HID Issues!!
02-15-2011, 06:31 PM
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HID Issues!! Ok so last Friday night I lost my keys 
. Not such a good idea so I have onstar tow my car to the dealer. I'm thinking its only going to cost me $100 for a new one right 
. So they start working on it and about 2hrs later they call me telling me my car is all F@#$ed up. WTF he said the lights were flashing and there tech2 was cutting in and out and the bcm was throwing a lot of codes. So I get off the phone thinking the dude is just trying to get some more cash out of me when a light bulb pops on in my head. The past 2 months I've been having issues with my pass. headlight flickering when the DRL were on I never paid any attention to it. To make a long story short that headlight was back feeding to the bcm and messing it all up. So $206 later I have a new key. 
. Not such a good idea so I have onstar tow my car to the dealer. I'm thinking its only going to cost me $100 for a new one right . So they start working on it and about 2hrs later they call me telling me my car is all F@#$ed up. WTF he said the lights were flashing and there tech2 was cutting in and out and the bcm was throwing a lot of codes. So I get off the phone thinking the dude is just trying to get some more cash out of me when a light bulb pops on in my head. The past 2 months I've been having issues with my pass. headlight flickering when the DRL were on I never paid any attention to it. To make a long story short that headlight was back feeding to the bcm and messing it all up. So $206 later I have a new key. 
02-16-2011, 11:26 AM
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they never work right because if your running lights are on the same as your low beams they arnt getting enough power to run the running lights so they **** up, seen it lots last car i did was on 03 lincon towncar i just turned the drl's off.
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I had a relay harness and a resistor installed. Like I said no issues for awhile and then one day it was messed up. I think the resistor went bad but it was only the pass.side that was messed up
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Been running HIDs for about a year now, and I've got no issues. I pulled both fuses for the DRLs and I run a HID harness. I did have some trouble with the HIDs not firing, but that was due to a cheap relay that got water in it. Once I replaced it, the problem went away.
