Well, for whatever reason, somewhere between parking my truck with the lights working and coming back a few hours later one of my headlights decided not to work.

OK, I got an HID kit, comes with two Hella ballasts, two relays, and two lights (ofcourse). Anyways, while looking for a problem to this, I have tried anything and everything possible. I checked all the fuses and everything was fine. I switched the ballast from the drivers side and tried it on the passengers side and it worked, did the same with the light. Both worked. I connected and tightened all wires and connections, and I came across that a fuse had broken somewhere between doing everything. But it was a fuse in a wire connecting the battery and the relay. I replaced it, but to no avail. I installed the ground for the relay on the same screw as the one in the headlight wiring harness. And thinking maybe the ground had corroded, I took a steel wire brush and scrapped everything possible, and even tried putting dialectic fluid between the connectors and screw for good luck.



Considering my luck has been short with this, I need some help. So I have spent about 4-5 hours off and on looking for possible problems and going over everything about a hundred times.

Tomorrow I'm looking for an old light bulb I can plug directly into the trucks headlight wiring harness to make sure electricity is getting to everything. Past that maybe it's the relay that came with the kit, but how does a relay go bad, and can I fix it?

Or are there any other possible problems that could cause this? Thanks ahead of time.

 

Does your HID kit hook directly to the battery or does it feed off the truck's system?

If its off the truck's system, in the end, you'll end up having lots of problems, splice in your own wires, fuse it to 15A and wire it to the battery yourself, only use the trucks +12V to trip the relay.

When I had a non-direct wire system, I'd have intermitent problems with the headlights lightning because they couldn't pull the starter current they needed through the stock lightning system.

Otherwise, there are only two fuses to check for the headlights, a right and a left under the dash.

Daniel

 

It feeds off of both I think. It just uses the battery to trip the relay (atleast I think, it goes directly to the relay) and the ballast hooks up to the headlight pigtail. And there was no splicing to install, it was all plug and connect. They had an adapter connect to the pigtail socket.

 

Oh, and I haven't had problems yet. It had been working for a few months just fine, and now it's only the drivers side light.

 

shouldve bought xenarcs.....

A buddy of mine put an HID conversion on his harley truck. The lights worked fine for a short while, now they are different colors and one doesnt always fire when he turns on the lights.

I bought the xenarcs

 

the only prob i have is the truck needs to be running to get both bulbs burnin but i did cut off the plug and just sodered the wires
been over a year no probs

 

I put Xenarcs on my '02 . . .

Loved 'em, great, beautiful, no problems.

If you can get your back or exchange them for Xenarcs, do so.

IMHO

 

Have had Xenarcs for almost two years.

Work fine. Very happy with them.

I do have a little "smoke" look in one when they are off though. Don't know what it is. I'll have to get involved in it.

 

Yeah, I used to run a custom kit like hslightnin, but I switched out to Xenarcs about a year ago...they are a gorgeous fit.

The only reason I'd consider changing again is that one-piece headlight-blinker I saw for sale on the Harley board...it looked pretty sweet.