i need help installing my single beam HIDs are numbers 1,2, and 3 connected correctly? i tried reading the DDM instructions but they didn't help AT ALL! my question is does the circled part (number 4) plug into my factory bulb connector? or is there more that has to be done

Current Way Connected


How It Came from DDM

 

Yes, it looks like that is how it should go. Weird how your bulb has the connector circled in number 4, where as a lot of the other DDM bulbs have only prongs (basically the metal spades inside the connector.)

 

well i tried it that way this afternoon and no dice they didn't light up, but i have another solution what was on DDM site that might work

yes i too thought that it wouldn't have the connector, and believe it or not i think my kits might be used!?!?! the ballast have some scratches on them

 

You're putting the headlights on ON and not on Auto, right?

Can you hear the ballasts "humming" at all?

Also, I'm guessing you're not using a relay?

 

yes im putting them on "ON"

no i dont hear any humming

nope no relay just the stuff ddm sent me

and i just tried (like it said on the ddm site) plugging piece 1 from the ballast into the OEM connector, 2 and 3 into the same location and leaving piece 4 and piece 1 from the bulb disconnected and it didn't work, i even tried both ballasts and no dice

 

Yea, 1 and 4 are basically just an extension. You might have better luck with a relay. A friend of a friend, who owns a shop and sells HID kits, said that Expeditions are sometimes finicky, and require a relay. Me thinks that there is a possibility that your ballasts are bad.

Should have went with VVME

Have you also tried flipping the socket when you plug it in? The wiring might be reversed?

 

i have one relay i'll try it out to see how it goes, and your right it might be flipped! i just opened up the package that had the HID kit for the fogs and it has the exposed wires!!!

 

Go grab some 9145 connectors from autozone and slice them into the bare wire. That's what I'm going to do.

 

 

Looks good! What did you finally end up doing to make it work?

 

Hopefully that's just a misaligned headlight and not an oncoming driver's point of view. I thought you said you were going to get 5000k?

 

that is 5000k?

 

Really? Didn't know there was that big a difference between 4300k and 5000k.



That is with the high beams on (have Ultras in there.) You can see the color difference.

How is your cutoff?

Mines not bad compared to stock:

 

i think i might need to adjust mine? what do you guys think? i drove around like that and no one has flashed me, i still need to install the the kit for the fog lights tomorrow, and then later this week i'll install the high beam kit when it gets here, anyways on to the pics

 

They 35W 5000K has a bit more blue than some would think. I know first hand. Also, unless you can control exposure on you camera, or FPS, it always shows up a little bluer than real life.

Lights look good man!