1st Gen Retrofit Walkthrough: Morimoto Mini H1

This damn thing took an hour and a half to get together, even realized im missing a few minor steps,
ill add them when i get back to my comp

 

thanks for write up

getting projectors from me would be

$90 projector (http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/buy-sell-trade/193216-fs-morimoto-mini-h1-bi-xenon-projectors.html)
$30 hid kit ddm
$15 hi/lo harness from ebay

$135, thats the cheapest possible retro

 

Added a couple notes to the walkthrough

 

Did you use the worring for the bulbs form the kit whe. I installed the the bids there Solomonic stays open in high beam and won't switch and if I in plug the selinoud it goes to lows but won't switch? Did you have any issues

 

I had no problems...
Assuming you're talking about wiring

your shield stays open?

 

That was really hard to read. But I think it says your high beams are on all the time. I had that problem and had to swap the orange/blue wires on the input harness. There is a TRS PDF that says it might be blue/black that have to be switched in some cases, but mine was orange/blue.

 

Yeah my high beans stay on I switchede the wires like the PDF said but still high beams always on if I un plug the shield or solenoid what ever you want to call it the it's lowbeams always on

 

That was my problem with the harness as it came. And same when I swapped blue/black as the PDF said. I screwed around with it and a test light for a bit and found swapping orange/blue made everything work. Be sure you are swapping the wires on the 3 wire input that plugs into the drivers side oem harness.

 

Okay I'll try that I think I only swaped the one side when I did it

 

Alright, this is how mine had to be set up to work correctly.

Input harness plug:

Real Life:


And the other end. Orange/black to ballast, blue/black to solenoid:

 

oooh! Thanks! Now adding another DIY mod to the list... ugh!

 

dude snowman you are the freaking man just ran out to my truck on my break swapped it like your pictures show and it worked perfectly they work perfect now i repeat you are the man

 

Haha thanks. I messed around with it for a while when I installed mine. Took longer to figure that out than the whole projector install. Haha
Hopefully others will read this if they have the same problem

 

I'll link it in the main post. Thanks!

 

wait, which harness was used?

 

Tacomas are h4

 

bump cause I've gotten questions about this one

 

ever find out what the small washer is for? im gonna do mine tommorow or tonight

 

Different headlight housings need different sized washers. The kit comes with everything needed for any application (within the H4 range, if you choose H4)
Our Tacomas dont need the smaller washer, just the big one.

 

k, gotcha