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944Scott

944Scott

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Did you have any issues fitting the kit? I bought a set with slim ballasts and a separate control box which only uses one of the original bulb connectors as a feed and I cannot get it to work correctly. Any combination of bulb and ballast on either end of the separate control unit works fine but as soon as you hook both sides up one will not work.

The supplier sent me a replacement loom/control unit but I am still having the same issues.




 
No I tried several places and even tried using the same place for both, one light would work and the other would not [&:]
 
I fitted a slim ballast kit to a motorcycle once. For some reason it would only turn on when the engine was running. Something to do with the arc striking? Just a thought but have you tried with car running?
 
Yep sounds like the draw may be too high to get both to fire up. I think there is quite a high current required to get the "arc" to strike. Will be interesting to see if it works with engine running.
 
Had a little bit more of a play but no real joy. Running the car made no difference so I started checking for and found a possible break in the head light wires. As the kit is designed to use just one headlight connector I swapped it to the other side which again made no real difference. As I originally thought there was a problem with the supplied external control unit supplied with the hid's I had asked the supplier to send me another.

So having two control units I used them to fire each unit separately which works but when I switched to high beam the hid with the dodgy wiring would not work and both full beams in the bumper switched but this is probably because I was using the high beam feed from the original connectors as a temporary positive feed for the control units.

I think I need to fix the loom and find suitable positive switched supply before trying again.
 
I've done it the other way around, fitted a new headlight loom from Rayne Automotive and am now thinking of fitting the HIDs.
 
Well after fixing the headlight wiring and trying different 12v take off points I finally managed to prove the kit works. I just need to wait for a Fuse tap to arrive and I will take my 12v supply from the fuse box. Once I have it and its all re installed I will post up some pictures.

I had a look on hids4u.co.uk and their kit (like most other uk supplied others) appeared to be re branded Chinese stuff (not that i'm knocking them) you can see the components are physically the same.
 
Why not take 12v from the back of the alternator? That's what the kit I purchased does and keeps the wiring runs shorter and neater.
 
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