| Oil Town XJ | February 5th, 2011 23:23 |
HID help!
I'm ready to toss these stupid things in the trash!!!
I bought the FX-R kit with 50watt Morimoto bulbs and ballast from the retrofit source a couple of months ago and have had nothing but problems. When I was doing the actual retrofit, I had a hard time getting the bulbs to fire and stay on when wired to the battery. I was able to get it down however.
Fast forward to installing the provided harness with my newly retrofitted and I can't get the lights to stay on. They just turn on for a second and shut off immediately after, but the ballasts stay light up. I went over all my wiring a hundred times tried a bunch of different grounds all with the same results. Before I did the retrofit I was running ddmtuning 55watt hid kit and they worked fine.
After talking with the retrofitsource they thought it might be the bulbs, so they sent me out new ones. Installed them today and had the same result, I tried playing around with the fuse they provided for the main power line and one bulb stayed on. The bulb works in both ballast, but the other 3 bulbs I now have dont work in any. Another issue is when I switch to highbeams the light flap for the cutoff only moves a hair.
At this point I'm ready to give up, I've installed hid's before, but never experienced anything like this. The Retrofit source's harness is also shit! Very thin wiring with bad connections.
Here's the kit I installed http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...roducts_id=141
I bought the FX-R kit with 50watt Morimoto bulbs and ballast from the retrofit source a couple of months ago and have had nothing but problems. When I was doing the actual retrofit, I had a hard time getting the bulbs to fire and stay on when wired to the battery. I was able to get it down however.
Fast forward to installing the provided harness with my newly retrofitted and I can't get the lights to stay on. They just turn on for a second and shut off immediately after, but the ballasts stay light up. I went over all my wiring a hundred times tried a bunch of different grounds all with the same results. Before I did the retrofit I was running ddmtuning 55watt hid kit and they worked fine.
After talking with the retrofitsource they thought it might be the bulbs, so they sent me out new ones. Installed them today and had the same result, I tried playing around with the fuse they provided for the main power line and one bulb stayed on. The bulb works in both ballast, but the other 3 bulbs I now have dont work in any. Another issue is when I switch to highbeams the light flap for the cutoff only moves a hair.
At this point I'm ready to give up, I've installed hid's before, but never experienced anything like this. The Retrofit source's harness is also shit! Very thin wiring with bad connections.
Here's the kit I installed http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...roducts_id=141
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