My Wife's Scooter has Arrived and the Dead Lights are Done

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My Wife's Scooter has Arrived and the Dead Lights are Done

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Finally. Will post another picture after all accessories installed.
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived

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Looking good! Ride safe, have fun.
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived

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Dead lights are bright now. They also flash amber in unison with the pod turn indicators above each one.
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived

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Please post a link to how/what you used for the dead light upgrade. Thank you, Shep
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived

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I did not splice any wires while doing this and can restore to original in minutes. I wired to OEM style plugs. You have to be willing to press the 1156 bulb holder out of the reflector and press a new 1157 bulb holder into the reflector. Replaced the 1156 2 wire bulb holder with an 1157 3 wire bulb holder and made a harness that incorporates both functions.
Parts that I used wire (I tried to match the colors that PGO used, but you could use red and black effectively), wire sleeve, and the following, had a lot of extra connectors:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DTGYQ38?ps ... ct_details

https://www.amazon.com/Connectors-Termi ... 331&sr=8-4

https://www.amazon.com/Grandview-BAY15D ... NrPXRydWU=

You can see the diagram better on the post I did on the following FB site.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3986518 ... 4125143808
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived and the Dead Lights are Done

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Thank you, Nice work, you wouldn't by chance be willing to make up a couple and sell them to me? Thanks again, Shep
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Re: My Wife's Scooter has Arrived and the Dead Lights are Done

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printdragon wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 3:49 pm Thank you, Nice work, you wouldn't by chance be willing to make up a couple and sell them to me? Thanks again, Shep
Thank you.

If you order items 1 & 3 from this guy. https://sites.google.com/site/vanagonhe ... oter-stuff

Strip the ground wire out of #1 (or 3) and wire both harnesses into the 1157 bulb holder; you got it. The connectors are fairly easy to disassemble.

You would also need 2 3 pin connectors (male and female sides) and two switch back bulbs.

If you wish to switch all of the turn signals to LED you would need item 4 or an equivalent.
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