GReddy 370Z Daytime Running Light (DRL) kits

Boost_lee

sweet!

Lemers

Looks interesting. Looks better than so of the other led setups I've seen

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W.O.W. 370Z

I am going to be returning mine. First they did a sort of bait and switch with the "free ground shipping" coupon. They charged me $108.00 shipped. I never got the free shipping. Then, I get them and they are not as advertised. The leds dont even reach to under the parking lamp.

Greddy didn't answer my emails about the shipping and it appears they either had deceptive advertising pictures or they sent out 350z or GTR led kits to 370z owners. The kits they are shipping out appear way to short and not enough leds on the strips.

simota1

thats messed up!! so it dont look like the pic?

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christian370z

I don't think they sent the wrong ones because the acrylic that the LEDs are seated in is perfectly curved and trimmed to the length of the Z headlight housing. But you are very right, the pictures in the advertisement show LEDs going all the way under the parking light. I am going to give them a call after labor day and see if they can give me new ones even though I already installed mine but if you have a LED parking light, it looks very nice.

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kenhdcgov

Your Greedys work for me! Very nice addition! Ok, so where did you get your VLEDs?? Let me know, thnx

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christian370z

Heck yeah! You definately won't regret it, the car looks so mean at night and the location of the GReddy LEDs look much better than the landing strip headlight mod.

Here you go, link to the exact bulbs.

http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/G...38587-1-2.html

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kenchan

What "kit"? . That's just a ebay LED strip with mounting tape.

christian370z

I ordered up my GReddy LED headlight accents when they first came out since I was never a fan of the landing strips but did not really see any real options for LED running lights due to the tight space between the bumper and the headlight lense. I should mention that I am not looking for these to be daytime running lights; these are merely a cosmetic accent for the headlights to complement my VLED parking lights however I do want them to be decently bright during dawn and dusk driving to make the car visible to others. These lights accomplished my goals and I could not be happier (well, I think they are overpriced and the free shipping shennanigan).

Fit and Finish:

The acrylic that the LEDs are seated in is perfectly curved and shaped to match the dimensions of the headlight housing which is a big plus. The spacing of the LEDs is identical in each DRL and 3M double sided tape is already in place. The problem that I encountered is that the black (ground) wire is long enough to be grounded to a bolt underneath the headlight housing but the red (positive, power source) wire is way too short to reach the green wire I used as my power connection. I simply used high quality crimp connectors to over come this and it worked well.

It is a pain to try and tap into the parking light wire (green) as I did not remove the fender lining which I could have done but chose not to for the sake of time. Everything else is straight forward.


Results:

I am very happy with the look this endowed on the front end. I was shooting for LEDs that would not over power the VLED parking lights but would still be bright enough to pair well with the LED parking lights. I was not expecting true DRL output. This is where I believe most people who are disappointed in the initial review have their issue as these are not even close to being true DRLs. If they were advertised as LED accents, it would have been a non issue.

I will update the thread once I get back to school tomorrow when I can use my DSLR to get completely accurate pictures of what the true output is but some of these are very close. However, these pictures will serve well to compare how the GReddy LED DRLs match with the VLED parking lights (much brighter than stock to begin with) for those who have a similar setup in a few lighting conditions.



Side View:



Underexposed to show even spacing and how they match the parking lights:




Under bright light:




The following are an accurate representation of their output:





For those who have stock parking lights, this is how much brighter the VLEDs are compared to the incandescent stockers:

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Lemers

Great write up. +1. How long does this take including removing and replacing the bumper?

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mattjk

christian370z, looks great! very nice write-up as well.

christian370z

I appreciate the kind words! Since I had previous experience removing the bumper, the whole install took me an hour at most. The hardest part is the wiring as the space is limited when splicing into the parking light green power wire. If I had never removed the bumper before, the whole process would have taken an hour and a half to 2 hours but it is very straight forward.

Thanks Matt, much appreciated!

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simota1

that looks great!!!! i found my b day gift that my fiance is gonna get me lol

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christian370z

Here are some daytime sun shots in high quality to show how the GReddy LEDs look and their respective light output. Just note that the VLED parking lights are very bright but look how dim they look in the sun, keep that in mind when looking at the GReddy DRLs. The shutter and apperature settings I used toned down the overall brightness but it was sunny with clouds.








Two gratuitous shots of the Z in it's parking spot at school. I even turned off the two sprinklers around it so that it would not get blasted haha.

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neveucd

Has anyone actually gotten the greddy site to do free shipping or is that just a gimmick....tells you to put a different coupon code (onlineexclusive3), but automatically selects a different one (onlineexclusive1) and I can't find a place to alter it. Blaaah

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