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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 06:31 PM
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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.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 07:24 PM
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so you have hid's in your running lights/low beams? what year is your gxp?
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 07:25 PM
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damn that sucks....
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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 10:37 AM
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I had hids in my low beams took them out and its an 06. They worked fine for a while then started ******* up
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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 10:44 AM
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Did you use a relay harness?
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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 11:21 AM
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i hade the same issue with mine i had the relay on there as well i took the dam things out
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Old Feb 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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I have HID fogs with the relay harness and my HID boxes just took a dump!
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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.
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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 01:52 PM
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i have hid's in both my vehicles, 0 issues with any of them.
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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Definitely pull DRL fuses with HIDs.
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 12:34 PM
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Gp don't have DRL fuse
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Haulin_Ls4_GxP
Gp don't have DRL fuse
OOPS. Sorry. That would be a PITA. Imps are easy.
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Haulin_Ls4_GxP
Gp don't have DRL fuse
Originally Posted by TSS09SS
OOPS. Sorry. That would be a PITA. Imps are easy.
One of the FEW benefits to having an SS!
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Ahhh, Love my 05'
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Haulin_Ls4_GxP
Gp don't have DRL fuse

But they can be controled by the headlight toggle on your steering wheel. All I do is switch them off everytime i start the car and I've been fine for over a year now.
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