Smokin GST
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- Dec 24, 2002
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St._Louis_MO
ok, i bought an HID kit today and installed it. complete plug and play system. it uses hella ballasts and 7500k burners. anyway, i got it all plugged up. tried it out... nothing. they flash, but don't stay on. so we checked the ground connections, power connections, and everything. nothing worked, it would just flash (not ALWAYS flash, you had to wait a while inbetween trying) and that was it. well, i thought maybe my battery was ####ed so i went to autozone and dumped $75 on a battery (my old battery was toasted anyway, corrosion everywhere, not pretty). anyway, new battery goes in. nothing. they just flash and don't stay on. well, i said screw it, went to dinner with my brights (bet that pissed people off!) and then came home. after talking to a friend with a 300ZX, he said he had to switch the wires in his headlight harnesses to get the relay to trip correctly. said his was doing the exact same thing, so he changed them and they worked. when i got home, i pulled my car in the garage and swapped the wires in each headlight harness. tried the lights again, and same thing. they just flash, only brighter. well, my dumb ass friend destroyed the fuse for one of the ballasts so i could only test one at a time. i turned the car on and flipped the headlights on, and nothing. turned them off, and back on, and the driver's side one fired up. and stayed lit! about shit my pants at the cool blue glow. anyway, i turned them off and let them sit for about 30 seconds and turned them back on, and the driver's side wouldn't come back on. ok... now i'm just pissed. swap the good fuse (i didn't have any 20amp fuses sitting around and it was too late to go to autozone by this time) into the holder for the other headlight. now that one would flash, but won't fire up and stay on. swap the fuse back. driver's side will work SOMETIMES but not all the time.
my friend said it sounds like the ignitor is firing but the ballast isn't keeping the burner going. i don't know what to do, i'm kinda pissed at this point that i just spent $425 on HIDs and they don't work. does anybody have any suggestions?
my friend said it sounds like the ignitor is firing but the ballast isn't keeping the burner going. i don't know what to do, i'm kinda pissed at this point that i just spent $425 on HIDs and they don't work. does anybody have any suggestions?