HID installation ???

[style619s]

does anyone know how to install HIDs on 2g eclipse ??

 

[squirley8888]

SharpHID.com - Automotive HID Xenon Conversion Lighting Products Then click installation scroll down to eclipse it's for the turbo model but i believe its the same hopefully this helps. Hopefully your kit is similar to theirs as well.

 

[NeMiZiS]

I don't think that this belongs in the 420a bolt on section,but Defiant will take care of that.
But here is a nice installation guide I found, by using the search feature.
Xenon Bulbs - Installation Procedure

 

[VelocitàPaola]

Thread moved to Appearance/Interior/Exterior Forums.

 

[BacknBlack92ESi]

HIDGate on Ebay. Used many kits. Fast shipping. Great product. $56.99 Shipped.

 

[Gamble97]

Just buy a upgraded wire harness. That should be a must. I never did and I did not have fun rewiring the engine harness when it decided to melt itself together as one big wire.

 

[azdave]

Just buy a upgraded wire harness. That should be a must. I never did and I did not have fun rewiring the engine harness when it decided to melt itself together as one big wire.

Unless you are installing the HID kit for your high beams (you shouldn't) there is no need for a relay harness on any 2G Eclipse or Talon as they already have a negative triggered relay system on the low beam circuit.

If your wires fried then there must have been a corrosion issue or some other underlying problem. Everyone around here is running the stock OEM wires. I've had HIDs for over four years with mine used as DRLs that turn on and off every single time I start the car. If the harness was a weak point it would have failed long ago.

 

[Jeff99GS]

Just buy a upgraded wire harness. That should be a must. I never did and I did not have fun rewiring the engine harness when it decided to melt itself together as one big wire.

Sounds like you had a dead short with NO FUSE. If you added a fuse to the hot side of the circut you should never have wires melting together.

 

[Gamble97]

Nope, no dead short. As they were working fine for over a year before it started to melt. The stock wiring has a fuse. So if that went, I would be replacing fuse after fuse.

 

[Jeff99GS]

Nope, no dead short. As they were working fine for over a year before it started to melt. The stock wiring has a fuse. So if that went, I would be replacing fuse after fuse.

Well the only way to melt the stock wiring WITHOUT blowing the stock fuse is to UP the fuse amperage.

For example the headlights fuse may be a 20 amp from the factory....If you switch that to a 30 amp then your weak spot is now the wire NOT the fuse anymore.

Most HID kits pull LESS current (amps) than stock headlights.

 

[Gamble97]

Correct they do pull less current however when they first ignite they pull double to tripple the rated current but it happens so fast it doesn't blow the fuse. I've done sooo much research on these things.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

I dont understand how this is still under discussion. Installation on HID's is pretty much the exact same as normal bulbs, plug the wires up to their designated places and put the bulb in the hole... Its pre school stuff shoving the blocks in the right holes.

If you have an alight kit, you wont have any issues with power, if your kit is cheap like my first one which is still in use today in my best friends car, sometimes you'll have to turn the lights on a few times to get them to ignite. My new kit I paid 40 bucks for and they are flawless... Even with an almost dead battery they ignite and stay on until the battery dies almost fully.

The only discussion should be Installation of projectors, real projectors and HID's. Since there is more to it then just plug and play. but there are already enough discussions on it.

SEARCH.

As for wireing melting? Are you kidding me? If that happens, you are a retard and put the black wire onto the red wire (not really). The burn in process of an HID takes about 1-5 seconds. If the fuse doesn't blow because its "taking double the amperage", 1-5 seconds is NOT enough time for the stock wires to melt, burn, catch onto fire sending your car into the abyss of the Pontiac Fiero world. Nothing!

I as well as tons of others here have installed HID's, more then once on my part as I install a kit atleast once a week on various customer cars, and every installation I have done is the exact same, plug and play. No modification required and not one customer has come back complaining. Half the cars I see every day and each one is still running flawless.

*Edit* sorry there is two HID kits that I installed that failed. Both were in cars that were in a front end crash where ballasts and bulbs were crushed.

 

[ApexVIII]

umm you unplug your stock bulbs, mount the HID ballast, plug in the HID ballast and the new HID bulb, install the HID bulb and turn your head lights on.

if they dint work then you might have have the wires switched around, they are polarity sensitive

 

[Gamble97]

As for wireing melting? Are you kidding me? If that happens, you are a retard and put the black wire onto the red wire (not really). The burn in process of an HID takes about 1-5 seconds. If the fuse doesn't blow because its "taking double the amperage", 1-5 seconds is NOT enough time for the stock wires to melt, burn, catch onto fire sending your car into the abyss of the Pontiac Fiero world. Nothing!

I as well as tons of others here have installed HID's, more then once on my part as I install a kit atleast once a week on various customer cars, and every installation I have done is the exact same, plug and play. No modification required and not one customer has come back complaining. Half the cars I see every day and each one is still running flawless.

I've installed multiple kits and did not install these wrong. They were 100% plug n play. Currently they are on my integra and I have no issues as of yet.
1-5 seconds is not a lot of time, but if you take 1-5seconds each time you turn on your lights it will add up.
Also FYI my kit was not a cheap it, it was a supervision II kit which costs around $225.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

Well I'm saying, the same that Apex did, they are polarity sensitive. One cheap kit I installed for a friend, if you mixed the wires going into the stock harness, the balast started smoking. Switched the wires and they worked fine. All the other kits, if wires were crossed wrong, they just would not turn on. I've even installed HID's on bikes with no ill results.

And if your sitting there trying to burn up your wires by constantly turning them on and off and on and off, then you shouldn't be complaining about burning up the stock harness, HID's aren't a Toy.

 

[ApexVIII]

Well I'm saying, the same that Apex did, they are polarity sensitive. One cheap kit I installed for a friend, if you mixed the wires going into the stock harness, the balast started smoking. Switched the wires and they worked fine. All the other kits, if wires were crossed wrong, they just would not turn on. I've even installed HID's on bikes with no ill results.

And if your sitting there trying to burn up your wires by constantly turning them on and off and on and off, then you shouldn't be complaining about burning up the stock harness, HID's aren't a Toy.

yea its pretty easy.

i first put these HID's on my Camaro, i pluged them in backwards, because thats how the plugs wanted to fit to each other. but mine did not smog, they just did not work at all

so i swaped the wires and they started working.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

HIDGate is the same Ebay company I got my kit from when I had my 2G. They price match any kit on Ebay plus give you a 3% discount. Can't beat getting a kit for $57 shipped at all and the installation was probably the easiest thing I did on my 2G.

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/appearance-interior-exterior/290552-6000k-hids-installed.html