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Joined: Mar 2009
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From: South GA
I bought a Xenon Lightining system to replace the stock bulbs in my 2008 dodge ram 1500. After replace everything, did not work at all. NO LIGHT. All wires are connected and the only doubt I had is where to connect the red and black because on my truck wires shows black in the middle, white and blue in one side and white and green in the other side.I tried to switch back an forth those white wires and still did not work. Any help ?
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From: South GA
If you know what headlight socket number you have such as a 9006 then you can go to ebay and buy them. I recently bought two H4 sockets for the HID setup I'm doing on my bike
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Joined: May 2012
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From: Pennsyltucky
Ok, I'm closer to tracking down why I'm still getting the LAMP OUT warning, but it's confusing.
The lights are working fine (still no high beams, but I'll tackle that later), but the LAMP OUT won't go away.
What I've found:
- The passenger side resistors are doing their job and getting hot to the touch
- The driver side resistors are ice cold *BUT* still completing a circuit! If I disconnect their ground (or +), the lights start strobing.
Any one have any ideas what's going on? With the harness I have, the resistors are wired into the blue plug that clips into the OEM 9007 socket.
So it's weird that they are completing a circuit but not getting warm, and apparently not replicating the factory amount of resistance.
The lights are working fine (still no high beams, but I'll tackle that later), but the LAMP OUT won't go away.
What I've found:
- The passenger side resistors are doing their job and getting hot to the touch
- The driver side resistors are ice cold *BUT* still completing a circuit! If I disconnect their ground (or +), the lights start strobing.
Any one have any ideas what's going on? With the harness I have, the resistors are wired into the blue plug that clips into the OEM 9007 socket.
So it's weird that they are completing a circuit but not getting warm, and apparently not replicating the factory amount of resistance.
At this point is where you would probably want to get a spare set of resistors, as well as double check them like I had mentioned if they are similar Ebay type. Gold heat sinks and the wires are crimped, not actually soldered like they should be.
Are you saying both lights work fine even though one resistor is stone cold ? That to me would indicate a bad resistor set on one side which would give you the lamp out. Can you switch known good resistor (mark it somehow) to other side ? Does it continue to get hot as normal or does it now stay stone cold ?
I love my lights don't get me wrong... but if I woulda know they were going to be such a headache.. I would not have made the switch. Hopefully all the bugs are ironed out of mine, and I do love them.. but I would almost try to shave an angry bears *** than have to go through it all over again ! hahaha
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Joined: Jan 2013
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Hid resistor issue
I'm new to this forum and have been looking at this thread and I ordered a resistor harness recommended on weedahoe's page. I got the new harness and it has 2 plugs on the harness but I only have one plug, my old bulb plug, so I have no idea where the other resistor plug goes?? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. The kit is a 55watt h13 10k DDM tuning kit
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From: South GA
Ok, so one if them connects to the drivers side headlight plug and then the HID harness plugs into it
The other one plugs into the pass side headlight plug and nothing gets plugged into the other end of it. Just zip tie it up and out of the way along with anything else during your install
The other one plugs into the pass side headlight plug and nothing gets plugged into the other end of it. Just zip tie it up and out of the way along with anything else during your install