I got a pair of dual beam HIDs from vvme and installed them in the headlights and single beam for the fogs. They worked fine at first except the driver side fog which you would turn on it would flicker for a second and go off so i put another ballast in and it did the same thing. Well tonight i turned them on and now both fog lights do the same thing and while i was looking at them one of the headlights decided to just quit. Anyone have any ideas whats wrong?

 

i have the same problem, mine dont go off, but it seems if i turn them all on at the same time, my battery doen\sn't have enough juice to power all of them on... i am going to upgrade my battery soon and see if that helps

 

what temperature are you running? hid bulbs take longer to reach full power and temperature, this is a common problem that happens when you turn them on and off without giving them time to warm up and cool down, and you can very easily burn the bulb or the ballast up. steve0914 i suggest you turn on the foglights first then about ten minutes later turn the lights on and when you turn them off give them about ten minutes before you turn them back on. i learned all that from my friend who thought it was cool to turn them on and off real fast til they heated up and started flickering in attempt to pull people over, but then they would just turn off like you are experiencing but then would come on after about ten minutes of letting them cool off. he recently replaced it and told me he was doing all that and they were working fine and advised me to do the same since i am in the market for an HID conversion kit, not saying thats your problem, just trying to help out.

 

is your car running if not, that might be the case. I cant turn on my headlights and fogs at the same time.

 

Thanks for the help guys, i need a new battery for it anyways so i'll try that i havent driven the car in 2 months so that could also be the problem also.

 

forgot to mention this happend to me if they flicker they will work just not gettin the power to stay on. I thought the same till I ran the car the next morning all worked fine

 

Damn. Seems like alot of trouble for som HIDs.

 

its not just have to have the car running really so the alternator recharges the battery

 

Cool. I'm thinking about getting the Projector and 8000k HID package from Stang Mods. For some reason American Muscle tells you not to mix the two together.