That looks really really bad dude...

its a hid bulb Thrown into your stock headlight's

Are u running this on your stock wires?

if so, expect them to Be fried Very soon..

And warrenty will not cover THAT!

u need to do a retro the right way

Hidplanet.com is your friend..

its not cheap, it is costing me like 1400bucks, But it will be worth it

 

I don't want people to think that an HID retrofit is ungodly expensive.

It's not cheap, but if you do the work yourself and you really shop around, a retrofit doesn't have to cost more than $500. When you are talking about $1400 price tags for a retrofit, it's because you're paying labor (which is not cheap... a good retrofitter will charge about 500) and possibly for an extra set of headlights to use during the time when your stock headlights are being modified.

There is also a big difference in cost between projectors. Honda S2000 projectors typically cost $350, whereas a set of Acura TSX projectors typically run about $200. That's almost double the price and most people aren't going to notice the difference in light output.

If you want good pictures, park your car about 25 feet from the wall. It doesn't look as bad on the road because the light has a lot more room to scatter. It's still going to go all over the place.

You have to be careful with doing what you did. You said the HID bulbs and ballasts came off a Cadillac, which means that it most likely is a D2S or a D2R bulb, which is not made to fit a 9006 reflector housing. By modifying the bulb to fit the socket, you're not fixing the focal point of the HID arc.

At the least, you're going to have to get new bulbs when you fix your headlights. You can keep the ballasts, since that will be the more costly part of the HID kit, but you will probably have to buy a new pair of bulbs and retrofit a projector. I'd recommend something like ECE Valeos or TSX projectors because they're relatively cheap, so you could have a nice crisp looking headlight setup for about $300 more dollars. Plus, you'll get that twinkle/flicker that you see from Acuras and S2000s when they hit a bump in the road.

 

You can't really give an objective answer to this because HID conversion kits vary in quality. One kit could give pretty decent results while another could be crap. I've seen tCs with HID kits in their stock reflectors. Some look really bad and have tons of glare. Some just have very concentrated hotspots, but there isn't too much glare.

If you really care about the quality of the light output, I'd buy:

1) S2000 projectors.
2) Philips OEM D2S bulbs.
3) Philips/Hella Gen3 Ballasts.

If you have a hookup at a collision repair shop, you can get these parts dirt cheap. A lot of places like these take the broken headlights off cars that come in, sell the stuff on ebay and then put in new headlights when the car is fixed.

 

hey but wat r the signs of my wires being fried? i connected the wires from the kit to where the stock bulbs are supposed to go, i ve been driving with the hids on for like 4 nights in a row, and they were on for at least an hour and a half everyday. i think i heard that the wires will only fry if the wattage is too much, im not sure how much the tc can handle but i need to check wat the kit says on its output.wow, i thought if i wanted HIDs it would b a simple plug it in and ur done, but since i need all this stuff idk wat to do. i dont mind the glare of hids since while im driving on the road, the light only goes straight down to the floor, the only thing now that im afraid is the frying of wires.

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...er=asc&start=0

on this post its saying i can buy a wiring harness and it shouldnt burn everything but i would like to know which harness i should buy???

http://search.ebay.com/wiring-harnes...chiZQQsaprcloZ

 

you/'ll know the wires are fried when they stop working. I suggest you just take them out for the time being and gather all your parts. Theres already a guy on here thats done a Tc retro i think its in the tech section. But between here and hidplanet.com/forums you can get all the answers you need.

 

u can prob have a local shop make u a harness..

Call around..

But honestly, i would not turn on your light's, Even tho hids Draw less wattage then Halogen bubls, They Actually Draw a little more right when they start up, and THAT's when they will get fried... Frying anytihng thats part of the electrical System in your car is BAD. Esp on a brand new car.

So untill u have them hooked up right, i would not drive with them on..

 

yeah I can't even begin to imagine how expensive a wiring harness plus labor to put it in for the Tc is.

 

well i have a friend that has done it before, but do u think it will solve the problem of frying????

 

you never know until it happens...

 

You won't know it until your headlights mysteriously stop working. It will most likely burn out a switch or something. It could take months or even years, or it could happen after a week.

HID ballasts draw less power when they are running, but the startup can draw 20 amps or more depending on the ballasts you have. OEM ballasts tend to pull a lot of power. If you look at the wires going to your stock headlight connector, you'll notice they're really skinny. Incorrect wiring could potentially cause your whole headlight harness to melt within seconds. I've done it before.

What you need is a 9006 relay harness (for the tC). It should include a wire that connects directly to the battery (that wire should have a 30 amp in-line fuse attached), a 9006 connector for the stock harness (to pick the headlight on/off signal), 30 amp relays, and most won't have this, but I also recommend this:

A diode on the connector to the stock headlight harness, just to prevent current from ever going back into the stock headlight harness.

A 15-amp relay on the power connector to each ballast. Probably overkill.

It will probably end up costing you around $50 to buy one. Maybe $30-ish to do in parts if you just go to radio shack or something.

 

will this work for the relay harness?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harne...spagenameZWDVW

 

This is why I hate eBay. Bunch of idiots on there. Look at the sellers spelling...

It would work for the a relay harness yes. But is is damn expensive! $42.00 for that is crazy.

I'll sell you 2 relays, crimp connectors, and wire for $10 And I won't charge you $12.00 shipping.

 

oznium is the shizzle.

 

On the HID subject, I've got some IS300 fogs coming from Mr Bridges, and I'm thinking in a month or so that i might put HID in them as they are projectors. I am obsessive about yellow fogs. How low a K value can you get with HID bulbs ? Is there anything around the 2-3,000k range?

Also, my current fogs are wired straight into the battery, so I'll probably just use that wiring for the 9006 bulbs, would it be as simple as ballasts, bulbs and ooopsie daisy ?

 

Yep you can get that!

Or spray paint your headlights yellow

 

you can get 3000k hid's. i'm not sure if oznium has them but if not you can pick them up from xenith on this site. or you could always ebay it.

 

I can get it for you and I will beat prices

 

bam!

 

Xenith = Pwn3d!