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They state that they have a mobis hyundai non H grille for Azera in color Sage Green.
Dreams4u.com says that Hyundai does not make a non H Azzy grille in Sage Green as the color is for export only, and is not available in the Korean market.
Any info would be appreciated.
It sounds like you found a great shop to do your work and that they were reasonable considering how long it took to do. It does, indeed, appear that you made a good decision.
I, personally, am not big on side marker lights but we each have our "hot buttons" and mine is electronics. I have installed a state of the art tire pressure monitoring system that displays each tire pressure and temperature individually along with my Sirius radio and my Motorola bluetooth wireless car kit for my cell. The only other mod I am doing is the flashing rear center brake light for added safety and modifying the bulb to an LED for a strobing light effect...very eye catching and I travel over 35K miles a year and want to be seen clearly when stopped.
Enjoy your car my friend. Although problems are highlighted on these forums, which is a great thing from an awareness stand point, I think that 95+ % of Sonata owners are thrilled with their purchase and will buy another in the future. Me...I have my eyes on the hot Azera...what a classy car
What kind of tire pressure monitos did you use?
Awesome unit. Very high quality and easy to install. I researched and tested a total of 4 brands from SmarTire to AccuTire to PressurePro to Valet and the Route unit was, by far, the nicest and has an awesome display.
My unit has been installed now for about 3 months and I love it. With traveling over 3K miles/month, it's a great peace of mind.
Floridabob, I am interested in the Side Marker Lights from Dream4u who show it on their website. The rim of the lamp looks like it is gray but might be chrome which I would prefer. Which is it?
Neither. What you are seeing is the outer edge of the clear plastic lens where it is attached to the socket. There is no flange on the outside of the assemnly. That was my reason for purchasing these lamps. Other than the bulb socket, there are no openings in the lamp, making it water tight.
Remember that there are no wires coming from the lamp socket, as this unit was designed to plug into the OEM wire harness. You must either find a pigtail to plug into socket, which I was unable to do, or modify the socket assemply by attaching wires.
The second option is what I did. Once I determined out how to attach the wires, the wiring part went easily.
Thanks for the pictures. I have two wires coming from my new side markers, one white and one black. It appears from your pictures that I will have to go into the wiring harness just before it plugs into the rear of the light cluster pod. Could yoy possibly give me the color coding of the outer(turn signal)wires in the harness? Thanks.
CDM
White and brown are the colors to connect the side markers if you want them to be on when your lights are on, and flash when you use your directionals.
The hardest part of the entire installation was fishing the wire through the rubber gromet in the door that leads into the passenger compartment. Some pretty tricky fishing but it can be done with patience. The side markers will be a much easier installation wiring wise but, as you already know, it will involve drilling holes in your car which is not the case for the mirrors.
I, personally, like the mirrors better as they are far better at alerting drivers than side markers are but the side markers give the car a European look so it all boils down to what you want to spend and what you are looking to get out of this. If it's safety, get the mirrors. If it's European looks, get the side markers.
I was going to go the side mirror route, but I was concerned about the matching color and the total cost.
The euro lights do look good, and actually emit plenty of flashing side light to warn others.
The advantage of the mirrors is that it will turn your car closer into an 07.
The advantage of the euro lights is that nobody can figure out what kind of car you are driving, especially if you have debadged and added other toys.
www.koreanautoimports.com
I also added a shark fin antenna to the rear edge of my roof and now it looks more like a BMW than ever.
Dream says that because Sage Green is not a color sold in Korea, Hyundai Mobis does NOT make the grill.
Korean Auto Imports claims that they can get the Mobis OEM grill in Sage Green.
Who to believe?
Both claim they are getting the finished product from Hyundai Mobis.
Just got a return call from Korean Auto Imports. They have found out that they can no longer get the non H Azera grille in Sage Green. I guess that ends my grille replacement project.
I would guess that the paint shops would charge at least $200 to shoot the grille.
Is the grille the exact type as the original, weight and quality wise?
My grille arrived the same way and matched perfectly. It took me about an hour to swap grilles.
Thanks for the color codes. I just finished the installation. One problem. On the driver's side I connected my white wire to the brown wire in the wiring harness and my black wire to ground(a fender nut). Works perfectly, that is, it blinks with the pod turn signal. I hooked it up the same way on the passenger side and it doesn't blink, just stays on. Any ideas? Maybe I should have connected my white wire to the pod's white wire on the passenger side?
Thanks
CDM
Each side should be wired alike,
The two wires from the new light should be wired as follows.
One to the white harness wire and the other to the brown harness wire. I could give you the reasoning, but it really doesn't matter.
Look on pillar on drivers side front door. It will give both exterior and trim codes.
If you are having paint shop do job, may I ask what the charge is?
They didnt call it an AUTO show. My error.
http://www.channel4.com/4car/gl/gallery/gallery/937/8
http://www.koreanautoimports.com/
I corresponded with James asking if the lights would appear the same as the stock tail lights at night. He said he had no pictures showing both his light strip with the tail lights and has not seen one. I would not want the strip to look brighter or different than the stock lights.
Ouch! Two minutes late and a dollar short... :shades:
Note some of the comments below the photos...