HID Install Problems.

[BrianDye]

Oh yeah thats not too bad at all, i figured you were gonna say like 100$ or somethin for installation lol


but my dual beam 9004 10,000k's w/ the relay were 90$ shipped, then installation cost me like 1n hour haha

 

[dothedeww]

Ya im gonna do the fogs myself. I only had the shop do the headlights because im not too electrically talented.

Im also looking to do my off-road lights in HID...do you know how I would go about doing that? I dont know what bulbs are in tehre now.

 

[BrianDye]

Yeah fogs are basically gonna be like headlights, probably a little easier, cus theres more room to work and mount the ballasts, its honestly easy and impossible to mess up unless you switch the pos, and neg. wires to the battery lol.


As for your off road lights, i dont think you can, unless they make a kit for that bulb, which im pretty sure its a no, because you have the ballasts that you have to mount by the bulb, so your not gonna have room. You can buy HID offroad lights now i think like 3500 or 5000k from murrays, autozone, and advance autoparts, its like 100$ for a decent size big set of 2, then the next size bigger is like 130$ (theyre both big, not sure how many inches, i think the small one might be 5 or 6, big one 7 or 8")

 

[dothedeww]

If you buy the HID lights from autozone... are they just plug and play? Would I need to rewire everything (offroad lights are wired from fusebox to a realy to the lights)...or is it just plug and play with teh existing stuff?

 

[BrianDye]

Yep they just have the power and ground coming out of them, you could just swap them for your off road lights, using all your existing switches and whatnot.

 

[BrianDye]

Heres the 2 different lights.

I was wrong, theyre 109$ a piece for the 4" ones, and 119$ for the 7" one.

So for 2 4" ones it would be like 218$ but they would be so much better than your regular halogen off-road lights

 

[dothedeww]

Ya. But also is the ballast located inside the bulb itself?

 

[BrianDye]

Yep you just mount it, then run the wires. Theres a pos and neg coming out of it, the ballast and starter are built into the light. so just plug and play.

 

[dothedeww]

Sorry for so many questions..but hopefully this will be the last one.

Right now I have the wiring ran from fuse box to relay to bull bar. Then at thebull bar I have a red and a black wire that I plug my current lights into.

So my question is: Would I be able to plug the new HID lights into the red and black wires or do I need to run a whole new set of wires?

 

[BrianDye]

Naw man i love talkin haha specially when im helpin someone out, but yeah literally just switch lights, the red and black wires from the HIDs to the offroad harness you have now

 

[dothedeww]

Alright...sounds good.

Would the 15amp fuse still be suffcient? Andthe wiring harness wouldnt melt or anything?

 

[BrianDye]

That should be good, the HIDs use a little more than half the power of a halogen. (35w compared to 55/65w)

 

[dothedeww]

Alright, ive got my passenger HID fixed..turned out another bad ballast...all fixed though.

they did it for free

 

[MonsterGarage]

ahem.

 

[MonsterGarage]

When I turn on my High beams they are halogen. The low beams are HID. But I definitly only have 1 bulb, I have done bulb work before on my truck. Even the peopel at the shop said its a dual-filliment bulb with HID lows and halogen highs.

Ignore my first post. (Lost the quote.)

There is such a thing as and HID kit that uses an HID capsule for the low beams and has a halogen bulb right next to it for the highs. This is contained on a single bulb base.

If this is what he has, then this makes sense to me and the rest of you that are saying he is wrong could be confusing the matter.

 

[dothedeww]

That is exactly what I am saying. Thank you..haha. I knew i only had 1 bulb..and everyone was confusing me.