It's literally LOL material how you skip from 0:13 to 0:14 not showing how you did the most important step. Either way, thanks for the effort. I'd really like to take our Macan headlights apart and paint the chrome bits inside black, but can't find anyone showing they've done it before, so I guess I'll be the first.
I cut the lens off with a saw. It took about 10 minutes. I have other videos that talk about the how to melt the glue on 99 percent of headlights. These newer German lights use a black glue that is notoriously hard to melt. You should expect to spend 2-4 hours per headlight trying to melt the glue.
Thanks for the video. Do you have any insight on how the up/don adjustment screw works, which is at the top of the light, the one used for aiming? Mine seems to be disconnected.
if you take the cap off of the back, you can see the plastic worm gear inside of the light that moves when you turn the outside gear. If it's missing/disconnected, it might not be easy to fix without disassembling the headlight.
Hello, thanks for the contribution with your videos, ask, the lights of my macan stopped moving when I turned it on, they were pointed downwards, what do you think it was?
Hi gftgrill, I was trying to replace my 2015 macan bi xenon w PDLs without hi beam assist. My 2015 had very bad UV light damage to the headlight lenses. I got some nice replacement lenses from a guy on ebay that cannibalizes crashed Porsches and sells the parts. The problem is, the new one has three plugs, but I only have the main power plug from the vehicle wiring harness, and the lights don't work ata all with just the main harness plugged into the back of the assembly. Do the other two plugs have to have a wiring harness plugged into them? Any idea why my headlight doesn't work with just the main harness plugged in? Thanks
I've never seen a Macan headlight have more than one wire harness connector. My assumption is that you are looking at a couple of connectors on the lights that are actually for the ballast/controller/computer for the headlight. I'm guessing that the light you purchased did not come complete with all of the modules. Each headlight version generally has different controllers (xenon ballast and AFS controller and LED controllers are not the same unit)
It's literally LOL material how you skip from 0:13 to 0:14 not showing how you did the most important step. Either way, thanks for the effort. I'd really like to take our Macan headlights apart and paint the chrome bits inside black, but can't find anyone showing they've done it before, so I guess I'll be the first.
I cut the lens off with a saw. It took about 10 minutes. I have other videos that talk about the how to melt the glue on 99 percent of headlights. These newer German lights use a black glue that is notoriously hard to melt. You should expect to spend 2-4 hours per headlight trying to melt the glue.
Thanks for the video. Do you have any insight on how the up/don adjustment screw works, which is at the top of the light, the one used for aiming? Mine seems to be disconnected.
if you take the cap off of the back, you can see the plastic worm gear inside of the light that moves when you turn the outside gear. If it's missing/disconnected, it might not be easy to fix without disassembling the headlight.
Hello, thanks for the contribution with your videos, ask, the lights of my macan stopped moving when I turned it on, they were pointed downwards, what do you think it was?
That would most likely be the afs motor failing or the clip it hooks into broke
@@gftgrill Thanks, another question, can you manually raise or align the lights like the other cars?
@@luchalibre1986 I don't believe so. These are designed to be electronically controlled. The AFS motor does not have a manual override.
@@gftgrill when i start the car the lights want to move up but only a little
@@luchalibre1986 that sounds like a bad motor or sensor.
Subscribed and enjoying that channel👍🏻 would be cool if you light them up in the beginnings
Hi gftgrill, I was trying to replace my 2015 macan bi xenon w PDLs without hi beam assist. My 2015 had very bad UV light damage to the headlight lenses. I got some nice replacement lenses from a guy on ebay that cannibalizes crashed Porsches and sells the parts. The problem is, the new one has three plugs, but I only have the main power plug from the vehicle wiring harness, and the lights don't work ata all with just the main harness plugged into the back of the assembly. Do the other two plugs have to have a wiring harness plugged into them? Any idea why my headlight doesn't work with just the main harness plugged in? Thanks
I've never seen a Macan headlight have more than one wire harness connector. My assumption is that you are looking at a couple of connectors on the lights that are actually for the ballast/controller/computer for the headlight. I'm guessing that the light you purchased did not come complete with all of the modules. Each headlight version generally has different controllers (xenon ballast and AFS controller and LED controllers are not the same unit)
It’s more complicated than my cellphone