Please Help.. Techart DRLs installation problem
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Looking at that pic I'm not sure if the resistor and wiring would be needed, just swapping the plug.
My guess is that that box that is between the plug and light probably takes care of the shorting that snp_cayenne's wiring diagram has you do if you are making the OEM TT/GTS signals act like DRLs in a bumper swap.
That's where TA needs to be involved to confirm what their wiring at that plug is. Really they should just be sending the correct part in my opinion.
And I can feel for blacksarena as my bumper swap didn't go smoothly and the seal in one of the signals was bad and forced me to have to pay to pull the whole bumper off to swap it with a replacement. I don't care if LEDs are supposed to last forever, they don't and especially not in a prime location to get hit my high speed road debris. Having to pull the whole bumper (which has some horribly flimsy clips) to swap those lights is a horrible design in my opinion.
My guess is that that box that is between the plug and light probably takes care of the shorting that snp_cayenne's wiring diagram has you do if you are making the OEM TT/GTS signals act like DRLs in a bumper swap.
That's where TA needs to be involved to confirm what their wiring at that plug is. Really they should just be sending the correct part in my opinion.
And I can feel for blacksarena as my bumper swap didn't go smoothly and the seal in one of the signals was bad and forced me to have to pay to pull the whole bumper off to swap it with a replacement. I don't care if LEDs are supposed to last forever, they don't and especially not in a prime location to get hit my high speed road debris. Having to pull the whole bumper (which has some horribly flimsy clips) to swap those lights is a horrible design in my opinion.
Thank you for the reply, I'm glad that you could understand what I feel..With the full kits the installation supposed to be finished in few hours. However, with the parts that is missing I waited for almost a week and Techart still haven't give me an answer. Now I have to drive the car with the nonfunctional DRLs/turn signal lights.. which really bothers me.
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Thank you for the reply. so are you sure if I make a replacement of the circle#1 with the parts that you mention it will work? Since I'm not sure if I should replace it by myself or wait for TA to send me one(Although they are replying very slowly). I will start looking into it though, thank you
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Thank you for the photos. As I can see from the 2nd photo, seems like the kit that I received is missing the whole wire in the lower right corner. Wondering if it's not supposed to be included in the kit or TA just forgot it.
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With the proper information, it should just require some light soldering work.
Thank you for the reply, I'm glad that you could understand what I feel..With the full kits the installation supposed to be finished in few hours. However, with the parts that is missing I waited for almost a week and Techart still haven't give me an answer. Now I have to drive the car with the nonfunctional DRLs/turn signal lights.. which really bothers me.
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Serg124,
Thank you for the reply. so are you sure if I make a replacement of the circle#1 with the parts that you mention it will work? Since I'm not sure if I should replace it by myself or wait for TA to send me one(Although they are replying very slowly). I will start looking into it though, thank you
Thank you for the photos. As I can see from the 2nd photo, seems like the kit that I received is missing the whole wire in the lower right corner. Wondering if it's not supposed to be included in the kit or TA just forgot it.
Thank you for the reply. so are you sure if I make a replacement of the circle#1 with the parts that you mention it will work? Since I'm not sure if I should replace it by myself or wait for TA to send me one(Although they are replying very slowly). I will start looking into it though, thank you
Thank you for the photos. As I can see from the 2nd photo, seems like the kit that I received is missing the whole wire in the lower right corner. Wondering if it's not supposed to be included in the kit or TA just forgot it.
this is photo of 957 lights, not 958. but yellow plugs are there.
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Sorry for asking those stupid questions but I'm quite a newbie with those wiring/technical things.. thank you again
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lol thanks to you gnat I really do feel a little better..can't imagine driving my car with DRLs & front turning lights missing for months.
Actually I did the bumper conversion few months ago because I saw your bumper swap pictures, it really motivated me and I never regretted doing it
and now I can't wait to have this DRLs issues fixed..
Actually I did the bumper conversion few months ago because I saw your bumper swap pictures, it really motivated me and I never regretted doing it
and now I can't wait to have this DRLs issues fixed..
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The first is that you can cut off their connector and replace it with the correct one. The P/Ns for the connector and the leads with pins are in my DIY DRL thread. You'll want to get some heat shrink tubing as well to protect the solder joints.
The other option would be to leave the DRL harness intact and build an adapter to make it work. You'd still need the plug and pin wires to mate with the Cayenne and you'll also need to find the correct mating for that plug on the DRL (maybe Serg knows?). There will likely still be some soldering involved and you'll want to seal up and protect those joints.
One way or another though, you need to be standing on TA to get answers. The real answer is that they should fix the issue for you. But at a minimum you need their wiring diagram.
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I am not sure what the issue exactly is but it took my Porsche dealer a couple of hours to get the TechArt DRLs installed on my car. No issues whatsoever. All TechArt products are supplied with fitting instructions, so if one follows them correctly should be no issues at all.
before you take the Techart DRLs to the dealler for installation, did you already make the strip lights on your GTS/Turbo bumper wired up as Daytime Running lights?
wondering if there will be any extra wiring works needed or it's just a direct fit.
thank you
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Good question, cause I had the original selling Porsche dealer to get the stip lights to work as primary DRLs. Since that was a while ago I can't remember what they did to make it work but they did. I guess I have to say that after that the TechArt DRLs were a direct fit. But hey, both jobs were done by a Porsche dealer. No questions asked. Both of those dealers did get the job done.
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Good question, cause I had the original selling Porsche dealer to get the stip lights to work as primary DRLs. Since that was a while ago I can't remember what they did to make it work but they did. I guess I have to say that after that the TechArt DRLs were a direct fit. But hey, both jobs were done by a Porsche dealer. No questions asked. Both of those dealers did get the job done.
P.S. Your dealer rocks.. I live in Santa Barbara.CA and my local dealers don't even touch the aftermarket parts
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Hi guys just let you know that Techarts sent me the missing parts and the installation went smoothly(plug&play). When I see my car with the new DRLs out from the autoshop, I knew everything was worth it. Like everybody says, "you really can't go wrong with Techarts"
Although it was lame that Techart forgot to include such a important parts in their kit, which caused me extra money for re-installation, I'm still very happy with the result.
I wish to thank you all who cared, suggested and helped. I was really worried when the installation didn't go right first time, and thanks to you guys I knew what I supposed to deal with it. I really appreciate it.
Like everybody says, "you really can't go wrong with Techarts"Although it was lame that Techart forgot to include such a important parts in their kit, which caused me extra money for re-installation, I'm still very happy with the result.
I wish to thank you all who cared, suggested and helped. I was really worried when the installation didn't go right first time, and thanks to you guys I knew what I supposed to deal with it. I really appreciate it.
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Good stuff and happy end...Most folks don't even realize that TechArt uses the same shops and factories that make OEM parts for Porsche only with a TechArt design. If you are a Porsche owner you must what TechArt does. No one comes even close to those guys...
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