ouch that sucks........I hate electrical issues.....somedays the simple stuff is right there in your face......been there done that.

 

Wish I would've seen this earlier, I love the electrical aspects of cars.

FYI, always check fuses 1st and get yourself a DMM and meter wires coming out of that harness/connector, if you don't have 12v then its probably a fuse.

Always check for the cheapest solution first, fuse ($0.29), relay/relay harness($15), stealership solution ($150), main wiring harness....$1500

 

yea the dealer wanted 150 just to look at it
went to a mom and pop shop and he printed up the wiring diagram, walked outside and pulled the fuse

ran to autozone and popped in a new one...ive done all my mods myself but this really ____es me off

 

You hate it but think about how much you have learned.

You admitted yourself you don't know much about electrical stuff but you just learned the most valuable thing when dealing with electronics.

Fuses are there to interrupt the power to a circuit when the flow of current exceeds safe levels.

What that means bro is please switch to an HID lighting system or put back in your stock bulbs. You are running the risk of really needing that main harness. Hopefully you put in a fuse with the same amperage as the one you pulled out. That is only a temporary fix until those bulbs draw too much current again.

 

thats the thing, im not running HIDs, its just a standard H1 bulb - regular yellow looking color

 

That's what i'm getting at. Is it your stock H1 halogen bulb? Is it one of the sylvania types that you get from an autozone? If the problem was a stock issue Toyota would have taken care of that, assuming you are within warranty. Also HIDs draw less current from your harness so that would be beneficial to this issue never arising.

Perhaps you don't want HIDs but the bulbs last much longer and you don't have to get some obnoxious color, ou can get as close to pure white with a tint of blue. For the time and effort you spent troubleshooting this one problem a $100 HID kit would have solved it and you wouldn't have even known but that fuse would have still needed to be replaced first

 

yea i guess you're right
ill look into it - im ready to trade it in for a g35 but with todays economy ill be stuck with it for a bit longer :-\

 

$20,000 more for a nicer version of the maxima huh...good decision

 

hmm.. owner's manual would've helped too..

along with just popping the fuse panel box cover and seeing that yeah.. each individual headlight bulb does have its own fuse

and whoever told you it couldn't be a fuse needs to be shot.. that's the VERY FIRST THING you check.

 

i am having this same problem but in my case i had retrofitted acura tsx hid in my car using the stock harness so my hid stared acting funny(0nly one headlight would work) so i dediced to rip out the tsx hid and buy new hid and now noting works. i checked the fuses and they seem good. the new hid do not light up. im thinking if i buy this harness thing in the link it might work. if not i need to get my hand on some stockk bulbs and just plug tohose in to see if they work.
any advice