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One of my bulbs went out yesterday and I wanted to put the stock bulbs back in but I ran into an issue. It looks like the shop that installed them cut black and yellow wires and spliced them into the HID wiring. Was this necessary? I can't see how the stock bulbs will get a power feed. Is there a stock adapter missing now and am I screwed? Need help please!!!!!
 

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I believe these are the wires going to the socket for the stock bulbs. They should have left enough of the wire from the socket so you could splice back to it if needed. Doesn't mean they did. The socket will still be in place. When you twist the OEM bulbs in place the power and ground tabs rotate into the socket. Can you see that? If there is enough wire just solder or splice these to the ones going to the HID.
 

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You are missing a little connection port thing. I don't know why they did that there was no reason to doing that at all ..... I would take a picture of the plié your missing but I don't wanna pull the headlights off >.< sorry man
 

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After looking at your first picture the yellow and black wires just need to be spliced back together. Cut their stupid butt splice off and connect yellow and black to the other yellow black near the bulb. That should get it for you.
 

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ohhh just kidding i didnt see your black connector was still their what he said should fix everything ^^^^
 

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It appears one of the ballasts failed. Right now I'm stuck with one HID and one halogen. LOL

Waiting on the new ballast to come in. I am really pissed that the installer just cut those wires. WTF?
 

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That's not nearly as bad as it looks. You can just butt-splice the wires back onto the OEM socket where they cut it and you should have a functional halogen headlight back. But it IS piss poor installation since there's absolutely no need to cut that wire.

CANBus vs. Relay: The Veloster Turbo appears to send a pulse width modulation signal through the headlight (which sits on a CANBus) that drives the relays crazy. If you go the relay route, you'll need to install a capacitor on the relay in order to prevent it from buzzing and self-destructing (since the relay will open and close rapidly due to the PWM signal). The circuitry on the CANBus headlights are robust enough to drive the high-voltage ballast, so a stand-alone CANBus error canceler harness or some sort of CANBus harness with built-in capacitor and resistors to even out the PWM voltage modulations will be more than sufficient to supply power to the ballast and lights. And there'll be far less wiring to deal with (the CANBus harness plugs into the OEM headlight power out, then plugs into the ballast/igniter combo) and will be a far cleaner install. With the CANBus harness I can still remove the entire headlight assembly by disconnecting the headlight harness only*.

*Except I installed the Ballast on a bracket far away from the wheel well, so I'll need to disconnect the ballast too...But IF I wanted to, I could have installed the ballast onto the bottom of the headlight housing and the entire headlight could be removed with simply disconnecting the main headlight harness.
 

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That's the system I put on mine. I used the relay and capacitor, but had I known the CANBus harness would have worked, I would have gone with it. I will probably switch to that when I have to pull the bumper for the FMIC install.

Here is a pic of how well they work.

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