DIY Park Lights/City Lights/Running Lights/Brow Lights

[Bendito]

Whatever you want to call them

Ok, so take 1 (one) '01 CBR929rr, without the park lights up in the corner of the headlight (as far as I know, only the Euro models got them). The hole for these lights was just blanked off on other countries' CBRs, so it's pretty easy

Take 2 (two) LED replacement park lights, wedge type. The sockets for these come from the dealer rather than the accessories type places, but I couldn't be bothered getting them


Them's the lights


That's where they goin

Please refer to the boring one-light-only-ness of the CBR
below.


Yawnalicious

Now, we remove the bodywork behind the little light hidey-hole, I got away with only removing what you might call Ram Air covers, if this bike were to have Ram Air. But it don't. Aaaaaaanyway, you should now be looking at the blanked off light mount bit, which I conveniently forgot to photograph. Now we take 1 (one) soldering iron, and melt a hole in the back of the headlight unit, in the desired position. Melting a hole rather than drilling means I don't have any plastic shavings going down inside the light


Caution - Hot


Great success!

The hole is now the same size as the lights, so now all we need to do is glue it in, and seal it up with (on my Dad's advice) some Silastic. It ended up being messy as shit, but luckily, this next photo blurred, so it looks fiiiine


Goooooooo

Now, repeat for the other side, but don't make as much of a mess. Once this is done, we can get started on the wiring. Being LEDs, they draw very little power, so it's possible to just piggyback off the low beam headlight, which is handy, because they are right near the low beam headlight, and it will be on whenever I'd want these on too. Either get your wiring diagram out and/or check with a test pen or similar to find which wire is which, and solder in the new wire. My brother was hanging around, and thought up a crazy Y-type arrangement for the new lights, so I went with that A little more screwing around, but it also meant only splicing in one wire on each, rather than two.


Use heatshrink for bonus points

LED of course stands for Light Emitting Diode, so polarity is a big deal The bulbs were not marked at all, as I guess if they didn't work you'd turn them around. Since I'll be soldering the wires directly on, made sure I tested first. Conveniently, on both sides, I came up with "White on the Right"


Nearly there!

Once it's all soldered up, you turn the bike on, walk to the front and admire your genius...


Wait, what?

Orange?!? I re-examine ze packet and see no hint towards their amber-ness (Ok, I noticed it a little earlier on while testing, but it reads better this way ). Guess I'll live with it for now, and see if I like the orange. If I don't, it ain't a hell of a lot of work to dig out the old ones and get some newies

Thankyou for your time, I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have

[Ice]

Wash your bloody bike!!

[Tuscadero]

Isn't there a paint you can apply to the globe to change the colour/hue?

[vbroom]

awesome

[Bart]

Nice job benny Love ya work

[Bendito]

Cheers buds

Isn't there a paint you can apply to the globe to change the colour/hue?

You can tint regular globes, but I'm after plain white ones. In an LED, the colour comes from the inside though

[Bart]

I got heaps of spare ones if ya want benny. Got them from my old work and dont have a need for them anymore. White, blue, green, red. Yours if ya want them matey

[Simonpink]

Where did you get the globes from?

[Bendito]

May take you up on that Bart

Got them from AutoOne

[r0gue]

hmm wonder if my 900rr has the same parklight holes in it

*goes check*


edit: damn it doesnt

[Bunyack]

oh hai



all the cool kids are doing it!!

[Insane]

now to find the pretty mini leds to do the dash backlight ..

[Simonpink]

Which Auto One? I tried the Balcatta store and no dice.

[Bendito]

Joondalup (might be Edgewater) on Joondalup Drive

Along where Ranger and all those stores are

[Simonpink]

Cheers.

[cruelcheffy]

AutoPro in Morley has them too, in a few different colours.
Be mindful tough, I got done in the car for having blue LED park lights.
Apparently all forward facing lights have to be white.