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Upgraded the headlights on my Tata Harrier Dark Edition

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I have to say that I am grinning wildly every time when I switch on the high beams. There’s a complete transformation.

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One of the main issues I faced with Harrier is the inadequate headlights, especially during my early morning drives. This was highlighted in my initial posts and an upgrade was on the cards. I usually upgrade the headlight bulb to Osram Night breakers and install a pair of auxiliary lights on all my vehicles and initially thought about going the same way and slapping a pair of Hella 3003 or something similar on Harrier too.
While searching for options to upgrade the high beam, saw some light upgrades done by a Tata SOUL member Mr. Preethendra in a couple of Harriers and Safaris. While I was contemplating this, my brother was also looking for a headlight upgrade and he got a similar upgrade done by the Preeth on his Nexon, and after seeing the light output, I was convinced to give it a try.

After a couple of WhatsApp exchanges and calls, we set up a date and I reached the place to start the work. The work was supposed to start by 7.30 PM, but his guy got called to attend to some urgent work and was not back, so it was almost 9.00 PM when we started the work.

The upgrade kit:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

  • High Beam: Novsight LED, 6000K.
  • Foglights: AES hi-low projectors, coupled with AES GS Ballast and AES UPS Canbus 5500K HID, AES relay to enable cornering function.
  • Low Beam: Stock – decided to leave it untouched because I use low beams inside the city, and I do not want the light to be too bright inside city limits. Also, Preethendra was of the opinion that upgrading low beams is a costly affair and that the price-light return ratio is not really justifiable.

Work started by removing the front bumpers and first, the high beams were upgraded:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

Testing the high beams – LED inside one, Halogen inside the other one. (Preeth is the guy in the yellow shirt and the excited young gentleman is my son, who stayed awake till whole work was finished):

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

I was given the option of going for either Novosite or Aozoom LEDs for the high beams and we put Novosite in one headlight and Aozoom in another to compare the output and decided to go ahead with Novosite since the light output was far better than Aozoom. Also, visually, Novoite was much better put together and compact.

The Novsight LED which went into the car:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

The Aozoom LED which did not make the cut:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

The stock fog lights were then removed and a new clamp and projectors were installed, along with the relays to make the cornering function work. Then wires were run from projectors to the battery for power and the high beam was tapped and connected to the fog lights so that if the fog lights are on and if I switch on the high beam, the fog lights also will switch to high beams.

Projectors – a closer look:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

Ballast:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

The AES UPS Canbus HIDs:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition
auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

Final testing:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

The whole removal and upgrade took around 2.5 to 3 hours and by around 1 AM, we hit the roads to align the lights. I have to say that during the entire time, Preeth was overseeing the work with a hawk’s eye, and both the mechanic (forgot his name) and Preeth did not cut any corners or tried to finish up the work faster. After multiple tries, we aligned High, Low, and Fog lights and the results:

Only fogs:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

High beam + fogs:

auto, autos, car, cars, upgraded the headlights on my tata harrier dark edition

I have to say that I am grinning wildly every time when I switch on the high beams. Did a night drive to Rasta café, just to check out the headlights, and boy oh boy, what a transformation.

Interesting trivia: After removing the high beam bulbs, we realized that one headlight was having Philips bulb, while the other was having Osram bulb. Preeth was telling that he has observed this in many Harriers.

Anoop.

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