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DDM Tuning HID kit. Intermittent HL
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<blockquote data-quote="03yllwguy" data-source="post: 16284600" data-attributes="member: 13592"><p>Here is my strong opinion on the matter which others will disagree.</p><p></p><p>You have an expensive muscle car that came with a $50 HID kit from China which is now not working. Is it the bulb? Is it the ballast? Is it the wiring? Who knows.</p><p></p><p>I had a DDM kit that fried my stock wiring harness and cost me $400 to repair with a new harness due to overdraw. I junked it and never considered using cheap crap again.</p><p></p><p>At a minimum, you could start by putting stock bulbs in the housings affixed to the stock harness to ensure your stock wiring works and then start trouble shooting backwards (swap components side to side to see if the results replicate themselves). You also cannot visually see if HID bulbs are burnt out.</p><p></p><p>IF you must have HID style lighting in your stock housings, I highly recommend either a Morimoto 2 Stroke LED 9007 replacement set which costs $120 from EBay seller LightWerks, or go back to stock.</p><p></p><p>BTW, as an electrician, it is my opinion that you should NEVER use a 55w bulb or HID system in our cars. The light output is negligible and the risk of excess heat is higher than I would accept.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, after trying both HID and LED in stock housing, I now run a retrofitted Morimoto Xenon system with a fused relay system that uses hi/low 35w ballasts which I am quite happy with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="03yllwguy, post: 16284600, member: 13592"] Here is my strong opinion on the matter which others will disagree. You have an expensive muscle car that came with a $50 HID kit from China which is now not working. Is it the bulb? Is it the ballast? Is it the wiring? Who knows. I had a DDM kit that fried my stock wiring harness and cost me $400 to repair with a new harness due to overdraw. I junked it and never considered using cheap crap again. At a minimum, you could start by putting stock bulbs in the housings affixed to the stock harness to ensure your stock wiring works and then start trouble shooting backwards (swap components side to side to see if the results replicate themselves). You also cannot visually see if HID bulbs are burnt out. IF you must have HID style lighting in your stock housings, I highly recommend either a Morimoto 2 Stroke LED 9007 replacement set which costs $120 from EBay seller LightWerks, or go back to stock. BTW, as an electrician, it is my opinion that you should NEVER use a 55w bulb or HID system in our cars. The light output is negligible and the risk of excess heat is higher than I would accept. FWIW, after trying both HID and LED in stock housing, I now run a retrofitted Morimoto Xenon system with a fused relay system that uses hi/low 35w ballasts which I am quite happy with. [/QUOTE]
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