HID flickering fix.

[joseph]

UPDATE: get the kit from this guy, plug and play, no capacitor needed: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-X...4935QQtcZphoto (lighting623)



I bought the Goldeneye HID kit for the 9006 low beam, and I had that flickering that many experience, so I did a search and found out about the capacitor needed to fix that problem as you can see here: Help with capacitor and diode install for HID.

The problem happens because the computer senses a 35W draw as opposed to a 55W draw and goes into diagnostic mode trying to figure out what's happening (I'm no expert, so feel free to elaborate)

If you buy any HID kit, you will need the relay wire harness to draw power straight from the battery as it will not work if the power is draw from the 9006 sockets.




The passenger side 9006 socket will be used to activate the relay switch of the HID harness to turn on your lights, but you will need to add a capacitor to that relay to fix the Wattage difference, (or you can use the marker lights wire to activate the switch and turn on your low beams, but you will lose the stock switch function of having marker lights on only).

Here is the capacitor you need, you can get it a radio shack for $1.50 or so (get 2, 1 as a reserve)


Next and final step is to attach the capacitor to the relay of the harness kit that came with your HID kit, you need to locate terminal 86, which is Positive, and terminal 85, which is Negative, then you need to connect the long wire (Pos.) of the capacitor to terminal 86, and the short wire (Neg.) of the capacitor to terminal 85.
You can do that the easy way like I did, or try to solder it to the prongs, or the wires leading to the 85 and 86 terminals, it's up to you, but the way I did it allows quick and painless replacement of the capacitor if it burns out.









Here's the end result, very worthy of the time, money and effort.
Pictures taken with no flash, very dark outside.
Sylvania ST (stock housing)


HID 4300K (stock housing)


Same HID kit with my projector headlights:







Final advice on HID lights from personal experience:
The lower the K, the brighter the lights will be, so 4300K is perfect, very bright and very white, 3000k is even brighter but is yellow, good for fog lights if you live in a place when it rains/snow a lot or is very foggy.
If you want some blue 6000K is ok too but it won't be as bright as 4300K.
Do not do high beam HID's, it won't be of any use, it takes a good 5 seconds for the HID bulbs to become bright and work, so if you do high beam HID, you won't be able to flash anymore, plus considering how bright low beams HID's are, you won't have any need for high beam HID's.

[joseph]

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[bookeem]

clean simple write up, great job joseph, im sure this will help out a lot of others..

[DaILLestWun]

This still looks like too much for me since I not electically smart. My HID's came in today and I think i might take it to a stereo shop with a print out of this DIY and see what they say.

Or is there any member local to me that may know how to do this?

[bookeem]

ahh u can do this one jimbo, its even easier than it looks man..

[tezzer]

Thanks for the help guys, just got my HID kit in today, installed and all good, thanks to this write up, wow, what a nice difference. Did anyone have an issue getting the lights to "sit" correctly in the housing? Seems like mine didn't lock into place like the stock headlights. Any advice on that would be great. I would hate for them to vibrate out!! Thanks

[bookeem]

wheres the pics tezzer, kit name, kelvin output etc?

it will help others looking to buy a kit..

[DaILLestWun]

I'm just going to take it to a shop. i'm going right after work. That way I have a lifetime warranty on the install.

[bookeem]

cool, cant wait to see the pics....

[FloridaRT]

I'm just going to take it to a shop. i'm going right after work. That way I have a lifetime warranty on the install.

Would that be the infamous "limited lifetime warranty"?????

LOL, I just had to say it.......................

One of my pet peeves.

Good luck,

Bob

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[gameover]

great info. would it be possible for you to link me to where to purchase the relay kit. if not a link, could you tell me where i can get the relay harness at. it would really make it easier since i have no clue about wiring. from the pictures, im pretty sure i can tackle the install. thanks.

[hemiboy29]

Well, did you know you can use the factory socket w/out using a relay?????? ( i hope i get points for this lol) you just have to inverse the polarity on the lights meaning you pull the two wires out of the hid socket and switch them & put them back in...... then i guess you can add the capacitor or resistor to make it read 55W.....

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