[perry369]

So my HIDs worked great for about two weeks. just recently the drivers side headlight became intermittent with coming on. Once it comes on it will stay on but i can shut off the car go into the gas station real quick and crank the car back up and it wont come on. I have to shut the lights on and off repeatedly to get it to come back on. I changed the ballast twice and swapped the bulbs and the problem stayed at the drivers side. I have a feeling it is the relay in the relay harness but is is a single pole switch which wouldnt make much sense to me for that to cause the problem. I can hear the relay click when i throw the headlight switch as well. Anyone have any ideas? I am going to try changing the relay harness for now and hopefully that fixes it.

 

[GT800]

Certainly sounds likes a ballast issue. Maybe theres an issue with the bulb to though

 

[perry369]

I changed the ballast twice, i swapped the passenger side to the drivers side and the problem stayed on the drivers side. im stumped.

 

[perry369]

so i took the relay harness completely out of the system and changed the ballas again just keeping the capacitors in place and the problem went away. something fried two of my ballast.

 

[perry369]

never mind. my new ballast i just put in just fried with a capacitor.

 

[GT800]

Are these like horribly cheap ballasts?

 

[perry369]

no, i spent 200 dollars on this one kit i had on my other car then i had two cheaper ballast that fried. They are only frying on the drivers side. At this point i am out of ballast. Any suggestions on a quality H11B kit?

 

[GT800]

Ive had good luck with my Diode dynamics kit

 

[NoXiDe]

Try XENON Ballasts... I got mine installed for like ~100 I think which included the kit. Only thing I've noticed is it flickers really fast just once when you turn them on.

 

[GT800]

Try XENON Ballasts... I got mine installed for like ~100 I think which included the kit. Only thing I've noticed is it flickers really fast just once when you turn them on.

Xenon used to make a great kit. Now their ebay kit is 36 dollars shipped and has plastic ballasts. Their old style bigger ballasts were great ive had some for 4+ years.