To improve visibility on the rear of my 2010 America, I decided to go with Hyper-Lites U32 kit, with red flashing brake lights and running lights and also their 16 LED amber turn signals.
I mounted all four LED modules on Hyper-Lite’s license plate mounting bracket.
When you take the license plate off, you’ll see that the wires for the turn signals are just tucked in the space in the center of the turn signal/license plate mounting bracket. There is also a hole that the wires pass through from the underside of the fender.
This turned out to be the perfect place to mount the Hyper-Lite’s flasher module and pass the wires for the brake/run lights through to get them down to the tail light housing.
The red, gray and black wires need to go to the tail light housing. Since they would be exposed to the elements on the underside of the fender, I twisted the three wires together and put shrink tubing over them for protection.
There was plenty of space in the hole of the turn signal/license plate mounting bracket to feed the wires through, but the hole that the wires pass through to go into the tail light housing was just too small. Also, there wasn’t any slack in the wires going to the tail light socket to be able to attach the Posi-Tap connectors.
So, I cut the wires going to the tail light socket. This allowed me to remove the tail light housing to enlarge the hole and also lengthen the wires.
Once the housing was removed, I used a tapered reamer to enlarge the hole to ½ inch. The housing is plastic and I didn’t want to take the chance of a drill bit grabbing and breaking it. I then put a rubber grommet with a 3/8†ID into the hole to protect the wires from chafing.
I placed the housing on the fender, but left it loose and passed the wires through the grommet. It was a tight fit, but they did go through.
Once the wires were through, I secured the housing to the fender.
I extended the tail light wires by 5 inches. This allowed me to make a nice, stress free loop to attach the Posi-Tap connectors to. I used non-insulated butt splice connectors to join the wires and covered them with shrink tubing.
The wire colors going to the tail light socket are Red, Blue and Black. Since I didn’t have blue wire, I used red and just made sure I got the connection correct. Also, the wire I used was 18 gauge, which was larger than necessary, but that’s what I had available. I used good quality tinned, stranded wire. Don’t use solid or bare copper wire. Solid wire won’t stand up to the vibration and bare copper wire will corrode.
Once the Posi-Tap connectors were installed, it was just a matter of connecting the Hyper-Lite wires to them.
I used a Multi-Meter to verify the function of each of the bike’s wires and this is what I found.
Red = Running Light
Blue = Brake Light
Black = Ground
After connecting the wires according to the Hyper-Lite instructions, I tested the lights and they worked just as advertised.
I put a couple of cable ties on the loops of wire to hold them in position and replaced the tail light lens.
The 16 LED turn signals were much easier, since the turn signal wires were exposed and had plenty of length to attach the Posi-Tap connectors. All I had to do was trim the Hyper-Lite wires to a convenient length and follow the wiring instructions.
The bike’s wiring harness has two wires going to black connectors which then plug into each turn light.
The Black wires on each side are Ground.
The Green wire with a Red stripe is the +12V to the Left turn light.
The Green wire with a Blue stripe is the +12V to the Right turn light.
The wires that go to the turn lights are Black and White.
The Black wires on each side are Ground.
The White wires are +12V to the lights.
After testing the lights, I coiled the wires up and installed the license plate and Hyper-Lite bracket according to the instructions.
The final step was to secure the Hyper-Lite wires that I passed to the underside of the fender. I don’t think the tire would be able to contact them, but there’s no sense taking a chance. I just used three cable ties to tie the wires to the bike’s wires that go into the tail light housing and the job was done.
