Polaris Sportsman. Replacing the head lights with after market LED's.
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2021
- Replacing the OME headlights with aftermarket LED's on a Polaris Sportsman 500 and similar. Pretty simple upgrade. Replacement bulbs are spendy, and some hard to find. Heres a more economical solution. This machine had the 4030058 bulbs which are $25+ per bulb. This upgrade could be done 3 x's for that price and they'll be brighter. The lights come in a few versions. 30 degree and 60 degree, I went with the 30 which is a more focal spot light at distance. The 60 degree is more of a flood light. I believe you can also get them in an Amber vs the white light I went with. Also many other brands and shapes. Pretty satisfied with them so far. If you found this of interest. Check out the channel and playlists for all the other Polaris related videos as well as other topics. And if you find them of value feel free to SUBSCRIBE. More to come. Thanks for watching.
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Always be sure to follow your manufacturers specifications and requirements. This video is for demonstration purposes only. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Great information. Thanks for taking the time and effort to post it. These videos you do are very helpful for us older sportsman’s owners. Please know they make a difference out here.
Well thank you.
I just picked up a 2000 500. Your channel is great.
Good deal. Thank you! Hope your finding the videos helpful. More to come.
I mounted a set of square led lights on my machine and fastened then to a steel plate on my front rack.
Nice. You like em? Many options. I looked around online for quite a while before deciding on these. I had history with the brand and the price was right. Im kind of surprised there isn't a set available that are the same in LED that you'd just swap out. Or Bulbs readily available. You can find bulbs but few and far between. And ... spend. Compared to the price of the lights I used. But it is what it is. Hope they work for you as you wish and last a long long time.
@@ericinalaska7648 I like them, much brighter than the factory
I bought a atv this one a few weeks back
Well there you go. Hope the videos are of help. Im pretty content with this one/machine and plan to keep it a while. But I'm sure Ill find another to work on.
They look nice on the machine.
I wonder how much better the quality is of Grote brand?.
I really couldn't say. I went with look. Brand familiarity. Ive used this brand on a motor home/toy hauler for ramp lights. Still kicking. And of course price. For the price they'd be no big loss if they let me down. They seem built pretty solid. I think my main concern would be water tightness.
Question after this upgrade this affect your taillights from working? Or is the wiring of the taillight different from the front ?
To the best of my knowledge it didn't and shouldn't have any affect on the taillight. That wiring should be isolated from the head light and its controls. Did you have an issue your trying to sort out?
Really like the look of those lights,. I have a 1998 polaris xplorer 300 4x4 and unfortunately mine has a 3 pin connector. Assuming because of mine having a high/low beam. Was wondering if they make your style of light in a 3 pin. Thank you for your time.
I believe they do. In the video I talk a little about making sure you confirm which you have 2 or 3 pin/wire. When I was exploring options I saw both. Im not sure if this particular light is available in both though. This is the link for the ones I used but it should get you where you need to be to explore more. amzn.to/33LNwXu Just to clarify I have a two way switch high/low as well. For mine its the LEDS that are my normal running lights or lows. But at this point they're really highs because of the brightness. And my top single handlebar light comes on when I change to high beam. All three are on at that point. But not much change because the LED's overpower the top one. I just have the OEM bulb in the top. For now anyway. Hope that helps.
@@ericinalaska7648 Thank you.
All u need to do is take a test light and see which wire is for ur low beam and which wire is for ur high beam then just choose which wire u want to use to hook up any aftermarket led light bar. Also they make aftermarket led bulbs that will replace ur stock bulbs. On ur lights as long as u don't have any problem with being too bright u can use either ur low beam wire or ur high beam wire. If u need to have a low beam light just buy an aftermarket led replacement bulb (not a Polaris bulb because they are too overpriced and are very dim) then if u want even more light add on a led light bar just shop around and find a better m9re brighter and more responsibly priced one unlike the ones in this video. Also do not cut ur factory plugs off just use wire taps to tap into ur wires.
I have a 2013 Polaris Sportsman 500. My wiring harness is the same as yours. I have green and brown wires. My pigtail has red and black. How should I wire my new pigtail? Red to green and black to brown or the opposite?
Mmmm. Id have to dig into that a little. But I will say it will only work one way. And as I demonstrated in the video, no harm came to the lights wiring them backwards. They just won't work. Thats one of the beauties of LED's in this application anyway.
I replaced my top light with an LED bulb and I replaced the bottom 2 lights with LEDs similar to yours. I was wondering if it's possible to wire up the switch so you can have all 3 on at same time when you put the switch all the way up. Would that be to much of an overload and if not do you know how I would do that?
Im thinking that its controlled by the switch. And if the switch does not do that already, there may be a way to somehow over ride that or rewire it but Im not electrically savvy enough to talk you through that here. I do know some switches just do that so there may be a switch option if its something you really want to pursue. That was something that got my attention at first as well. But most of the time in AK lights are a non issue until the fall for me and I really haven't noticed a functional need for all three.
@@ericinalaska7648 Ok I appreciate the info and all the videos you put out there on the Polaris sportsman! You're videos have been such a big help!
@@asheffed85 Let me know if you figure out some way to get it how you were describing. Or how it goes.
I modified my lights with my Nissan rogue high beam lights...I solder it inside the original light that the polaris brings
There you go. Many ways t do it.
I had to buy a new "master cylinder for the front brakes but there was no wiring connections for the brake light. How do I find the proper wiring for the brake lights 🤔
Easiest way Id say not knowing what model your working on. Would be to trace the wiring starting at the brake light. Of course if you haven't, check the bulb. Id have to look at mine and maybe a book. But Im away from both for a few days. Let me know if you figure it out and if not I'll dig into it a bit. First chance I get.
With the led lights do you have high and low beam
I do not. The bulbs were missing on the machine when I acquired it. But the proper replacements were single filament. On mine when I position the switch on low the LEDS or the previous original lights come/came on. In the High position the headlamp on the handlebars comes on. I believe that's the difference between some having a 3 pin connector and a 2 pin connector. Mine has the 2 pin.
Hello I have a question I have a 2000 Polaris 325 and I’m doing the same and changing out my headlights but the wire on there has brown, yellow and green and those led lights only have two wires red and black do you know what I have to do with the third wire.
I may be wrong but my understanding is that with the 3 wire set ups. You have a brights setting on your head lights. Meaning the lower two. Does yours? On mine the brights or high beam is just the center handlebar head light. The lower two only have one setting on mine. So if that's the case with yours. You'd need to get a replacement with 3 wires. If that's not the case let me know. I can dig deeper. Or if anyone else reading this has any input.
@@ericinalaska7648 do you know which would be the ground I don’t have a meter with me the three colors are yellow brown and green
@@713ROBLO My move would be with the meter as well to be sure. Id only be guessing not knowing your particular rig.
Ok thanks high my rig has a hi and low but I’m thinking I can get away with hooking up my led lights to a low I don’t think they need the high beam hook up right
@@713ROBLO Yah Id think the LED's have proven to be plenty if not too bright sometimes. You'll just need to sort out the wiring. Ground vs. common vs. neg. or neutral.
Is there a way I can contribute money to help encourage you to produce more videos?
Your Polaris content is terrific and could only be improved if you let your typed messages within the video persist about three times longer. I can’t process your in-video comments that fast especially when you’re talking as I’m trying to read.
First of all thank you for the encouraging words. Yah in a lot of my earlier videos as I would edit I would commonly feel something needed additional info and would edit the comments in. Trying to cover as much as pos. It's always a concern to not let them linger too long, to not distract too much from the talking vs long enough to read. I try to keep it down. Always room to grow of course. If you're watching one and you find it too quick, you can hit the space bar to pause. As far as money? At this point commercials run on the videos throw a few pennies at me per view. Hasn't been my primary motive but who knows. When I retire maybe it'll add up to something. I have a few videos in the works currently. Ive had a few requests for doing a coolant change, and I was planning to do one just kind of identifying parts, function, and locations. Just working out how detailed I want to be with that. I also just finished a project making a large two pc concrete slab BBQ island counter top. Unrelated but I plan to weave that in here in the near future as well once the editing is done. Lots of balls in the air currently though.Thanks again for the feedback and words of encouragement.
There are aftermarket replacement led bulbs for ur stock headlights. I just bought a pair for less than $10 for my Polaris. Also they make aftermarket led light bars that will fit ur space on ur Polaris much better and are way brighter than the ones I bought. Also u over paid for the led lights u bought. Also insteade of cutting ur factory plugs u should have just used wire tappers to tap into ur wires. Also never buy Polaris bulbs or oil filters for ur Polaris because they over price all their stuff and on the oil filters other companies like STP, Wix, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Napa, Caltric, K&N, etc make much better oil filters compared to the Polaris filters. Wix makes all the O'Reilly and Napa filters just fyi.
Just trying to help u out....
No worries thanks. Yah the bulbs available at the time were very limited and as I discussed in the video what I paid for the lights I decided on I could replace the entire thing withe the ones I used a few times if needed for cheaper than the proper bulb replacement. I was unable to find any LEDS that weren't $$$ at the time and or were currently unavailable. Im mainly just sharing an option with folks and how it looks and can be done. I would imagine over time LEDS keep getting less and less expensive. If you watch my oil change video you'll see I use a NAPA gold and talk about some of the same stuff you mentioned. With that in mind if your under warranty, as expensive as there stuff is you'll want to use it because it will void your warranty if you don't. Otherwise like you mentioned, its common to use other regularly. The wiretaps Im not 100% but I believe those are for dry and more of an "indoor" use application like say under the dash of your car or vehicle and such. At least the ones I have/had. I have used them in a pinch for convenience and speed on trailer light scenarios and such but I find and am of the mindset that there a bit problematic in wet applications and moving parts such as bouncing wires and such. Also harder to get the right size shrink wrap over a smaller wire and the bulky tapper. They probably don't need shrink wrap but. So I chose what I consider to be a more durable less potential for repairs route. Ive always used those in a situation where I didn't have the time and or the tools to do it another way. I find joining the wires vs. splicing into one to be more reassuring. Thats all.
Anyway. Thank you for the input. Always helpful for others to hear different options and points of view.
you can destroy the leds if you connect them backwards
Hey their Tim. My limited understanding of the topic and research indicates they just won't work if they're wired backwards. As demonstrated. I'm confident there are scenarios it could have a problematic outcome. Most of the issues Ive found involved unregulated voltage lacking a voltage regulator or resistor when wired properly. Im certainly always open to learning of course. And if you have info or experience you can share please do. Its always helpful for other viewers. The goal is always to have accurate info for people. Below is a statement from one of many search results indicating similar claims that got me where I am on it.
1) Polarity Matters
In electronics, polarity indicates whether a circuit component is symmetric or not. LEDs, being diodes, will only allow current to flow in one direction. And when there's no current-flow, there's no light. Luckily, this also means that you can't break an LED by plugging it in backwards. Rather, it just won't work.
46$canadian,today..one orign.bulb!from a dealer wth lol.i bought a cheap 9volt battery flashlight and tape!?!lol
Where there is a will there is a way. Hahahaha!!
Can you just replace the bulbs with led bulbs and keep the original light
Yah, That was my original pursuit, but if you google a compatible LED replacement. At least at the time of making the video and for this year make and model. There was one (compatible) option that would come up that required enlarging the hole to accommodate the bulb. I would have considered it but it was out of stock when I was exploring options. And no estimated availability. Many other options came up but as Id look at them closer they were not the same or compatible. They had a different configuration. Either the pins (2 vs 3) or the molded body and how it mounts in the bezel was wrong. Then there is the price comparison of course. For some years, makes, and models. Absolutely. They're readily available. The original bulbs, Non LED, replacements for this particular year, make, and model are more expensive then the lights I ended up using. So I threw the dice after finally picking one out. I just thought Id share for anyone interested in an option.
@@ericinalaska7648 Great info thanks so much for the quick response. I have seen the bulb that requires the hole to be drilled but will probably just buy all new lights like you did. I always like to stay with the stock equipment if possible but in this situation its unavailable if you want brighter lights that the 90s can provide.
@@Graemesbullys I agree. I would have preferred to just upgrade the bulbs. Im kind of baffled the market isn't flooded with options. If you buy aftermarket lights. Whether they're the ones I used or other. Just make sure which you need. Meaning. 2pin 2 wire or 3 pin 3 wire or? Whatever the case me be. Good luck.
@@ericinalaska7648 i have the exact atv you have and i like the lights you used so I might go with those.
Have you upgraded anything else
@@ericinalaska7648 What did you do with the light on the bars. Did you leave it up upgrade it