Clear Corners
I've been wanting clear corner lights for quite some time, and was going to get some that came with new headlights. Unfortunatley, I waited to
long and the combo kits were no longer available. I decided to just get the clear corners and polish my headlights. Here is how it went down.....
Stock lights, left side.
Stock lights, right side.
Right light removed from vehicle.
Right corner light removed from headlight.
Right headlight before polishing. I will be using the 3m Headlight Polishing kit.
The plan was to put LED's in the signal bulbs, but I forgot to buy some. In the mean time, I had these mirror'd
APC 3157 bulbs laying around, and used the amber 194 bulbs that came with the clear corners.
Right headlight polished and clear corner in place. I am not happy with
how the headlights came out, so they will have to be replaced.
All back together. Not sure why the right corner is so crooked, but the stock
one was the same way, so I will have to look at that at a later time.
Comparison picture: stock on the left (dry and sunny), clear and polished on the right (wet and rainy).
Looks cleaner.
December 11, 2011
I got the LED bulbs for the signals. I did some research and found that I would end up with the dreaded hyperflash.I decided that
the best fix for this would be a Tridon electronic flasher. A good write-up can be found here, on GPForums.net. Here is my install.....
Putco #233157A-360 amber LED 3157 bulbs.
Stock flasher, APC mirror'd amber 3157 bulb.
Stock flasher, Putco amber LED 3157 bulb (hyperflash).
Remove flasher from vehicle.
Tridon EP28 flasher.
Remove Tridon flasher from housing.
Remove stock flasher from housing.
Tridon on the left, stock on the right.
The Tridon flasher fits loosly in the stock housing, so it is best to assemble it in the vehicle.
Plug Tridon flasher into harness.
Attach housing to flasher.
Lock together with green lock tab and put back up into dash.
Tridon flasher, Putco amber LED 3157 bulb.
January 14, 2012
After installing the LED 3157 bulbs, I noticed that the signal indicators in the dash were dimly lit. Everything worked fine, but there was
some back-feeding going on, so I removed the LED bulbs until I could figure things out. I searched and found that nobody with a Grand
Prix had reported this problem. I figured that a diode on the signal wire at each socket would fix the problem, and here is how I did it.....
Headlight assembly removed.
Remove the wire loom.
Cut the dark blue wire and solder a diode to one end.
Trim back a little of the blue wire and solder the other end of the diode.
Apply some dielectric grease to the diode and heat up the shrink tubing.
Installed and tested on vehicle.
If you look close you can see the LED's.
Before putting everything back together, I tested the lights, and all worked fine. I had replaced the 194 bulbs with LED bulbs, but they were
too long, so I had to put the old bulbs back in. Once re-assembled, I noticed that the dash signal indicators were back on. I did some testing
and found that with the regular 194 bulbs there was some back-feeding, but with the LED 194 bulbs all was well.
I had to stop as it was getting dark. I will have to install more diode's to keep everything working properly.
February 2, 2014
Upgraded the front 194 corners with bad results.
Putco 3157 and 194 LED's in the corners; the 194's are a tad to long and hit the lens.
Low profile 194 LED's from e-Bay.
.
The Putco 3157 is yellow, where the eBay 194 is orange.
August 23, 2014
Test video.
August 27, 2016
Left clear corner light broken. Markings on the lens indicate that something
my have bumped into the lens causing the breakage.
Spare stock corner light re-installed while I repair the clear light.
Right side clear corner; repair I did a few years ago.
Spare stock corner light re-installed while I repair the left clear light.
Even these lights sit crooked.
August 29, 2016
Images to help me try and figure out why the corner lights sit crooked.....
April 25, 2017
Back to this "corner light sag" issue.....
I was thinking that the sag was really noticeable when I put the clear corners on, but after looking at my pictures, the sag was there from the start.
Stock headlight housings, brackets and corners. A little sag.
Stock headlight housings and brackets, aftermarket clear corners. Sag is more noticeable.
Aftermarket headlight housings, stock brackets and aftermarket clear corners. Sag same as clear corners.
Moving forward I will re-drill the upper mounting holes of the clear corners. I was wanting to modify the headlight housing, but there isn't enough material to re-drill properly.
April 2, 2018
The left corner had a broken mount, so I used some plastic adhesive and metal strips to fix it. I moved the mounting hole inward and forward. This resulted in less sag. The
right side is its saggy old self. Now I have a good idea of how to fix this, I will get these dialled in shortly.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or see any errors, please let me know..... cbradley@telus.net
Last updated on April 2/2018
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