I ordered a kit from DDMTuning, and I have the driver side lamp working, but the passenger lamp wont turn on. I have everything connected and grounded properly, and have tested the passenger side with the driver side wiring and it works, so its something to do with the way 2003+ are wired.
Anyone know what to do to get these working? Do I have to switch some wires around?
Also, the high beam output for the hid's arent working, but if I put a regular bulb in, it works. so I dont know.
I have the DRL's disabled by grounding the blue wire from the BCM.
Did you install a relay for each light and wire directly to the battery? I put a 40 amp relay with 40 amp in-line fuse on each lamp and it works fine now...the stock harness will sometimes not have the power to strike the ballasts that your HIDS use
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I have a relay harness that came in the box with the kit.
It plugs into the driver's side blue socket from the back of the headlamp, then has two plugs that go into each ballasts, then the power wire, the ground wire, and a long wire that goes to the passenger side, that connects to the HID itself.
Check the pins on the harness they sent you.
It might not be wired right,i had to switch the pins around on both kits i bought from them.
No biggy just check DDM tunings website for pin locations.
Well here.... Blue is for high beams, White for low beams, Brown for ground.
Get a test light and find which wires on your factory plug are high/low and match them up.
http://ddmtuning.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=1&pcid=0&nav=0
Oh and btw if you have to move the pins around,get a very small Flathead screwdriver or a pin puller to do it,cause you will break pins trying to pull them out.
blue02zee24 wrote:Check the pins on the harness they sent you.
It might not be wired right,i had to switch the pins around on both kits i bought from them.
No biggy just check DDM tunings website for pin locations.
Well here.... Blue is for high beams, White for low beams, Brown for ground.
Get a test light and find which wires on your factory plug are high/low and match them up.
http://ddmtuning.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=1&pcid=0&nav=0
Oh and btw if you have to move the pins around,get a very small Flathead screwdriver or a pin puller to do it,cause you will break pins trying to pull them out.
Im almost 99% positive thats the way I have everything all hooked up. It answers the fact you dont do anything with the passengers blue 9007 plug, you just leave it unplugged.
Ill go through and rewire everything though, make sure I have really good grounds.
When I switch the polarities around, I need to do it where the drivers side blue 9007 plug goes into the HID kits relay harness? Do I need to move around the stock harnesses wires, or the relay harness wires?
Yeah the passenger side plug will not be used.
Dont mess with your factory harness plug on the drivers side,leave it be,but look inside the ddm harness you'll see 3pins,make sure those 3 pins match the pins on the factory harness.
blue------ highs
brown---ground
white----lows
Get a test light and test your factory plug,then rewire your ddm harness to match.
Hope this helps.
blue02zee24 wrote:Yeah the passenger side plug will not be used.
Dont mess with your factory harness plug on the drivers side,leave it be,but look inside the ddm harness you'll see 3pins,make sure those 3 pins match the pins on the factory harness.
blue------ highs
brown---ground
white----lows
Get a test light and test your factory plug,then rewire your ddm harness to match.
Hope this helps.
ah ok, Hopefully that will work, but now i need to figure out, why after splicing my stock harness apart, the driver side stock bulb is dim as hell, while the passenger lights up perfectly, do you think after cutting it, it doesnt make as good of a connection now? I am using the quick clamp connects, so the wires arent going anywhere.
Borderlin3 wrote:blue02zee24 wrote:Yeah the passenger side plug will not be used.
Dont mess with your factory harness plug on the drivers side,leave it be,but look inside the ddm harness you'll see 3pins,make sure those 3 pins match the pins on the factory harness.
blue------ highs
brown---ground
white----lows
Get a test light and test your factory plug,then rewire your ddm harness to match.
Hope this helps.
ah ok, Hopefully that will work, but now i need to figure out, why after splicing my stock harness apart, the driver side stock bulb is dim as hell, while the passenger lights up perfectly, do you think after cutting it, it doesnt make as good of a connection now? I am using the quick clamp connects, so the wires arent going anywhere.
drivers side fuse blew, dont know how, but Im a retard.
Anyway, I tried cutting and splicing all the wires on the ddm harness, connected the white to the brown, connected the blue to the brown, and both light up the driver side Hid, but not the passenger side, and STILL nothing happens at all when I switch the High beams on. not even on the dash, nothing lights up.
You get a dual Hi/Low kit, or just a low kit.
My DDM kit on my car was just P&P. Plug into DS and PS and boom. Lights.
So not sure whats holding yours out.
M62, 42's, ZZP 3", ZZP S3 H/E
214whp 190wtq
slvrblit wrote:You get a dual Hi/Low kit, or just a low kit.
My DDM kit on my car was just P&P. Plug into DS and PS and boom. Lights.
So not sure whats holding yours out.
do you have pictures? I bought the hi/lo kit
As far as what wire does what and where its at, Ive literally reached my limit, I can no longer remember anymore, I can not comprehend any more tech bull. I need to talk to someone who has this exact car, with the same car, and just follow them, I can no longer do it. I cant explain the amount of frustration, and this is why I HATE electrical gremlins, because it can be from any wire, in any location.
As it stands right now, the way the pictures look, the driver side lights up. If I turn the plugs on both ballasts upside down, nothing works at all. as it both sides are plugged in upside down. and every wire is connected to its mate as it came from factory.
Driver side ballast, plugged in upside down, but works the exact same plugged in correctly, with no change on the passenger side
Passenger side, plugged in upside down
Wiring, HID harness is on top, stock harness on bottom, I have no idea what wire does what.
and the driver side lit up
@!#$ not being able to edit posts, especially when you make a big one like me
This is the passenger side ballast
It is plugged in upside down, the driver side is plugged in correctly.
Oh man you have a different ballast than i do,i have the slim,not sure if there the same or not.
I know my ddm harness has 3 wires blue,brown,white,but mines on a 02 cavi,but i wouldnt think the headlight harness would be different on yours.
Did your hid harness have a plug that plugs into your headlight harness?
blue02zee24 wrote:Oh man you have a different ballast than i do,i have the slim,not sure if there the same or not.
I know my ddm harness has 3 wires blue,brown,white,but mines on a 02 cavi,but i wouldnt think the headlight harness would be different on yours.
Did your hid harness have a plug that plugs into your headlight harness?
yeah, my kit has the same wires, blue brown and white, going to the blue plug, that plugs into the driver side's blue plug.
I may take everything off and exchange it for the slim ballasts, they look like they might be easier to work with.
Blue02z24, how exactly did you wire yours up, did you plug everything in like its supposed to, but did you cut or move any of the 3 wires around? or just plug the sockets into the ballasts backwards?
when i got mine i had to use a test light and move my pins around they were not lined up right i own a 03 cavy
2003 2.2 ecotec turbo 250 whp 247tq
Try flipping your passenger side plug and see what happens.
Im gonna return the kit for the slim ballasts, it will be like $20 more, but it might work better, youre pictures are gonna help the install, what kind of tool do you need to pull and replace pins? I tried googling, but I cant get the name.
Try your local auto parts,tell em your looking for a pin puller,or just do what i did and buy a very very small Flathead screwdriver works just as good.
Dragging this back from the dead because it's GREAT info!
That image was PERFECT for what I needed! That's exactly the same kit I ended up with. I ordered DDM Tuning's bi-xenon kit and got my lights working, but they wouldn't switch between hi / lo. I had two of the pics switched due to the extremely vague instructions they give on their page. And I COMPLETELY forgot to do the DRL disable! So glad I saw this post before I started driving around with my car.
This is almost worthy of sticky status.
04 cavy---in progress
Cavalier-1 Deer-0
screamindemon wrote:This is almost worthy of sticky status.
x2! With a note to remember to do the DRL delete first!
Mine will be done later today when I wake up. I went 28 hours without sleep so yeah, tired, lol.
