I installed the capacitor harnesses today. There was a bit of a problem as I realized during the installation that VLEDS send me non-H7 connectors on both ends and I only had them remedy the female end. However, I had some H7 harnesses left over from decommissioned HID kits so the wires worked. VLEDS' modular design of the harness made it an easy fix.
I was able to put everything into the headlight itself. I grounded the capacitor's ground wire to the the only metal part I could find inside the headlight.
I test drove the car tonight and did not experience any flickering while in DRL mode. I will keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks to make sure the capacitors work properly to stabilize voltage to the LEDs in DRL mode.
Overall, I really like the LED conversion kit. As a DRL upgrade, it's simply awesome. It turns your dim yellowy DRL bulbs into bright white LEDs. Because of the 2 LEDs-per-bulb design and the way they are reflected in the headlight, the DRLs look like there are 4 LEDs total.
Overall, my experience with VLEDS has been both good and bad. They were able to make me a custom capacitor harness after I told them about the DRL flickering issue, but got the connectors all wrong. They also took weeks to get one end right and I had to hound them for it a bit. Overall, they are okay, but I would say the guys at TheRetrofitSource are much better with customer support and email correspondence.
I plan to contact VLEDS to let them know that the H7 inline capacitor harnesses as they sold it to me had the wrong connectors on
both ends so they address the issue for future customers.
Here are some photos of the inline capacitor harness installation:
Here, you can see that the harness has a bigger connector than a H7. H7 is top. Bottom is what was on the inline capacitor harness.
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The solution was to swap out the harness at the connector and install H7 blade connectors I had laying around from decommissioned HID kits. So glad I did not toss them.
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This is the inline capacitor harness. I taped up the blade connectors with electrical tape and grounded the ground wire before I stuffed everything inside of the headlight.
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I grounded the capacitor's ground here given it was the only metal place I could. It appears to have worked.
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Everything fit inside the headlight and appears to be working properly. I will post an update in a week or so in regards to whether the capacitor harnesses eliminated the flickering.