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Old Sep 23, 2008 | 04:35 AM
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So i ordered some 5000k's thursday (got em today!!! now thats fast shipping!!!), and i installed them...well i have this harness left over, do i need to put it on? the lights work fine without it but i just want to be sure so i dont mess anything up!!

Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:01 AM
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Unless Clifford put an extra harness in by accident, something is wrong. Did you have another one just like that one?
PM Clifford and check it out.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:04 AM
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id used it instead of frying ur factory harness...
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:06 AM
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i just didnt know it would have another harness, when i put hid's on a stealth i owned it was just the bulbs and ballasts, plug n play. no extra harness.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:07 AM
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well i dont see how they could work without that harness. since it has the new plugs for the ballasts, the relay, and power and ground wires. it's basically the entire harness itself lol.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:11 AM
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the kit for my scion came with bulbs, ballasts, a set of wires, and that harness...i plugged the set of wires into the oem headlight socket thing...and they worked
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 01:46 PM
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When a set of hid's start up the draw is way over stock wire capacity for a few seconds and can melt your stock wires. Using the supplied harness and drawing power straight from the battery isolates this spike and only uses your stock wires as a switch through the relay to turn the hids on and off or switch to high beams.
Many hid sellers will tell you that it is not needed but its your call.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 02:05 PM
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The harness that you paid for already is way cheaper than replacing your stock wiring when your HIDs burn it out.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 02:16 PM
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please put this in at your earliest convenience!! like before you use your HL's again. this kit came with this relay and harness for a damn good reason. if it didn't need it, it wouldn't have come with it.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 02:42 PM
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yea you def. should use that relay that was supplied, there's also an inline fuse should anything go wrong you won't melt wires or even worse cause a fire.
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 02:43 PM
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Yes you need to put that harness in there. It is there for exactly what sdsnybny said. Your HID kit is going to pull more current on start up. Yeah your factory wire will hold it for a little while. But the harness makes it safe. Keeps the draw off your factory wiring.
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well guess what? i dont even get how to hook it up. it has 2 male connectors, 1 female connector, 1 positive cable, 1 negative cable. now i know where the positive and negative go but what about the 2 male and 1 female connectors???????????????
Old Sep 23, 2008 | 05:10 PM
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2 male go to the ballasts, female goes to driver side oem harness.. positive battery and neg ground..
Old Sep 24, 2008 | 04:28 AM
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alright thanks, i have it all hooked up now.
Old Sep 26, 2008 | 03:46 AM
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http://www.mobilehid.com/support.htm

this is your how to, make sure you did it right, can melt factory wires other wise and could cause fire.....
Old Sep 27, 2008 | 12:17 PM
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i'm still confused on how they worked before without the harness...
Old Sep 27, 2008 | 04:02 PM
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because i just plugged the ballast into the oem headlight plug....lol

maybe that harness just protects everything in the LONG run
Old Sep 27, 2008 | 07:59 PM
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oh... i'm still a bit lost since i wouldnt have thought the plug fit
oh, well
Old Sep 29, 2008 | 04:49 PM
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it actually didnt have a plug, it had positive and negative prongs that fit into the female plugs.
Old Sep 29, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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if you bought from the same mobilehid that i did then you should of had instructions... no? maybe i was just special
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