Ok guys i bought a HID kit and installed them on my car. Now i used seperate relays for both of them and i used the negative input of the stock headlight wiring to trigger the relays. Headlights work perfect like they should. Well almost. I came out of class tonight and the passenger headlight was on. Then when i parked tonight the driver side headlight flickered for like 5 secs. Is this just stored energy in the ballast or what? Cuz as far as i know there is NO WAY for the ballasts to get power w/o the headlight switch on since that has to trigger the relays. Can anyone help me out please?
Thanks
Jeremy
hmm thats odd actually.....i dont think the ballast sotre energy. you might have a crossed wire or something
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should of just got plug and play
If your car is equipped with drl, your ballast will ground out if it makes any kind of ground contact. I had the same problem. To make sure that it is you ballast grounding remove your headlight so you can reach the ballast to your hids, but do not disconnect them. Simply touch various parts of your bay that has metal (fender, metal bar above headlights) if your lights come on when you do this your ballast is grounding out. to solve this remove your drl fuse from the fuse box( you will loose the drl feature). Now use the ballast and touch any metal part of the car to see if the hids come on. The other option, which is easier to me is just to wrap the whole Hid Ballast with Electrical tape, which should stop the metal to metal contact.
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Ya i found out the problem. I was using the relays to give the headlights a ground and the case was grounding it self out. Got it all fixed. And there are no plug and play HID kits. Ya you can plug them into the headlight harness but i have heard of ppl having more problems doing that so i figured i would go through the extra trouble of running relays. But got it all fixed thanks guys.
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