DIY: 10-12 OEM HID headlight to 2013 Headlight wiring

[rfugio68]

Hello guys,
I have a 2010 gt500 with oem hid headlights, I have recently bought a complete set of 2013 headlights. I ordered a harness from project retrofits 2 weeks ago with no order or shipping confirmation and after reading another thread on that company I decided to tackle the project myself.

Thankfully my 2013 headlights came with the 13 pin connector and turn signal connector, so I just had to figure out the wiring. After some time i figured out the wiring, and will post pictures of how I wired each connector below. If you decide to use this write up to wire your 2013 headlights it is at your own risk and i am not responsible for any potential damage.

Here is what you need:
-oem 13 pin and turn signal connectors
-a way to splice the wires together.

Alright so here is the 2013 driver side 13 pin connector:

And here is the OEM 4 pin connector:

And here is how I wired them together:
-Yellow/red to yellow/red
-light purple to light purple
-yellow/purple to yellow/purple
-black/yellow to black/yellow black and brown (brown is ground for led strip and 2 blacks are for headlight)
-You will be left with a purple wire, that is the positive for the led strip. I wired it to fuse #39 under the hood. anytime the ignition or car is on your led drl's will be on if you wire it this way. (just like the 2013)

Here is the driver side turn signal:
-blue to blue
-black to black
I did not wire the purple so that way the turn signals ONLY turn on when your using your turn signals.

Here is the passenger side 13 pin to 4 pin wiring:
-blue/green to blue/green
-blue/purple to blue/purple
-yellow/purple to yellow/purple
-black/yellow to black/yellow, black, and light grey(ground for led)
-remaining purple wire to #39 fuse for led drl

Passenger side turn signal:
-black to black
-yellow to yellow

Here is a before picture with the 2010 OEM hid's

Here is an after picture with the low beams on:

Here it is with just the car on:

 

[Vartech]

2013 HID headlights using custom harness to connect to 2011-2012 nonHID


I want to thank LEXiiON, ebalderas and 5.0verkill.
Below are my findings in my quest to build a harness. So I hope this helps others make there own harnesses. all parts were purchased on eBay. except for wrap solder shrink wrap harbor freight.
Pin 1 Low beam
Pin 3 DRL Power Full
Pin 5 DRL Power Dim
Pin 8 Ballast Ground
Pin 10 Power Ballast
Pin 12 Power High beam
Pin 14 Ground
Using Motocraft WPT 1357
I wired pins 1 and 10 together for power and pin 8 for ground to connect to the morimoto harness ballast plug using a male 9006 pigtail
I wired pins 3 power DRl 9006 pigtail to connect to Diodedynamics DS1 switchback driver
Did not use pin 5 drl power dim
Connected pin 12 power high beam and pin 14 ground to male 9006 pigtail. To connect to morimoto harness high beam plug.

For the turn signal I used a 7444 pigtail and connected to a 9006 male pigtail to connect to Diodedynamics DS1 switchback driver(Output used ground and yellow for turn signal and the white alone since headlight uses common ground for DRL). I first connected 7444 to 3157 to figure which two wires made turn signal flash since you do not use the other wire(used yellow and ground input).
I connected the 3157 directly to the switchback since this will connect to old turn signal bulb. Remember if it does not work rotate plug.
I ran a power wire from fuse 39 using a fuseblade to power switchbacks which in turn powered DRL


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harness diagram

Materials needed
8 WIRE PIGTAIL MALE 9006 HB4 ONE HARNESS CERAMIC HEADLIGHT REPLACEMENT PLUG SOCKET
1 Small ACS-J Add A Circuit Piggy Back Pluggable Standard Blade Tap Fuse Holder
1 Morimoto MotoControl Bixenon: H13 9008 Harness TRS
2 Motorcraft WPT1357 Headlamp Connector
2 Diodedynamics DS1 switchback driver
2 Pre Wired Heavy Duty T20 Sockets Plugs Connectors Wiring Harness 7443 7444 992A
2 WIRE HALOGEN MINIATURE PIGTAIL MALE 3157 3457 TWO HARNESS REPLACE CABLE LAMP
Misc
Heat shrink
Split tube wire wrap 3/8
Solder

Below are my finished products

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turn signal with morimoto switchback drivers(old photo use Diodedynamics DS1 switchback driver wired )

turn signal bulb harness

pigtail harness

 

[scott_0]

nice work man!

 

[Vartech]

nice work man!

Thanks I wanted a setup that was plug and play so if I had any issues I can remove the fault part without having to take everything out. I did not want to cut into existing harness. I just have to figure on how to make bracket for grill since the old headlights had a tab that these do not.

 

[nosscort]

I sort of did the same thing except I did not cut and splice anything I just re pinned them. I will say the cars with oem hid we definitely have the better end of the stick to do this mod lol.

 

[STANG11]

Hi guys, so I've been in the same boat as a lot of people needing a wiring harness to convert a 2011 Mustang halogen headlight to 2013/14 HID headlights. After getting nowhere with projector retrofits and OTS Performance I found the owner, Todd of retro-solutions.net and he has built me a quality harness to covert my 2011 Mustang halogen headlight wiring to plug and play a 2013/14 HID headlights. The harness is very well constructed and is beefier than oem. You can contact Todd at [email protected] I am going to post a separate thread on this with photo's. I will update once I install this weekend.