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#1 ·
Ok, so I am going to order new headlights for my car to replace the ugly stocky ones. I have a sunset pearl eclipse, so I think the black gloss ones from ACI (These) will look good, as what what ive seen is what most people around here have goten.

I know the halos (and projectors) kinda suck, and most people gett replacement CCFLs, but Im planning to get these instead (I think it was DejectedAngle who got them)

But my real question is, now that ACI has coloured halos available, are they any better? I also thing th eorange halos look pretty sweet but in some pictures (maybe its the running lights or low beams, idk) they seem really yellow ish.

I want to get these ordered this week as im heading to the states so I can pick them up at my girl friends house the week after Xmas.

Thanks! :D
 
#42 ·
My grounds? I dont think anything had to grounded (to metal?) Everything just plugged into something haha Also was there a right and left bulb? I forgot to mention that I didnt really allign them yet (I finished installing a 3 am :D) but there wasnt really a clear crisp line on the garage door like i have seen. I hope the lenses wernt upside down or something....
 
#43 ·
There are no left and right bulbs, but which housing it is in will affect whether the filament needs to be up or down. Also the lenses in those are pretty bad so don't expect perfection in getting a crisp cutoff which is why I replaced mine before I installed them. Unless the lenses were put in backwards with the curved edge facing the engine, they are in properly. Get them aimed as best as you can (it's a pain in the ass) and see where you stand.
 
#44 ·
Oh I thought you had a relay harness, that might be a reason it's doing it. Ours cars were meant to have a single bulb for highs & lows. You changed it to separate bulbs for highs and lows, & the low beam is now HID. Highs are halogen so they are instant on & off, when you turn on your highs the low beam comes off. If you were just flashing the highs the HIDs turn off, & then the next second they try to turn on again. It's a large draw of amps & maybe the ballast isn't getting enough power to re arc the bulb, so it doesn't come back on. Just maybe though.

It could also be a bad ballast, try switching the ballasts, over & see if the problem follows it.

Other aftermarket ballasts have been known to fail to power on when it is extremely cold, which I don't think it is, is it?

Also do you have the DRLs disabled? I didn't quite get what you said at first.
 
#45 ·
Maybe I dont have the relay harness... What does it look like haha... :/ And no its not very cold, I live in Canada but come one, my polar bear isnt even wearing his jacket! :biggrin:


There are no left and right bulbs, but which housing it is in will affect whether the filament needs to be up or down. Also the lenses in those are pretty bad so don't expect perfection in getting a crisp cutoff which is why I replaced mine before I installed them. Unless the lenses were put in backwards with the curved edge facing the engine, they are in properly. Get them aimed as best as you can (it's a pain in the ass) and see where you stand.
I did a lens swap to better lenses... :/ But perhaps I dont have them facing right, but to me i think it seemed they could really only go in one way... Ill maybe try to get a pic of them, it is pretty cramped in there though...
 
#46 · (Edited)
Guess I forgot to update, but lately they have been working fine, so idk what the deal was before. Still have to resplice the right side halos though...

And we have had some really heavy rain and no leaking so I sealed them up well! :)

Edit: guess i spoke too soon, went out to go to the bank today and when I was behind a black truck i could see the reflection that my drivers side low beam wasnt on :(
 
#52 ·
:twitch: Jeez i didnt know I was going to need all this extra wiring... So with the relay I have now, my high beams wont work when its installed?

A new HID place just opened up in my city (the first one as far as I know) so maybe I should just take my car/lights into them and let them sort if out, but then its probably going to cost a lot of money for them to do it... :/
 
#53 ·
Also, Ive noticed when driving on the Highways at night using my brights, when I need to switch to low beams for meeting a car, it takes a long time to the lowbeams to kick back in and light up pretty slowly which is pretty sketchy for a few seconds driving with no light... will this harness fix the low beams "reaction time"?
 
#54 · (Edited)
No as the car is originally low & high in one bulb, & with the aftermarket headlights it splits into two.

The harness you have has 1 H13 male connector that plugs in to the cars H13 female connector (usually) on the drivers side. This tells the harness when to power the ballasts (when you turn your headlights on).

To keep your high beams, you can make that high beam splitter up top yourself. You'll only need one since the (usually) passengers side H13 female connector is left disconnected. You can just plug that in to the H13 male coming from the headlight & the high beam should work fine.

You just need 2 female H13 connectors, 1 male H13 connector. You can usually get them with wires already on them, just cut & join the appropriate wires together, use some waterproof heat shrink & it should be fine.
Plug the cars female connector into the 1 male connector, harness & headlight male connectors plug into the 2 female connectors.

The harness will help it a bit, but not anything that will stop that moment of darkness. I'm not sure if the relay you have stops the lows from turning off when the highs are activated. Can't do much about the warm up speed with aftermarket ballasts, well there's like 2 out now that I think come close to OEM warm speeds.

My harness keeps the low beams on when the high beams are activated since I have a bixenon projector so the only thing moving is the shield instead of the light. I want to say yours should too, but test it out first.
 
#56 ·
You might be able to if you do some custom wiring, but it would be a lot of work as the stock wiring alternates power between them. On the stock H13 bulbs, the bulbs have two filaments and when you switch from low beam to high to transfers power from one filament to the other. This works great and results in no down time because the bulb never turns off. With the aftermarket projectors the car still thinks it only has one bulb.
 
#57 ·
The harness I use now: Bi-xenon: 'MotoControl 9008/H13 - Relay Harnesses from The Retrofit Source Inc

It keeps the low beams on when the high beam is activated, since I have a bixenon projector there is no actual high beam turning on, just the projector shield moving.

This in theory should work for you, but you'll still need the high beam splitter for the drivers side.

Another way is having a diode between the low & high beam signal. I've seen it done on H4 cars, you could try this. Diode from high beam lead going to low beam lead, on the stock harness. Diode like this: 6ampdiodes - 6 Amp Diode - Generic

You'll still need a high beam splitter on the drivers side though lol.

Passenger side can just plug like normal.


Both choices SHOULD keeps your low beams on when high beams are activated.
 
#59 · (Edited)
Because you still need to send power to the high beam. Your headlights still have the wiring they came with when you bought them right? ie the connector with the, I believe it was light blue, red, & white wires, low, high, & ground. LOW is not used because you have HIDs in there, the HIGH beam still needs power, that's what you're wanting right? So you need a splitter so you can connect BOTH your relay harness AND high beam into your car. Your car only has 1 headlight connector on each side, you need 2 on the drivers side because there's two things needing to be connected to the car.

If the relay harness is installed correctly the drivers side OEM headlight connector should be connected to the relay harness, but the passengers side OEM headlight connector is left alone or connected to the headlight. So there's no need to split it into 2 connectors like on the drivers side.

That harness would fix everything without needing diodes. You turn your high beams on inside your car & your low beams will stay on. But you'll still need a high beam splitter on the drivers side. The relay harness & headlight both need power.
 
#60 ·
AHH ok thanks for clearing things up!

Well both low beams have been working perfectly for a couple months... untill this week! :( Now its the driver`s side low beam that won't come on, even when I try my trick that worked to fix the passengers' side low beam before (turn lights off and on/ turn high beams on and off would usually allow the non-working low beam to flicker on)

It just stopped coming on. Hopfully I can hook this relay up soon and get everything fixed!! These light have been so much trouble but look great when they actually work!!
 
#61 ·
Ok so I went and saw a guy in my city and got my lights finally fixed. I had one bulb and one ballast blown, guess they were just cheep. Ended up replacing everything with Morimoto components which was a lot more $$$ than I would have liked to spend but whatever its all working now! The lights are so much brighter and way more visibility! Ill have to post pictures to my ride thread!
 
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