alright guys, i'm posting for my friend. Just like the topic says, he has a 93 lude and he has JDM headlights. Well as far as i know he told me that they take a different bulb then the other lights so he had to put new wiring harnesses on. ANYWAYS the problem is we drive around here and there at night and we keep losing a headlight, so naturally we stop and check it out and EVERYTIME the bulb is OK but the dam black plastic clip that pushes onto the bulb is melted. first it was the right headlight. We replaced it with one from a civic (same bulb, same harness). then a couple nights ago the right one was fine but we lost the left one.

Do you know what the heck is going on? Or something we could do to make it stop doing that?

Replace fuse with a different fuse amperage perhaps...?

 

I'd love to know also, Im in the same boat... anyone?

 

your wiring is incorrect, if its getting hot enough to melt, something hot is grounding out or a ground is hitting a hot wire, make sure all your connections are straight first

 

Interestingly enough I have the same problem, I have a '95 JDM Prelude with stock wiring harness, the front left headlight connector is melted slightly and looking through the previous history of the car, the front left headlight has been replaced a fair few times. I had to replace it when I bought the car (oo about 4 days ago!). Not figured this one out yet

 

check the wires as far back as you can for shorts, and make sure the same bulb is used in both the driver and passenger side lights

 

i was thinkin replace the headlight fuses with a lesser amperage one.

 

i wired up mine like how the usdm ones work.

i'm wondering if yall tried to make the h4's into part of the high-beam too?

cause that might cause the melting

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by petern101 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i wired up mine like how the usdm ones work.

i'm wondering if yall tried to make the h4's into part of the high-beam too?

cause that might cause the melting</TD></TR></TABLE>
Best post of the thread! If your wiring is wrong and you are powering the highbeams on the H4s then you are pulling too much amps.

And BTW changing the fuse does not change the amp draw. Just raises or lowers the amount of current for the circuit to break.

 

The only thing i noticed with my JDM headlights is that I intially had them incorrectly grounded. THe wires were not melting but the lights themselves were 2x dimmer. You do have an interesting problem tho...

 

Hey guys there was a recall for the prelude 92-96 due to a fault in the headlights i have the info NHTSA Recall Number 06E025000, and 06E026000 released on 03/23/2006 the # is 323-838-2988 or 305-477-1356. my reference is cars.com vehicle safety recalls. it doesn't go into what for but i would imagine this might help out some what . my wiring caught fire a while back and i just replaced both housings and lamps with a projection type.

 

^well the recall wouldn't neccessary involve the jdm headlights.

and the problem still seems ppl are wiring them incorrectly or faulty ground, etc.

and they are just now releasing a recall for a 10 + year old car? i think the recall is a response too ppl messing up their wirings or installing hid kits or watever tinkering.

my stock wiring / the new jdm wiring has never let me down and i just use regular bulbs too

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by petern101 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i wired up mine like how the usdm ones work.

i'm wondering if yall tried to make the h4's into part of the high-beam too?

cause that might cause the melting</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think that might be what it was. he has H4's in the JDM lights, but the stock bulbs for th e USDM lude are different from what i know. His lights are adjusted too high, and so he was flicking his high beams on and off just to see how high they were and i think that normally the H4 bulbs with civic wiring harness's will work OK but if you do the high beams it just pulls too much amperage since the bulb is designed for A)a JDM prelude (liek the whole car) and B) a honda civic lighting system not a USDM lude

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by esedulerp5tenin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i was thinkin replace the headlight fuses with a lesser amperage one.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i thought about doing that too, to save the life of the wiring harness's but if the fuses just keep popping before anything else, yeah i'll save the wiring harness but i dont think i'll ever figuire out what the heck is wrong.

 

The thing is.. mine is a JDM Prelude (SiVtec LSD) which is odd... as far as I know the wiring for the headlights has not been messed with at all, will check in more detail tomorrow...

 

bump just to see if anyone else might know whats up... cause now he's telling me that the headlight bulb that has not melted the wiring harness that we switched before, has a low beam out, and the other one has a high beam out, this is nuckin futs!