so today i've installed bi xenon hids on my bolt. took me about 1 hour, would've been much less if gm engineers were a little brighter and designed a headlight assembly a little better... anyway, overall i am impressed with them, except i don't get high beams for both lights, it's either 1 or the other lol... i checked all the connections, everything looked solid...
the one thing that surprised me in this kit is that it only had 1 blue socket connector, shouldn't there be 2?
i anybody had same problem ?
If im not mistaken hid's don't have highbeams. However to better explain that in the bixenon bulb they tilt to appear brighter/cover more area, mine light up about 6 more inches of field they don't get brighter just more light is brought out. I can take a photo for you if you want.
Question is are you running 2 of these in each housing and want them both on or like me with the single bulb housing ??
Also where did you get the kit from ?
- T.
no i only have 1 bulb for both highs and lows... i knows how it tilts, i've read... but mine just blink when switch them to highs, but light output doesn't get brighter
mine work, but caused my BCM to see low resistance and kill the DRLS with a Check "wrench" light
now for the blue plug, are you talking about the 9007 plug??? theres only one... a hot, a ground from the BCM for low, and a ground from the BCM for high. my hids have a second white plug for the high beams.
Take an ohmmeter and check your resistance, and compare it to what it should be for your car for the year
Andrey B wrote:no i only have 1 bulb for both highs and lows... i knows how it tilts, i've read... but mine just blink when switch them to highs, but light output doesn't get brighter
They're not supposed to get 'brighter' just a bigger output. At least thats how mine work, I got mine from John. Until you said the brighter comment I saw a problem. Does the beam get wider/higher or it just blinks and nothing different AT ALL happens ?
Also I disabled my DRL's. Can't see that being the problem however.
i disabled DRLs too, didn't help.... when it blinks it doesn't not go higher at all... i've placed a piece of paper next to light beam and switching to highs did absolutely nothing in terms of widening or elevating that beam.... i've came across to a conclusion that probably 9007 xenon bulbs aren't designed for high beams at all. as opposed to a regular halogen bulb, it has 2 separate spirals, where as xenon doesn't... and that defeats the whole purpose of high beams in hids
ummmm. duh. if your gonna get HID's do it right. get projectors to. theres no way around it.
are bi xenon ballasts any different than high/low beam ones?
My 9007's bi-xenon hid's work just fine. The bulb should physically be moving when you're switching from low to high...have someone click it and watch, see if it moves or not. If it doesn't, then either:
a) the motor on the bulbs are bad (highly doubtful both were bad out of the box)
b) you didn't actually buy bi-xenon's just regular ones
c) your ballast isn't sending the signal to the motors (most likely not the right ballasts for the bulbs)
d) you wired the signal wires wrong
I'd put money on you didn't buy bi-xenon's, even if they said they were, you most likely got ripped off.
'03 Cavalier
DesertTuners.com
yea, you're right, i almost did get ripped off... i realized they weren't bi xenons so i got a refund
Lnhiv, where did you buy yours??
I got mine from ebay. Just search for XenTech. I've had them for about 5 months without any issues.
'03 Cavalier
DesertTuners.com
My Bi Xenons from VVME work properly. I had to swap wires around in VVME's harness to make it work though.
