Passenger side HID went out...
Mar 1, 2007, 11:39 PM
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Passenger side HID went out...
My right headlamp keeps on turning off and sometimes it turns back on after I restart the engine. BTW, I am using an aftermarket HID kit. What should I be checking for? Pics of the location?
Mar 1, 2007, 11:47 PM
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Do you happen to have the light switch to the "on" position before turning on the engine? Mine does that if I had the "on" before turning the engine on, same right side light, and I have aftermarket HID kit. The problem goes away if I turn the headlights on after I turn the engine on...maybe more stablize voltage to light up the bulbs when the engine is running?
Mar 2, 2007, 10:21 AM
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What kind of kit do you have?? I had that on my other car (91 GTi) and it did the same thing...I think the kit I had was by Pilot...It was always the passenger side that would just turn off after I had it for a few weeks...It pissed me off so I took it off and sold it with the car...I think it had something to do with the ballast connection piece..
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Mar 3, 2007, 11:10 AM
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thats a sympton of a hid ballast going bad. Either it flickers upon startup or turns on and off randomly. It will eventually burn out. Same thing happened to my Techone hid ballast. I put the good ballast on the bad side, the HID light turned on. So I knew it was the bad ballast.
Mar 3, 2007, 05:13 PM
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My driver side hid also turns off randomly. I have to turn it on and off about 3 times, then its fine. I checked if any connections were loose but theyre all fine. Could this be a bad ballast or unstable voltage?
Mar 3, 2007, 05:26 PM
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Ballast has gone to ****. Extremely common on aftermarket HID kits that make wannabe ballasts out of crappy factories with no quality control. Much less common when OEM ballasts are used like Phillips, Hella, Matsu****a, etc. Of course I'm talking about real ones. A lot of these aftermarket kits have been trying to label their ballasts as OEM ones, but are just a poor imitation.
Mar 5, 2007, 06:19 PM
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This has only happened to me about 3 times and hasnt happened again could it be my hids breaking in maybe? It doesnt flicker or anything, it turns on normally like it should.
