My Wife's Scooter has Arrived and the Dead Lights are Done

[rottekatz]

Finally. Will post another picture after all accessories installed.

[Dooglas]

Looking good! Ride safe, have fun.

[rottekatz]

Dead lights are bright now. They also flash amber in unison with the pod turn indicators above each one.

[printdragon]

Please post a link to how/what you used for the dead light upgrade. Thank you, Shep

[rottekatz]

I did not splice any wires while doing this and can restore to original in minutes. I wired to OEM style plugs. You have to be willing to press the 1156 bulb holder out of the reflector and press a new 1157 bulb holder into the reflector. Replaced the 1156 2 wire bulb holder with an 1157 3 wire bulb holder and made a harness that incorporates both functions.
Parts that I used wire (I tried to match the colors that PGO used, but you could use red and black effectively), wire sleeve, and the following, had a lot of extra connectors:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DTGYQ38?ps ... ct_details

https://www.amazon.com/Connectors-Termi ... 331&sr=8-4

https://www.amazon.com/Grandview-BAY15D ... NrPXRydWU=

You can see the diagram better on the post I did on the following FB site.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3986518 ... 4125143808

[printdragon]

Thank you, Nice work, you wouldn't by chance be willing to make up a couple and sell them to me? Thanks again, Shep

[rottekatz]

Thank you, Nice work, you wouldn't by chance be willing to make up a couple and sell them to me? Thanks again, Shep

Thank you.

If you order items 1 & 3 from this guy. https://sites.google.com/site/vanagonhe ... oter-stuff

Strip the ground wire out of #1 (or 3) and wire both harnesses into the 1157 bulb holder; you got it. The connectors are fairly easy to disassemble.

You would also need 2 3 pin connectors (male and female sides) and two switch back bulbs.

If you wish to switch all of the turn signals to LED you would need item 4 or an equivalent.

[jammastajew]

How much of that wiring harness already exists in the scooter? At first I thought it was an existing harness that you added connectors to but now I'm realizing you probably made it from scratch?

How is it that you have 2 orange wires going into the harness but all the rest of the plugs have like black, white, blue, and a thinner orange wire? I'm grateful for the picture but could you go more in-depth? Wire gauges? What is "pod?" Which wires are in each section of sleeve and what pin positions are they in in each connector?

[sc00ter]

I purchased the plug and play deadlight kit for my Buddy 125 from Scooter West. Easy to install.

The 50cc Buddy can be done but it's a do it yourself mod. I took power from the horn so when you hit the horn the deadlights would blink off.

[DeeDee]

If you're doing this on any Buddy, you should pull power off the yellow wire going to the flasher relay. It is switched DC. Your deadlights will be controlled by the ignition switch. Rich has his set up for amber turnsignals and white running lights both housed in the stock cowl lights. He had to drill out the sockets and add 1157 sockets. To wire them up as white deadlight only, is fairly simple. I'd switch out your stock headlight to a lower wattage AC 6,000K LED to complete the look.