notorious for having the socket in other positions but if you follow where the wires go in relation to the small shapes on the socket you'll be fine and all lit up.

Ok, the directions above that you posted were indeed correct, theres one problem though, they are not universal for each and every depo headlight unfortunately.

Your situation sounds like mine, do the following and I gaurantee you it will fix the problem.

Ok, so for example if the directions says to put the brown plug at 12, the yellow at 3, the white at 6, and the grey at 9, now put the grey at 12, the white at 9, the yellow at 6, and the brown at 3. Turn on your lights and see if everything works properly. If not, move them all up one "degree" at a time in the same exact orientation until you get the right combo, then once you get the right combination, you will need to put the other headlight in the same orientation whichever it will turn out to be in your first headlight. I hope this makes sense.

Also, be very careful with the brass connectors, they break very easy, so until you get the right combo, dont press down on them too hard or anything.

If you understand what I said, and you do it right, this will definitely solve your problem, Good luck.

Ok, the directions above that you posted were indeed correct, theres one problem though, they are not universal for each and every depo headlight unfortunately.

Your situation sounds like mine, do the following and I gaurantee you it will fix the problem.

Ok, so for example if the directions says to put the brown plug at 12, the yellow at 3, the white at 6, and the grey at 9, now put the grey at 12, the white at 9, the yellow at 6, and the brown at 3. Turn on your lights and see if everything works properly. If not, move them all up one "degree" at a time in the same exact orientation until you get the right combo, then once you get the right combination, you will need to put the other headlight in the same orientation whichever it will turn out to be in your first headlight. I hope this makes sense.

Also, be very careful with the brass connectors, they break very easy, so until you get the right combo, dont press down on them too hard or anything.

If you understand what I said, and you do it right, this will definitely solve your problem, Good luck.

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I had some problems today when i was installing mine, turns out I had the ground and highbeam wires mixed up.

Just make sure that when you are testing out different places for the plugs, that Yellow is alway opposite Brown, and you should figure it out pretty quickly.