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Old Jun 23, 2007 | 01:30 AM
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i just bought a hid conversion kit i wired it all up, never toughed the bulbs and i went to turn them on and nothing is happening, i just hear a little click and thats it. i heard about a burn in time for some lights do i need to do that and wouldn't i need some light to burn them in. any help would be great thank you
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 02:25 AM
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What do you mean burn? Like, set on fire? Whoaa.. easy. You don't need to burn nothin. Check all connections and rewire them. If you have installed a relay harness, the click is coming from the relay itself. If not, maybe from the ballasts? Where did you get your kit from?
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 02:26 AM
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also wondering what kit you are running, HID's are an easy install, just gotta make sure everything is wired right...
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 04:11 AM
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i figured out that the click is coming from a relay but not any in my harness it is the hlp relay in my fuse box, but i pluged in my old bulbs (non hid) and they work so my system is getting power. i bought the kit from an ebay shop from a guy with good feedback i was trying to buy them from this clifford guy that has a shop in arizona and everyone says his are great but he never returned my call. i unplugger the bulb and ran a current test on the wires comming out of hte ballest... no current, does that mean the ballest is bad... has that ever happened that someone gets 2 nonfunctioning ballests.
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 04:15 AM
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take the plug that goes into the ballast, reverse it and bingo!
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 08:47 AM
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well i actually tried that as a random last resort idea and it worked whats weird is the seller sent me pics telling me to try that but his pics were the same way mine was set up but i flipped it anyway and it worked. im guessing you had` the same problem?
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 01:00 PM
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Yes this happened to me aswell...sometimes you have too reverse the polarity with HIDs on certain cars...
Old Jun 23, 2007 | 07:51 PM
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hmm, mine just went out this morning for some reason.... after about an hour of trouble shooting and whatnot I unhooked them checked all the fuses, cleaned em up a bit and waited a few minutes-- plugged em back in and all of a sudden bingo- worked just like new. Pretty strange.

I had 2 take my dads car to work this morning because it was dark out.
Old Jun 24, 2007 | 06:16 AM
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its the reverse polarity of the hid kit, a good pricey kit wouldn't have that problem.
Old Jun 24, 2007 | 06:24 AM
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I learned something new today.
Old Jun 24, 2007 | 06:41 AM
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so did i
lemon sno cones are nasty as hell.
oh yeah and teh ballast thin
Old Jul 12, 2007 | 09:45 PM
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I missed your phone calls sorry man. I hope you got it figured out but it sounds like you had a bad ground. Try grounding to the battery if you are still having problems.
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