Hid helllllp!!!
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Hid helllllp!!! Here's the situation.... One of my HID's are malfunctioning. My passenger headlight is not coming on at all. I have disassembled and reassembled the wiring to make sure of any faulty connections. Tomorrow, when I get more light, I am going to switch the bulbs to see if it is bad wiring, bulb, or ballast. The ballast seems to be humming and earlier when I disassembled the HID, it came on for 5 minutes and I reassembled it, assuming I fixed the problem. I drove around for a few minutes and it kicked off again!
I went through the process again and now it will not come on at all! When I hit the keypad to turn the lights on, it will kick on for a second and then shut off. I will call DDM tuning tomorrow if I cannot trouble shoot it myself. Any suggestions to where my problem lies?
I went through the process again and now it will not come on at all! When I hit the keypad to turn the lights on, it will kick on for a second and then shut off. I will call DDM tuning tomorrow if I cannot trouble shoot it myself. Any suggestions to where my problem lies? Yea I have the harness and when I started the car tonight my headlights where no where to be found messed with the switch nope shut er down and restarted the car and there they where the harness is a waist of money
Cheap insurance people, cheap insurance.
To reiterate: My fog HIDs recently went out. I remember noticing that under certain road conditions, they would flicker on and off. This occurred around rough sections of road.
While investigating further, I found that one ballast, that I mounted vertically, became unstuck and I also found some water in some of the connectors.
I let them dry out and remounted the ballast and came back the next day. HIDs still didn't work.
I traced everything back to the relay harness. It turns out it wasn't secured properly. A flaky connection just before the actual relay was the cause. So I straightened that section of the harness out and rezip tied it.
EDIT: I meant to conclude that they work fine now.
While investigating further, I found that one ballast, that I mounted vertically, became unstuck and I also found some water in some of the connectors.
I let them dry out and remounted the ballast and came back the next day. HIDs still didn't work.
I traced everything back to the relay harness. It turns out it wasn't secured properly. A flaky connection just before the actual relay was the cause. So I straightened that section of the harness out and rezip tied it.
EDIT: I meant to conclude that they work fine now.
Last edited by GXP25; Dec 24, 2010 at 02:36 PM. Reason: Added some more info.
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