HID Headlamp Help
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HID Headlamp Help
I have an 07 King Ranch f150. JUst bought a cheap pair of bixenon hids off ebay. Has the hi/lo relay and what not. everyting is there thats needed. Ive done many hid installs but this one got me stumped. The Hids work but on with high beams. I know the lows work as well cuz the other night it glitched or something after i turned the truck off and the lows came on and then i could got hi low no problem. But havent been able to replicate. So i need a little help. Do i need to unplug the DRL relay/resistor, or what. Throw me some questions/answers and ill replay asap.
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it sounds ridiculous but it happened to my buddy in his car. We swapped out the factory 15a fuse and replaced it with a 25a. They worked fine thereafter. And I see alot of people talking about daytime running lights and their HID. I never took the relay for the DRL off my truck and haven't had a problem with my HID's. I remember changing the "Exit Lighting" feature on the truck buts thats it.
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Well i dont feel comfortable replacing with a higher amp fuse, you are just asking for trouble like a voltage spike that frys the wires instead of the fuse cause you got a fuse that could handle the spike not the wires though. So im gunna try unhooking the DRL relay and see if that helps. If not then im gunna open a can of whoop *** and really dig into the mother, and see if something is crossed in the hi/low relay. I try finding people that have similar issues but every thread has a different answer and everybodys issues just seem similar just with little one-off details. Im tired of high beaming the crap outta people.
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it sounds ridiculous but it happened to my buddy in his car. We swapped out the factory 15a fuse and replaced it with a 25a. They worked fine thereafter. And I see alot of people talking about daytime running lights and their HID. I never took the relay for the DRL off my truck and haven't had a problem with my HID's. I remember changing the "Exit Lighting" feature on the truck buts thats it.
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Update.
Changed some wiring around. now i have low beam but no high.
Scenario:
Autolamp position with fogs pulled.
low beam hids come on but i have to put the highs on first to ignite them, they come on and i then i put it back to low beam so my fogs will come on.
Somebody said they had to turn of the some sort of lighting feature, obviously with a Scanner.
Why wont my hi beams work. Where is the resistor/relay for DRL. Dont know if that will do anything but its worth a try. Any links to possible related write ups would be appreciated.
Changed some wiring around. now i have low beam but no high.
Scenario:
Autolamp position with fogs pulled.
low beam hids come on but i have to put the highs on first to ignite them, they come on and i then i put it back to low beam so my fogs will come on.
Somebody said they had to turn of the some sort of lighting feature, obviously with a Scanner.
Why wont my hi beams work. Where is the resistor/relay for DRL. Dont know if that will do anything but its worth a try. Any links to possible related write ups would be appreciated.