12v DC

[Henn28]

I bought some new KC lights for the X5 recently and had some brackets modified and welded on my oil cooler bar. The incandescent lights I had on the X5 just were not cutting it, but I like the old school, round look, rather than the light bar look.

Fortunately KC makes some larger, modular LEDs so I bought a set of three, which fit great on the front.



Unfortunately the original harness won’t work as the plugs are different and the news ones draw more power and need a relay set up. KC supplies a harness with the kit, which has everything needed, and seems super durable (waterproof plugs, connections, etc.). Unfortunately I needed to strip out my old harness and re-wire with the heavier gage new one.

I was hopeful I could grab 12v switched (or always hot) power from the passenger side “cigarette” style plug and run it to the switch for the lights, to power the relay. After running the wire and splicing it in however, I’m not getting 12v dc from it. Was this plug a feature that didn’t work maybe in all markets? Hopefully it’s just shoddy workmanship on my part and I can figure out thst my splice is bad.