Hey everyone, I'm a complete idiot when it comes to anything electrical but I figured I could install a simple plug and play HID kit. It's a bi-xenon kit. I'm almost positive everything is wired correctly. Both headlights turn on, but only the driver side switches to high beam. The passenger stays in low-beam. I hear the relay clicking when I switch to high beams, could I have a bad bulb or ballast? I'm not sure what tells the bulbs to move when I turn on high beams on. I would appreciate any insight on this.

 

I know on some of the kits ive done, you have to move the prongs around in the connector on the HID kit end that plugs into the factory bulb connector. And sometimes the prongs don't seat into the connector all the way, so when you plug it in the prong gets pushed out of the back side of the connector.
Hope this helps
David

 

Tomorrow I'll unplug all the connections and check to see if any of the prongs have bent. Thanks alot! If it's all wired correctly, I guess it's gonna mean I have a defective part...

 

Make sure you check your fuses too, I got a completely new kit (covered under warranty) just to find out there are separate fuses for each side. But if all that is good then you have a defective part.

 

One of my bulbs sticks and sometimes doesnt retract/extend. I think its a bad magnet. Pull it from the housing and with a glove (dont get oil from your hands on the bulb) play with it and see if its hung up.

 

What brand/manufacturer in your HID kit?

 

It is a xentech kit. I bought it for cheap so I'm guessing it's just not a high quality kit. If it's just a bad bulb, new bulbs aren't too expensive it just sucks waiting for shipping. The low beams are bright enough for now though

 

Sounds like a bad magnet like I said. Mines Xentec and my pax side headlight wont even move

 

OK looks like I fixed it. My high beams and low beams were also reversed so I switched two wires on the connector for your stock headlight harness and that fixed the high/low beam reversal and for whatever reason now my passenger side headlight functions like it should. Thanks for all of your input

 

I glad you got it fixed! How do you like that kit? I have a kit with hid low and what looks like a H3 bulb on the high (Highs are pointless...). Im going to get another set soon, and I was just going to get a single 55w set, but if these dual kits are good I might switch to a true high/low hid set.

 

i have a xentec kit for low beam but the ballast only has a two prong connection while the factory headlight harness has a 3 female prong connection. what gives? can i fix this to use my HIDs?

 

When it only has two prongs it a single beam kit, no high beams so no need for a 3rd prong. Factory connector has High beam prong, Low beam prong, And ground prong.