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Mod Description Fit angel eye lights to the headlights of your new fortwo 451 Mod Details Premium No Difficulty Mod ID 638 Credit evilution For Link https://evilution.co.uk/mod/angel-eyes-451.htm Copy to Clipboard Gen 1 – CCFL Angel Eyes These were glass, fragile and not very bright. However, 15 years ago, that’s what was available. Thankfully LEDs caught up. Gen 2 – LED Angel Eyes This was the next style of angel eye. Individual SMD LEDs on a PCB. The newer design was better than the previous for many reasons: Simple to fit, No inverters required, Very sturdy, Won’t break during fitting, Very bright, More reliable, Not prone to UV, heat or vibration, Cheaper! Gen 3 – COB Angel Eyes These new angel eyes are brighter, thinner and have a much more even spread of light. Fitment is the same as below for the gen 2. They were better as they had a voltage regulator in-line and the small LEDs meant you couldn’t see the separate points of light so you have a more even distribution of light. 80mm Go to your secret backstreet illegal angel eye seller and purchase a pair of 80mm angel eyes in white. (or any other colour if you want to look like a prize nob). Firstly! Test them. I don’t mean plug them in for a few seconds, nod to yourself and then turn them off. Get them running for an hour. If you can use a bench power supply, Run it at 14.4 volts to be sure. It’s rare for them to be faulty or fail but the last thing you want to do is fit them all to have them fail shortly after. Fitting The LED Angel Eyes You’ll need 80mm angel eye lights to go around the indicator housing. Remove the front panels , remove the headlights and take the headlights apart . Put the ring in front of the indicator aperture and mark where the cables will go through the reflector using a permanent thin tipped marker pen. Using a rotary tool like a Dremmel and some small files, make the hole for the wires to pass through. If you plan to paint your front reflector, do it now. Apply contact adhesive to the back of the ring and to the headlight reflector where the ring will touch it, wait 10 minutes and then push the ring in place. (The following pics are 451 headlights, 450 headlight pictures will come soon). You have a red and a black wire coming from the ring, the red is the 12v positive, black is earth. I’ll leave it up to you how you connect them but the 2 main choices are coming out of the headlight and splicing into the side light wiring or connecting the black wire to an earth point, extending the red wire into the cabin and fitting a switch. They are very hard to photograph since they are so bright and give off an aura that you don’t get when viewed with the naked eye. Wipe everything down with a tack cloth to remove dust and fingerprints before reassembling. Refit to the car, wire up and enjoy. Click if info helped 147 likes 110079 views Print