TEQ Customs LED Headlights

[LLTB]

Ordered these a while back. Actual lead time was 11 weeks. They arrived today. First impressions - they seem to be well done. It’s a DEPO housing that they modified. I got multiple projectors on mine.

I customized these which is part of the reason for the long lead time, I guess.

Not excited about the chrome trim - I’m just not a fan. I did order these blacked out, which I mistakenly assumed would include the exterior trim pieces, but that’s no big deal. Easy fix with some light sanding and satin black trim paint.

Might try and get these installed today.

Here is a pic of my current setup, also DEPOs, but with regular bulbs. The visibility is fine with these, I just decided to go big. I’ll be selling these. They’re in good shape.

 

[LLTB]

let’s go

Once I got the old ones out, I realized that the blacked out trim is probably not to everyone’s liking. So rather than paint the new chrome trim pieces black, I decided to freshen up the paint on my old trim pieces and swap them with the new ones.

That way whoever buys the old DEPO housings can have the new chrome trims.

The trim pieces are identical.

The new housings did not come with any wiring instructions that I can find — neither via email nor in the box. I’ll have to check their website.

I might be over thinking it though. Looking at the new housings, it’s clear that the plugs are meant to connect to the existing headlight wiring harness. Also each headlight housing has four additional sets of wires which I am guessing are for DRLs, halos, etc. although it’s not clear which are for which, or of if I should be connecting them to separate switches, etc.

 

[LLTB]

Their website has install guides - and this seems to be the one for the 80 Series.

 

[LLTB]

I did some testing, applying power to different wires using a 9V battery. I suggest you do this. It made it easy to figure out which wires go to what, and I was able to put labels on the wires.

Depending on the custom configuration you choose, you may or may not have halos, shrouds, or demon eyes.

It turns out that the black is just negative, the red wires are for WHITE LED, and the yellow wires are for AMBER LED. So you could use both, and get creative, maybe doing the amber as a DRL and the white as a turn signal, for example.

I’m considering how I want mine to work.

 

[LLTB]

On my 97 the DRL is in the corner housing and the turn is in the housing below the headlights. I guess on some Toyotas the DRL and turn signal may be in the same bulb and will need to be separated out. Since mine are already separate, that saves me the hassle of that step.

I want all four of my halos lit along with the DRLs as amber, and the outer halos to blink white/amber with the turn signals activated. Otherwise, no white halos.

I should be able to connect all these black wires to ground and then connect the outer halo red (white LEDs) to my turn signal power via wire tap, and the inner and outer halo and demon eyes yellow (amber LEDs) wires to the DRLs power via wire taps.

I think.

 

[LLTB]

OK, my thinking on the wiring isn’t going to work, probably.

If the outer halo gets positive power on the yellow wire tapped into the DRL positive, and negative on the black, which illuminates the amber halo — the. on the same halo the red wire is tapped into the turn signal positive wire… activating the turn signal doesn’t “override” the already illuminated amber halo.

Other words, the amber circuit doesn’t open just because the turn signal circuit is closed.

So how to interrupt the DRL signal when turn is activated… ?

 

[Inthefive555]

You can just run something like the blinker genie - Amazon link or Official link.

 

[sadovnik]

I like the retro look of the early 2000s with the halos. Reminds me of the E39 BMWs.

 

[Kabanstva]

That’s the most ricy looking headlight I’ve ever seen on an 80 series. Put those on a 2001 Accord coupe. Back then it was popular to install R34 Skyline tail lights on those cars, why not 80-series headlights?

 

[sadovnik]

That’s the most ricy looking headlight I’ve ever seen on an 80 series. Put those on a 2001 Accord coupe. Back then it was popular to install R34 Skyline tail lights on those cars, why not 80-series headlights?

 

[LLTB]

I’ve determined through bench testing that I can not do what I want with the lights.

What I want is all lit up amber, and have the outer halo blink amber/white when the turn activates.

I can connect the halos, shroud, and demon eyes to the DRL circuit using the yellow (amber) wire, which gives me the look I want when DRLs are active.

But wiring the outer halo’s red wire (white LED) to the turn signal circuit does not produce the result I was after. The turn signal doesn’t “override” the power coming from the DRL circuit — in other words, the halo is lit amber, but when the turn activates, that doesn’t change the halo to white. It does nothing and the halo stays amber.

It DOES work the other way, however. You CAN have the halos powered constantly white by the DRL circuit using the red wires, and then using the yellow wire for amber to the turn signal, it WILL blink white / amber.

I called TEQ Customs and they don’t know why it works one way and not the other.

So I have decided to abandon the idea of doing a turn signal integration at all and just light these up with the DRL’s the way that I want. That simplifies the installation quite a bit. I should be able to get these installed here shortly. I’m definitely disappointed that I wasn’t able to get the turn signal to work the way that I want.

 

[LLTB]

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I love em!

 

[ppc]

I would check your local laws. Yellow lights for anything but turn signals I'm guessing is going to get you an unfriendly autograph courtesy of somebody that is partial to blue lights. There are also restrictions on the number of lights that be luminated together and their height.

 

[LLTB]

I would check your local laws. Yellow lights for anything but turn signals I'm guessing is going to get you an unfriendly autograph courtesy of somebody that is partial to blue lights. There are also restrictions on the number of lights that be luminated together and their height.

Yeah, don't really care about that. I'm not asking my government for permission. That's my politics. They don't ask me for permission before stealing all my money and then spending it. LOL

But honesly, ppc, what is the difference between the following:

a light blinking amber - white - amber - white - amber
and a light blinking white - amber - white - amber - white

At any rate, I don't think I can get it to work, so the point is kinda moot.

I like the retro look of the early 2000s with the halos. Reminds me of the E39 BMWs.

Me too! And I loved the E39's. BMW is always starting trends, it seems.

That’s the most ricy looking headlight I’ve ever seen on an 80 series. Put those on a 2001 Accord coupe. Back then it was popular to install R34 Skyline tail lights on those cars, why not 80-series headlights?

One's man's ugly woman is another's dream, I guess. The 80 series stock headlights are just not bright enough for my old man eyes.

 

[LLTB]

You can just run something like the blinker genie - Amazon link or Official link.

Thanks - I need to look into this. Might not work tho - since the halo has two inputs wires, depending on which color you want to activate, rather than just one. I'll review this wiring diagram on the Amazon link you shared.

I gave up on getting the turn signals to blink so that I could get them installed for now and at least aim them and drive the truck while I look for a better solution.

The low beams are bright as hell. A massive improvement. And they were pretty easy to get adjusted with a phillips screwdriver and a wall.

I think my lows are aimed a tad bit too high still, as I am getting people flashing their brights at me. So I will drop them down a bit more.

The high beams are aimed super weird out of the box. They both aim to the exact CENTER of the road about 100 yards in front of the truck, overlapping each other, like a massive spotlight. Very unhelpful and silly. I managed to raise them a bit so they're shining ahead of the vehicle rather down on the road, but they're still overlapping each other. I need some left/right adjustability on the high beams to adjust them away from center and make them useful. I don't see an adjuster screw for left/right on the high beams - so I've contacted TEQ Customs to ask about it.

More on this as I get it sorted.

 

[COS80]

Yeah, don't really care about that. I'm not asking my government for permission. That's my politics. They don't ask me for permission before stealing all my money and then spending it. LOL

 

[LLTB]

Ok so there is an adjuster screw for Left / Right aiming of the high beams so I got those sorted.

The light on lows and highs looks great now.

A huge improvement for me. Overall I’m happy with them.

These pics kinda suck but here are low beams and then high beams. The camera was on auto so these aren’t timed bulb shots or anything scientific. LOL

Lows…

Highs…

 

[COS80]

Your lows are too high.

 

[baldilocks]

Position the car 25 feet from a wall with low beams on the wall. Adjust the upper cut off to 4ft off the ground. This has always worked for me.

 

[jht3]

double check the alignment. i like to pull my vehicles up to a flat wall, mark the exact center of each low and high beam on the wall w/ blue painters tape, then back up 25'. adjust so the drivers left _/ slope is 2" below the center. adjust the passenger _/- slope so its continuous w/ the drivers and slopes up past the passenger center. high beams adjust how you like but dead center is a good place to start. there are some better tutorials you can search up

so these are LED low/high beam projectors? how's the projector pattern compare to HIDs you may have on other vehicles?

regarding the switchbacks; they are designed to be white constant and interrupted to turn amber as a turn signal, then "switchback" to white. may as well just hardwire them amber as that is the look you are after. got any straight on dusk/night shots of the angel and demon eyes?

what lights are in the ARB marker locations?