I recently bought a xentec hid kit from ebay. The kit worked fine for about 10 days and then i burnt a ballast out. So the seller sent me a new one and it didn't last but 30 minutes and it too burnt out. I am wondering if my car is doing this or are the ebay ballasts that poor of quality?

 

BTW i ordered an oem Denso kit from 2006 lexus vehicles, i just wanna make sure the ballasts will last before i hook the oem kit up and they burn out too.

 

join the club like many other fleabay buyers.
i'm sure the seller made you pay for shipping

 

I've got several ebay ballasts that have been stellar with over 3 years of use or abuse that are still working fine, I've had plenty of bulb failures but rarely a ballast fails...

 

i think it may be your car man i've had 5 different ebay kits for previous cars of mine and never had a problem

 

Might also be the wiring, how do you currently have it being powered?

 

I bought a Xentech HID kit a while back too, and about 3 months later the bulb exploded AND the inverter burnt out (I dont know which one came first- probably the bulb though). Oh yeah and the first time I got the kit they gave me 1 10K bulb and 1 8K bulb, so i had to re-order bulbs. But for 75 bucks, who cares...

 

yeah,
you fill your car up with super unleaded and it costs more than 75 bucks

 

my friend bought those fake bosch ones and they lasted only 3 weeks.
then you have to pay for shipping both ways back to china about 60 buck plus a 20 dollar processing fee. He has alreaqdy shipped these bad ballasts like 3 times so he is out 200.00. When you see that it is being shipped from china everyone should be cautious.
the warranty is just worthless because of the shipping you have to pay.
get some locally and for sure no shipping or processing fees

 

I got an eBay kit with one burnt out ballast and did warranty and they sent me another broken ballast, I said [freak] it and took off the HID kit.

 

Update folks, i have installed my oem Denso kit and have had no problems, everything is working fine. And actually my ebay seller has been shipping me new ballasts free of charge. This is the 2nd one but hey now i have an extra kit. Ill sell it probably

 

I believe Ming over by F1spec sells some very nice waterproof hid kits w/ 2 yr warranty.

 

I just got a kit for a friend (he's got oe halogen projectors) and the ballast used were so under populated with ANYTHING that they failed to stay lit and get to full brightness....

From left to right: Ebay ballast that sucked, Ebay ballast that worked better than the Hella and The Hella Gen 3 ballst.... makes ya wonder... Tho with this being said my Hella gen 3's won't fire up on the 13.3v 3amp bench power supply but the middle ballast <u>will</u>, which is frankly shocking...


Modified by CarbonizedDX at 6:46 PM 7/11/2008

 

try giving it atleast 12 amps

 

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This is a useless comment, I know how to get ballast to fire, I had a pc power supply at hand for testin ballasts before I found it's 12volt rail was dying. I was more making a point that the middle ballast was able to fire the bulb off 3amps were as OE Hella Gen3's could not. Or to clear the statement up: If it can fire up off 3amps it'll damn sure be problem free getting it's power off the factory power wires...

Also the point of the pic is to show the population of the ballast and that it's what's under the hood that matters....

 

haha damn... my Philips ballasts have been going strong for 5.5 years now.

 

DONT BUY FROM EBAY

 

I have HID's from ebay, work great. No problems.

 

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Shouldn't this be "DON'T BUY KITS".... frankly if you are a smart shopper you can get great stuff off ebay with ZERO issues....

 

Wow this was brought back from the dead.... Was wondering why it was in my recent topics...

 

ebay kits are so cheap so if it does not work throw them in the garbage and buy another set. 50 bucks costs less to fill up your gas tank

 

has any one bought form this guy?
seems like good deal just wanna now before i get some...
?

 

????

Who?

 

http://www.hondamarketplace.com/zerothread/1847971

 

No but I bought from Xenith Xenons whom is a vendor on him and so far I really recommend them. Good service so far even though I've had the HID's less than a week I've ridden with them some and love them so far. I paid $110 for a set for my R1 as they have a sale going on for $30 off right now so that makes them $110 shipped a set.