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Old Aug 3, 2023 | 11:07 AM
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Default Road Glide headlight wiring

I took a chance and bought one of the Amazon knock off versions of the Advanblack ATTACK light. The only difference between them, besides a few hundred dollars, is the amazon light does not come completely wired for plug-and-play installation. Is the $60 Namz harness the only way to make everything work?

I keep seeing threads everywhere about how easy it is to wire them so the turn signals and running lights all work but no one goes into detail about how to do it. Can anyone give me some insight on how to wire them up? All I had to do on mine were wire the purple and brown wires into a harness but something involved with that prevents running lights from working.

edit: this is on a 2017 Road Glide Special
 

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For anyone else who finds the same useless information I have through searching, I ended up just unplugging the purple and brown wires that come from the headlight and leaving them I hooked. Now the running lights all work as they should but I lost the turn signal function on the headlight itself. Other turn signals work properly.
 
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