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Subject: Angel Eyes Remote Feature DIY Author: lexicon740il : member since June, 2007 : 458 posts Posted on: 2007-07-10 12:09:37

I noticed there are a few of you here that have been installing the Angel Eyes...

Heres a DIY I did...Matt the owner of Umnitza didnt have any info on this when I hooked mine up so I put together a DIY....

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I decided to put together a DIY For E38 owners who have the Umnitza Predator Chromium Angel Eyes.....

There is a brown wire in the harness that umnitza supplys with the Angel eyes, this is known as a secondary trigger wire.
When this wire is hooked into the circuit that sends power to your interior lights your angel eyes will light when you lock and unlock your car, and fade in and out like your interior lights do when you hit the unlock button on your key...

It's a wonderful feature... I love being able to hit a button in a dark parking lot and see them glow.

Since there is no write-up on this anywhere I've seen and Matt from Umnitza Needed some Pics for his Web site I thought I would throw this together...

Pop your hood....We will be working here first. Behind the drivers side shock tower.


The first thing we want to do is remove the plastic piece and small metal clamp from the hood release cable...We will be entering the firewall thru the grommet around the hood release cable.



I used a panel removal tool, screwdriver and some patience to pop mine off.

Now that we have removed the plastic cover, make a small cut in the top of the grommet with a utility knife...


Next we remove the drivers side footwell covering. This is secured by 3-4 phillips head screws and two twist knobs.. It comes off very easily..


After its off and you look up twords the hood release cable you'll see this... "Its behind the E-Brake Arm in this pic.


Now that you have removed the footwell panel you can put a Coat hanger or mechanics fishing tool through your cut on the grommet in the engine bay.. like so.


Get youself 3-4 feet of wire and extend the brown remote trigger wire so its long enough to fish where we need it....Dont forget to do an nice job and solder and shrink wrap it like me.


Fish the wire neatly back to the hood release area..


Now that the trigger wire is extended and fished back to where we want it, Tape it to the end of your wire nice and tight and fish it through...

The interior side of the grommet is behind that big wiring loom....Its also where our power wire will be found...



The next step is to remove the light on the bottom your drivers door, You want to do this to identify the positive wire for the light. You will be tapping into this in the footwell area to get your power for the trigger...
BMW used different wire colors so its best to remove and check what we want to tap into...
It pops off easily with a panel removal tool or screwdriver...
My wires were Red with blue stripe "Positive" and Brown W/white stripe "Negative".


So now that we have identified the wire we need our power from we go back to the footwell and remove the tape from the large wire loom so we can find and tap into our power source...


I removed the tape and singled out "Wraped around" the wire we need to tap ^^.... Get out your handy 18-22 guage wire tap... "Radio Shack"....
And put one end around your fished wire from your DDE relay and one around your positive from your door light..

Snap it in..

And thats it...Button everything back up the way you found it, secure the clamp and collar on the hood release cable and pat yourself on the back you now have Remote controlled Angel Eyes....

I'd like to thank Philting for his input and encouragement to get this accomplished..

• Angel Eyes Remote Feature DIY (pic) - lexicon740il 2007-07-10 12:09:37 (5208 views)
  • Do only the Umnitza Angel eyes come with this secondary trigger or can it be - rg0115 2007-07-10 12:47:36 (214 views)
    • The ones I got are just + and -, but you can wire them to any 12v source - SDmike 2007-07-10 15:22:32 (146 views)
    • Re: Do only the Umnitza Angel eyes come with this secondary trigger or can it be - lexicon740il 2007-07-10 13:15:07 (149 views)
      • I wouldn't just splice the lead as you would have power going into a circuit - LJBimmers 2007-07-10 13:52:51 (130 views)
        • I other words you wouln't want your interior lights to be on - LJBimmers 2007-07-10 13:55:45 (124 views)
          • Good call I didnt think of that... (nt) - lexicon740il 2007-07-10 15:27:16 (109 views)
            • Thank you sir! Great write up by the way! (nt) - LJBimmers 2007-07-10 15:31:00 (84 views)
      • Great write-up, Lex... - j020c 2007-07-10 13:20:25 (93 views)
    • I test wired mine up using the little light under the passenger - sealbeach740 2007-07-10 14:31:11 (165 views)
    • Me likey. I have the Umnitza Predator AEs. I might have to give this is a go.;0) (nt) - beechy 2007-07-10 13:07:27 (118 views)
      • I have them too ..I am with ya Beechy. Its go time! (nt) - BlkonBlk99 2007-07-10 16:35:43 (108 views)
    • Id say yes! Love that color too. (nt) - Ed 2007-07-10 12:50:15 (118 views)
      • Re: Id say yes! Love that color too. - lexicon740il 2007-07-10 13:06:41 (82 views)