Aftermarket hid installation
- Thread starter Johnsly
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You shouldn't have to wire anything to the battery at all. The ballast just goes between the car harness and the hid bulbs. Here's a decent video how to. Hid Kit Installation - YouTube
http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DDM-HID-Kit-Slim-Ballast-35W-or-55W
Been running in headlights (about a year) and fog lights (a few months). Plug and play. No relays, whats in the picture is all you need. I don't have DRL.
I thought only Canadian LSes had daytime running lights? Not sure how aftermarket HIDs would perform with DRLs.
Been running in headlights (about a year) and fog lights (a few months). Plug and play. No relays, whats in the picture is all you need. I don't have DRL.
I thought only Canadian LSes had daytime running lights? Not sure how aftermarket HIDs would perform with DRLs.
scjmc
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My HIDs flicker whenever my alternator goes out (happens all the time). They are very sensitive to voltage, I dont think they would work as DRLs. I think that the output is dropped to 80% or something for DRL.
1LoudLS
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easy way to figure that out, hook them up like normal, and if they just flash and dont turn on, then add relays. get power from the fuse box under the hood instead of the battery, and use the bulb wires in the factory socket to trigger the relay coils.
if thats the case, then i doubt the HID's would even turn on, they would have to be wired to another source so that they would be on anytime the car was running. i would reccomend doing a similar thing for all 1st gen'ers so that the lows are on anytime that the brights are like all 2ng gens, so that you dont have a delay between switching the brights off and the lows warming back up. also flashing them on and off will reduce the lifespan on the bulbs.
jdmans101
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running 6k ddm tunung in my lows, work great and cheap. Dont need anything other than what it comes with.
1LoudLS
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BTW, here is one that i have not seen asked, is anybody running aftermarket hids, and not using Bulb Out Warning Eliminators?
i got a set when i ordered my HID's but never tried it without them hooked up to see if it would trigger the message.
i got a set when i ordered my HID's but never tried it without them hooked up to see if it would trigger the message.
I don't think there is a warning for the headlights. In any case, my old '00 has aftermarket HIDs and there is no warning (it's a V6).
I never received a "bulb out" warning light with my DDM's.
+1, no warning here either.
Lincoln Luebbe
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I had no warning on my 02 with HID kit either.
1LoudLS
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since you dont have a message center, does the 00 have a warning light or something in the cluster to tell you when a bulb burns out, or is that just a V8 only thing?
