ive had aftermarket headlights for a while...not HIDs, just an H1 bulb - recently my low beam on the driver side stopped working but its not the bulb, it seems to be the wiring harness that is fried but its just the low beam side, i can use my high/low beam headlights on the high beam side of that harness and it works fine - the dealership ordered the wrong part and they said the only other thing is the main harness which is 1500 dollars :-\
i know the entire thing is not bad so what i can do to get it rectified.

even worse my inspection is out so until this is fixed i cant get that taken care of.
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I had a set of Nokya bulbs in my car a while ago and it burned up my harness. i spent like $20 for new harness and they work just fine now.

 

buy another harness at any auto store and wire it in

fyi, it's the bulbs that did it

 

the harness i got quoted for at the dealership was 30 but when i looked at it i told him it was the wrong part cause it didnt look like what i was after
it looked too short, and the one im talking about branches off into a few places

 

yea its not the first time ive had trouble with it, i was able to fix it the first time by cutting the wire back

 

y cant u do that again this time?

 

cause the first time it was the part that connected to the H1 bulb, the cable that hooks up to the car or whatever, looks like the main harness is messed up. the connections from the high/low beams are fine and both work on the high beam side of that cable but not the low...and thats what i need fixed

 

http://www.littodevilperformance.com...9951_small.jpg
the cable thats connected to the lightbulb in that picture -
the low beam connection on mine is bad, thats not my car but you get the jist of what im saying

 

Why not do one of the following?

1) Throw the bulbs out and get the proper wattage bulb for the connection

or

2) Make a relay harness so it never happens again?

 

this is lame..
LET him pay 1500$$$$$$ I don't understand what he is asking..

 

I have this same problem too, i'm guessing.

The ironic part is I ordered a hid relay harness a few days ago, and is arriving this coming week >.< !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I need to figure out what to do.

The fuse for the passenger side low beam blew up. I replaced it, and low beam still won't turn on.

I tested the ballast that was on that side, by putting it on the driver's side. Works perfect. Tested the bulb as well, works fine.

So its definitely the wiring harness of sorts ;(

 

well i took it by the dealership and they said they could try and repair the low beam side for 150 bucks, i would have done this as well but apparently you cant just run out and by that connector that it uses so....either i figure out how to take it apart without screwing anything up and cut the wire back or i shell out 150+ to have them fix it

 

ouch thats gotta suck...

 

Soo.... i'm guessing just trace the wires from the headlight back to where the wire is blown up?

 

yea pretty much and its basically a guess at that point - in my situation im hoping its fried right at the the connector (same as my first go round with this situation)
just strip the jacket and run it back thru

i wonder if i could order that connector tho...?????

 

You know what I just noticed.

I might be in luck.

This is the relay harness I ordered.



It only uses 1 oem connector to activate. After that it just draws power directly from the battery.

I happen to have only 1 good working oem connector. The driver's side.

For some reason I thought the realy harness I bought required 2 oem connections.

WOOT!

But I still want to fix the connecter on the passenger side =p

 

yea well i dont have HID's so i dont think that will work for me, my headlights have the stock headlight connector that hooks up ot the harness

 

I wonder if you can just get that relay harness, and replace the ballast plugs with 9006 plugs instead.

Hmmmmm......It should work. But I don't know if you want to go through all that.

 

that might be a last resort, im gonna call the dealership and see if i can order that connector

 

Let us know what happens.