Hello everyone new to the board had a 2002 dodge dakots r/t with 212,000 miles on her and it was time to upgrade my question to you all is i just installed hid's in my fogs and headlights lows not highs and my problem is when i start my truck up and turn the lights on the driver side light flickers bout for 20 secs and then stays on..... I used the jumper cable that my buddy had at his shop and still does it....has anyone else ran into this problem...funny thing is if i turn my lights on and then start my truck it doesnt do it very weird.....And is there another way to change the bulbs without pulling the grille off that was a pain in the butt
Thank you for any advice and will be posting pics soon

 

Did you run the plug and play capacitor? If not that could be it, or it could be a defective bulb or ballast. Where did you buy these from? I would contact the seller and then troubleshoot.

Wes

 

A buddy of mine installed them he owns his own shop
and installs them daily and told me he never see it like that
and yes he installed that jumper power thing to very weird
he told me he was gonna call some ppl and lemme know what he can do
so I figured I can git on here and see if anyone has come across this problem
and he changed ballast and bulb still does it

 

Its prolly going to need a capicator. Most of our hid kits need them for the Dodge. But its kind of weird why one does it and the other does not.


On another note, It does take a few seconds for the hid bulbs to illuminate to their fullest extent. If you say it does it for 20 sec and then stops..... after that do the bulbs act like they should? if so then this would be completely normal. Hid bulbs are a lot different than standard bulbs.

 

I'll tell my buddy bout that today.as far as the blinking
it's like a strobe blink for like 20 secs hopefully the capicator will stop that

 

Sounds like you need the capacitors. They are also refered to anti flicker capacitors. Try a google search. There will be lots of info about them. I also think you can buy them individually from hidxtra.com. Just be careful because if you hook them up the wrong way I do believe that you can fry them.

Wes