HID Problems
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I have two Xentec kits that did not come with the harness. Will this harness work?
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6k and 8k are just differnt colors. If your bulbs give out a bright white light on the road, and appear white with slightly bluish tint, then they are 6k. If if gives off a bright but slightly blue color on the road and appear very distinguishably blue, then they are 8k.
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more like see if i can get them aimed low enough... 
do u think I can just tape off the stock h/l harness and splice the hid wires in w/out cutting off the end? or would that not work?
do u think I can just tape off the stock h/l harness and splice the hid wires in w/out cutting off the end? or would that not work?
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you got bixenon right?? no splicing is necessary. the 3 prongs from the relay go directly into the stock harness.
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I just push them in or what? the instructions that came with them kinda suck imo..
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Yeah, did he send a black plastic harness adapter? if not, thats okay. The black prong goes in the middle. the other two on the sides (try them one way, if your highs and lows are backwards, switch them around). Then once they are all correct, tape them with electrical tape so that they CANT TOUCH EACH OTHER then tape it all up real good so no water can get in.
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Yeah, did he send a black plastic harness adapter? if not, thats okay. The black prong goes in the middle. the other two on the sides (try them one way, if your highs and lows are backwards, switch them around). Then once they are all correct, tape them with electrical tape so that they CANT TOUCH EACH OTHER then tape it all up real good so no water can get in.
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when you pull the stock bulb out of its harness, the stock harness will have 3 open prong slots. those are the slots they go into.
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When you click the unlock button it sends a predetermined amount of power to the lights. The stock setting is for halogen bulbs, enough to just make them flash. When you have HIDs the amount of power sent through is enough for the first ballast to ignite the bulb but not enough for the second ballast...
As far as the radio is concerned, the ballasts are messing with the reception. The best fix for this is to fab up a lead box to block out the signals the ballasts are throwing out. Other then that there isn't much you can do.
As far as the radio is concerned, the ballasts are messing with the reception. The best fix for this is to fab up a lead box to block out the signals the ballasts are throwing out. Other then that there isn't much you can do.
I'm not sure whether either of these statements are correct or not. I have both highs and fogs and both sides flash when locking and both sides come un when unlocking. Regarding the radio, I'm getting no static whatsoever whether using AM or FM. If the ballasts are "messing with the reception", since I have 4 ballasts my reception should be way jacked up lol. I think as long as you don't mount any of the ballasts directly next, on or top of, a wire loom you should be okay. The cause is likely something else...
A vehicles safety system sends enough voltage to flash the low beam filament of a halogen bulb, which is around 5 amperes each. This isnt enough for a arc-xenon system but if you've got a wire harness on the truck going to the battery, it pulls all the amperage it needs to fire while receiving a ignition signal from the OEM power supply wires.
Radio static from HID systems is RF interference backfeeding through the vehicles power supply (alternator). You don't have this because McCulloch kits are high-quality and are internally potted against RF radiation.