a little help w/ hella h1 install

[rsporsche]

Guys,

i just got a set of hella 71156 H1 headlights. unfortunately, the instructions were for h4 lamps ... which i already have. so here's my question, i see that the connectors don't match our plug ... although the lamps do come w/ 2 separate wires.

here's my guess, you push the 2 wires thru the rubber cover, place the wires on the plugs ... then plug into the harness.

here's my question, there is a white wire and a brown wire. i can figure out where they go on the wiring harness ... i just don't know which one goes to the bulb and which goes to the other spade connector.

a 2nd question - what do the instructions recommend for getting the spade connectors thru the rubber cover

if you know this, please let me know ASAP
thanks

scott

 

[Arde]

White is the center on the headlight side, brown is the outside away from center. The same brown/white colors are used on the other side of the plug so it is easy to get that right.

It has been a while but I recall there was a notch on the rubber cover where you could open it cut with a screwdriver or knife to let the wire/spade through.


The plug is left hanging there, so I wrapped the contacts with electric tape just in case.

 

[rsporsche]

thanks Arde,

i found that the Hella rubber cover, that came w/ the halogen lights) had the numbers on it that matched the BMW wiring diagram. i found them when i was looking at the cover to cut it, to get the connectors thru. so it really was self explanatory once i really took everything apart + looked at it.

its all back together ... after a little detour, the P.O. had the high beam buckets reversed from side to side. so i had to take the entire light housings off and reverse the buckets, then put it all back together again. i was wondering why General Electric was upside down ... and why i couldn't adjust the up/down of the light very easily.

thanks again.
scott