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HID HELP PLEASE!!

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java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
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 ok so i hook my HID's up (from operatic) followed the instructions word for word and no luck.. no light at all, everytime i tuen on the lights i hear a "click" from the fuse box next to the battery.. can anyone with the same HID kit tell me if thats normal.. and also those little lights below my high beems come on when i try to turn on my head lights.. is that normal also?? thanks.. I just dont know what to do.. i checked double checked triple checked and now im hitting the threads.. please help meeeeee.... doumo arigatou gozaimashita!

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[#] Aug 17, 2007 07:50pm
Orin
that click means that the power is reaching the ballast, but you're not grounded. I had the same sound until I fixed it.

here is two trouble shooting tips.

1. check and make sure your + and - is correct.

2. check your ground wire.. if the metal is painted, it will not ground... get to an area of the car with no paint on it... bare metal will ground.

(check for an area of metal under a metal screw)

[#] Aug 17, 2007 07:54pm
java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
  • Godlike Advisor
Orin wrote:
that click means that the power is reaching the ballast, but you're not grounded. I had the same sound until I fixed it.

here is two trouble shooting tips.

1. check and make sure your + and - is correct.

2. check your ground wire.. if the metal is painted, it will not ground... get to an area of the car with no paint on it... bare metal will ground.

(check for an area of metal under a metal screw)


thanks orin ill try that when i get home.. so

1. move my ground to an area with no paint

and

2. my positive and negative wires might be switched???? as in manufacture defect?? possible??



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[#] Aug 17, 2007 07:57pm
Orin
java09 wrote:
2. my positive and negative wires might be switched???? as in manufacture defect?? possible??



I'm not implying that there is any defect in Operatic's product... sometimes it's easy to mismatch a negative and positive connection, just switch and see if it helps.

My Scion has some wires in it that are color coded backwards
[#] Aug 17, 2007 08:05pm
java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
  • Godlike Advisor
 my bad i wasnt implying that operatics products are defective i jsut meant as in a harmless mistake that i can fix by switching the wires.. the thing is that the positive wire is much longer than the neg.. i gess i hope thats the problem though!



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[#] Aug 17, 2007 08:07pm
Orin
hopefully it's just the ground, that's an even easier fix

[#] Aug 17, 2007 08:10pm
java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
  • Godlike Advisor
 even better! thanks Orin. you're the man!

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[#] Aug 17, 2007 08:19pm
java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
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 tried everything and still nothing... i dont know what it could be anymore???

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[#] Aug 18, 2007 01:20am
vastano1
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New York, US
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 u followed the instructions that operatic sent u...step by step?

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[#] Aug 18, 2007 01:24am
Vicious
Orlando
Florida, US
  • El Chupacabra
 Positive and negative wire wtf? o_O Only the red wire should be going to the battery.. the black wire is the ground wire. Everything else is pretty much self explanatory..




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[#] Aug 18, 2007 04:53am
java09
Honolulu
Hawaii, US
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 bump.. ok so i got the new kit in today and now i have a better problem then the last time.. the bulbs dont fit and the pattern on the back appears to be different than stock and also the kit is different than the one in the instructions.. does anyone have a kit where there is a neg and pos wire hanging off the ballasts? need help because again i cant get them to work and i took four years of electronics and high school.. which i know was a while ago but still, i think i should be able to figure this out and here i am doing this again....

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[#] Aug 23, 2007 03:51am

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