Dude if builders only knew that them holding so tightly onto their info and experience, instead of sharing it with the world like you’ve done here, is exactly why they’re not growing their brands and making more money. There’s enough business out there for everyone, and same goes for here on RU-vid. Abundance ftw! You did great bro. 👊
Let's get this man to 1k subscribers already so he can get paid for this. Being a content creator is not easy. He put his heart and soul into making and editing this.
I was so scared to cook my lenses or really even start this, but now I feel confident that I can do this mod successfully. Amazing work, I and the community thank you!
Pretty badass!! Getting my Q50 3.0 tomorrow and have been looking for stuff like this, thanks for taking the time out to share your experience and saving us hella time! Subscribed!
This is pretty dope I have custom headlights on my q50 without the demon eyes I always wondered how much went into it and after seeing this man that2k wasn’t that bad I don’t have any of the wires visible no funky controllers hanging around it’s super neat and oem finish all tucked up and away from eye sight
Thanks for the vid. I’m slowly installing the BlueGhozt and projectors on my Silverado and just needed confirmation to clear up some of the wiring. Great vid appreciate the info. 🙏🏾
dope thank you for the video i saw a good technique a kid used using masking tape and applying the "etch" vinyl like a actual vinyl and didnt have to remove the lense from the base. also gloves are super legit for stuff like this. im so hyped, literally about to go pick up my first q50 in a couple hours.
They look awesome. Reason you can't use one controller for the demon eyes and the halos is because the halos are individually adressable and have a controller inside of each led on the halo. They are also controlled with just 3 wires where as the demon eyes do not have any controllers on board the led so they need one main controller to control them and they use 4 wires usually unless there is a dedicated white led which will be 5 wires. It would be possible to make a controller that can do both but it would be costly and complicated
Thanks for this intel man!!!! I saw the 3 vs 5 wires difference but didn't realize the addressable LEDs had controllers on board. Another mystery solved🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Drop in a Morimoto 3" STi-r glass lens on the projector. The OEM ones are plastic. Remove the plastic OEM, cut off the 3 little alignment nubs. The new glass one does not need to be glued back on as the chrome housing will secure the lens in place very well with no glue or brackets needed. Result is a blue cut-off and improved clarity. Worth the extra $60.00 bucks for the lens. I did mine when i smoked out the Cress and amber side reflector.
Yep I did mine too when I ripped out all the lightingtrends crap and switched over to Glowe. I'm offering the lens upgrade as an add-on to the etched lens service on my site, I'm just out of stock on the lenses: squarewheelsauto.com/collections/aftermarket-lighting/products/etched-lenses?variant=43153294917840
This is Gold man, thanks a lot for all the information, 🙏 as you say no one on earth shares this type of info lol, please keep It up, great video, I just sub
Yo fam...Loving the look of the car, and loving the detailed DIY. This project I'm going to tackle soon. Hopefully it will be my last exterior mod, which I'm sure it won't be lol
You the goat b! You murdered this!! No one is topping this video even if they are getting “top” while making their video 🙌🏽 🤣🤣🤣 just sayin fam this shit winning! oh, let’s keep with the previous- you on TOP!!
Hey man after I finished my retrofit, my passenger low beam is burnt out 🤦♂️. From what I’ve researched there is no way to replace the led low beam bulb. For some reason they don’t less a replacement bulb. So I pulled the headlight back out, baked it dissembled everything inside the headlight again. Checked for any loose wires and still no low beam function, Only thing I can figure is I some how damaged the low beam bulb when I was doing my retrofit. So I just ordered a used OEM headlight off eBay for $400. Going to have to bake it and swap over the low beam led housing over to my retrofitted headlight. This simple job turned out to be very expensive. Good thing is after doing the retrofit i can take the headlight out and bake/dissemble it in less 30 mins now 😂
OMG man sorry to hear it!!! I've baked my headlights 4 times now with no issue, but admittedly have never handled the low beam LED :( Hope this time round works out for ya - mebbe after all this you can open up a retro shop and recoup that $400 😅😎
@@SquareWheelsAuto sup bro, I figured out the cause of my low beam shorting out. Turns out I broke the wire that connects the low beam to that black box at the bottom of the headlight. So I swapped it out for the new headlight that came in and I’m back in business. Everything works properly again. So now I have an extra full passenger headlight I plan to solder the wire back together and either sell or keep for parts 😂. Can prolly sell it for more than I got it for or buy a matching driver side and start doing Q50 headlight retrofits with core charges. They send me their headlights and I’ll give them the ones I’ve already completed or make theirs custom how they want them. Appreciate all your guides and responses my man. None of this would have been possible without your help! Do you have IG? So I can show you my work
Ugh! I hate that I found your channel! Now I have so many more projects for my Q50 RS. My wallet hates you! lol! Great content. Thank you for sharing & keep up the great work.
Hey man great tutorials on the headlight retrofit!! Really appreciate your time with this. I have got everything to do my headlights atm other then the lightingtrendz flow series drl kit which is supposed to be delivered this Thursday. I’m wondering what kind of glue did you use to put the projector lenses back into its housing? Also I didn’t go with a blueghost controller atm. I know all your animations look bad ass but Idk if I wanna mess with all that right now. Do you think it’s worth the extra money and time to do the blueghost as opposed to the Bluetooth controllers from lightingtrends and diode dynamics?
Thx for watching! Glad to hear you're gonna give it a shot! re: glue - I used permatex super glue (its just what we had in the kitchen drawer lol) - has held up fine so far re: blueghozt - cant go wrong either way, but honestly i wish i would have known about the blueghozt first time round. the animations are a cool bonus but the true power of it is its ability to always be on, and respond to triggers from the car (door open, turn signals, lights on, etc). Also, def consider it if you think you might expand beyond just headlights/DRLs. I didn't plan to, but I ended up adding my LED emblem, DRL turn signals, and underglow - all powered by the blueghozt - its a beast.
@@SquareWheelsAuto ok cool I’ll check out the blueghostz controller and see if it’s for me. I would like to add an led emblem at some point and I like the switchback drl turn signals on yours so maybe it’s worth buying.
He'll ya bro I'm just using a single led cut off a led strip that's ran just like a make shift level shifter would be, to acheieve one controller. Also another reason that mskes esp 32 superior. You can make segments and choose the first led to be a different color all in the app. U can literally do anything with the esp. Wish I could start making content bro I hopefully will soon. But shit looks great
So I traded headlights with someone that had the light trendz kit, and I downloaded the magic led app for it and the controller won’t pop up. The lights drew power and showed it white and then the rainbow. Do you think I have any problems on my End? Or is it a different app that may be used
Technically, yes, it'd jus take some fancy wiring. You'd have to run just data to both and figure out how each of them wants to be powered. Keep in mind demon eyes are generally just 1 pixel so it might not come out how you want (it could potentially be off most of the time while an animation is happening)
I did 4 outputs, prewired, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing or what to expect. If you order prewiring from lightingtrendz, definitely open it up and confirm everything's actually wired; they missed a connection on mine 😤🤬
@@SquareWheelsAuto do u remember which wire (color) it was? I haven’t taken off my bumper as yet so not sure exactly which wire from the fog light to tap, unless it’s one wire
Hi, can you assist me with the blueghozt installation. My headlights and my demon eyes are wired directly to my battery, and I wanted to add my headlights, demon lights to the blueghozt.
Lmaoo i wonder how many people almost burned down their house baking their headlights.🤣😭 I did a set of LS430's With dual projectors and switchback halos.. Getting the larger projectors to play with the self-leveling and then sealing it again, hoping nothing would melt inside was a pain!! Came out amazing tho.
so on the ln 1 wire for the blueghozzt controller, if im using that as a 12v switch, what do i connect the converter to?.. confusing straight to the battery?
@@SquareWheelsAuto I see. I noticed that when it’s connected to the 12v switch it keeps the brake witch activated in the app. If that’s the case will the app allow you to change shows. 🤔
@@Hharris009 yeah in the settings screen you can change LN1 from brake mode to show mode. Either way just set it to display solid white (or whatever you want your drls to run on when the cars on)
Will connecting both ring terminal to the positive and negative on the battery instead of a ground run it out faster? My 12v-5v converter came with a very short ground wire
Do you always have to go in app to turn these on and off ? Or it turns offs when you turn the car off ? Lastly does the demon eyes shows when in auto mode ?
Nope, they completely respond to inputs and switched power from the vehicle. Once I've got it configured, I rarely go into the app unless I want to set a show mode.
@@SquareWheelsAuto i have diode dynamics i have to go in app to turn mines off and on that part I really hate. Plus i came to conclusion demon eyes is only for day cause i i can’t see nothing at night
Hey broz me again, I'm on day 3 working on the headlights lol. So we FINALLY got everything wired and connected. Only concern is that the demon eyes and the lash (the lights to the right of the demon eyes) does not turn off by itself when the car is on and locked. I have to do it in the app. Is this normal? I'm just worried that one day I forget to turn it off in the app and kills the battery.
Also, your demon eyes are still drawing from the battery even after you turn them off in the app. The controller, the Bluetooth, and probably the LEDs themselves all continue doing their jobs of listening for commands. It'd take a while (days between charges, not hours) to drain the battery but still something to keep in mind
Going on 3 years on my Q, had vinyl on the lenses of my G for 6yrs before I sold it. If we’re just trying to make semitransparent patterns on our lenses, what does “better and more accurate” actually mean? 🤷🏾♂️
Lighting Trendz charges over $3k to do a set of Q50 headlights and that’s if you take out your own lights and ship them off to them. For $3500 they should send you a brand new set with their mods included. Anyone willing to pay these greedy assholes that much is simply insane. 🙄
