I've been having problems with my newly installed HIDs and up till now its still messing up. My last post couple days ago

HIDs are SCREWED.
This is what happens, about 4 seconds after I turn on my lights my left beam just shuts off, only my left low beam. On HIDs, before they've warmed up, they're very blue and they 'turn' to white after a couple seconds. Its right at that point where you see it change to superwhite that my left beam just shuts off. Kind of does a little flicker for a mil and then shuts off completely. I can turn it on again, but I have to turn off my lights and turn it on again, but same thing happens. At first I thought it was a fuse problem and yesterday when I checked it they were still good. After that I even wired up my foglights to the 9006 wire to see if power was just cutting off somewhere and power checked good, it never turned off. Its the ballast that went to sht on my left headlamp I'm thinking. When I first installed them, they were running great for two hours. I went to sleep, woke up the next morning and while I was driving to work, I see my left beam just turn off while I was on the freeway (not bumpy). So anyway right now my heart is aching and I have to mourn for these HIDs. In a couple days, I'm gonna re-install my NON-HIDS back if I don't find out exactly whats wrong and if i can't fix it. I'll post a pic of a "before the 4 seconds" and "after the four seconds" picture. Anyone have this problem before on OEM HIDs or aftermarket HID kits? Sound like a ballast problem to you? Is there a REPLACEMENT or fixer for ITR HID ballasts if they break? Please let me know. Oh and again, the problem is only on the driver side. Oh and if the ballast IS screwed, can I do anything with the headlamps, say put in an aftermarket HID kit and get the same effect since they're HID housing? what a waste...


What can I do???

 

if you open up the black casing around the ballasts (not the actually ballast itself), you can replace it with a phillips ballast. The only thing is that the cable from the JDM oem ballast is shorter than the philips ballasts, so you might have some difficulty

 

Does your HID kit have a direct connection to the battery?

Does your HID kit have a relay?

 

Yup!

I was just going to say the exact same thing!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jonl1975 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Does your HID kit have a direct connection to the battery?

Does your HID kit have a relay?

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These do not connect directly to the battery and yes there is a relay (a relay INSIDE the ballast) I was thinking a relay was messed up inside the ballast, but I'm not gonna open it up to find out.

*update*
I was driving around yesterday night and when I turned on my lights, they actually stayed on for a good solid 5 minutes or longer then they went out. Is it the ballasts or what? Could I be having an electrical problem? Do OEM HIDS have some type of surge protecting circuit kind of thing and thats why one of my low beams is shutting off? Could it possibly be the bulb dying out.. slowly? ideas anyone?

 

What Phillips ballast exactly would I need for a direct replacement (or should I say modified replacement) to my headlights? I don't know too much about aftermarket kits but theres 4100, 5k, 6k, 8k. Which one would I be looking at? Or are those just the bulbs output and the ballasts are all the same?? not sure.

 

the oem hid's are 4300k, so id go for that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ITR00-1200 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've been having problems with my newly installed HIDs and up till now its still messing up. My last post couple days ago

HIDs are SCREWED.
This is what happens, about 4 seconds after I turn on my lights my left beam just shuts off, only my left low beam. On HIDs, before they've warmed up, they're very blue and they 'turn' to white after a couple seconds. Its right at that point where you see it change to superwhite that my left beam just shuts off. Kind of does a little flicker for a mil and then shuts off completely. I can turn it on again, but I have to turn off my lights and turn it on again, but same thing happens. At first I thought it was a fuse problem and yesterday when I checked it they were still good. After that I even wired up my foglights to the 9006 wire to see if power was just cutting off somewhere and power checked good, it never turned off. Its the ballast that went to sht on my left headlamp I'm thinking. When I first installed them, they were running great for two hours. I went to sleep, woke up the next morning and while I was driving to work, I see my left beam just turn off while I was on the freeway (not bumpy). So anyway right now my heart is aching and I have to mourn for these HIDs. In a couple days, I'm gonna re-install my NON-HIDS back if I don't find out exactly whats wrong and if i can't fix it. I'll post a pic of a "before the 4 seconds" and "after the four seconds" picture. Anyone have this problem before on OEM HIDs or aftermarket HID kits? Sound like a ballast problem to you? Is there a REPLACEMENT or fixer for ITR HID ballasts if they break? Please let me know. Oh and again, the problem is only on the driver side. Oh and if the ballast IS screwed, can I do anything with the headlamps, say put in an aftermarket HID kit and get the same effect since they're HID housing? what a waste...


What can I do???
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you could break your long paragraph into easier read paragraphs.

this may yield a better reult.

Tom - who refuses to read this

 

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I can buy Phillips ballasts seperately? Reputable place to buy them from, phone numbers, email? Do I get them in pairs or just one?

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by canuck-mx6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you can replace it with a phillips ballast. The only thing is that the cable from the JDM oem ballast is shorter than the philips ballasts, so you might have some difficulty</TD></TR></TABLE>

How hard exactly would installation be, brief description of what I'm looking at?

 

you can buy a philips LQV212 ballast from the link in my signature, or try http://www.suvlights.com. You can purchase an individual ballast.

Just ensure that you get an unmodded ballasts, you need one with a p32d connector.